scope:

This standard contains the requirements for safety for the design and installation of stationary handling machines for feeding from the taking up of a post of melted glass out of the working bowl of a glass melting furnace through transport to delivery to a glass blower or to a forming machine for hollow glass. This standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to machines for feeding, when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseeable by the manufacturer (see clause 4). This standard specifies the appropriate technical measures to eliminate or reduce risks which can arise from these significant hazards. This standard does not deal with the exclusive feeding with shearers (shears) alone with the transport of the melted glass post by its own weight in free fall or by trueing (gob feeder, see prEN 13042-1). This document is not applicable to handling machines for feeding which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN.