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  • BS 2452:1954

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    Specification for electrically driven jib cranes mounted on a high pedestal or portal carriage (high pedestal or portal jib cranes)

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Withdrawn date:  02-08-2013

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  29-03-1954

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Cooperating organizations
    Foreword
    Specification
    1. Scope
    2. Information to be supplied with enquiry or order
    3. Information to be supplied by manufacturer
    4. Materials
    5. Service conditions
    6. Radius - Load indication
    7. Classification and duty
    8. Permissible stresses
    9. Slewing
    10. Wind (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    11. Stability
    12. Crane structure (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    13. Structural sections
    14. Minimum sections
    15. Jibs
    16. Struts, including jibs
    17. Plate girders
    18. Braced or lattice girders
    19. Working stresses in structure (excluding struts)
         (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    20. Joints
    21. Rivet spacing (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    22. Rivets and bolts (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    23. Fusion welding (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    24. Bolts, other than those used in crane structure,
         and set screws
    25. Supports for the slewing part of the crane
    26. Wire ropes
    27. Rope drums
    28. Rope pulleys
    29. Lifting hooks
    30. Shackles
    31. Overhauling weight
    32. Gearing
    33. Gear boxes
    34. Shafts and axles
    35. Keys and keyways
    36. Bearings
    37. Travelling wheels
    38. Carriage buffers
    39. Crane anchoring
    40. Guarding
    41. Lubrication
    42. Ladders and platforms
    43. Driver's cabin and machinery house
    44. Grabbing
    45. Brakes
    46. Electric braking
    47. Brake magnets
    48. Electric motors
    49. Controllers and resistors
    50. Controls
    51. Electrical protective gear
    52. Main, emergency and isolating switches
    53. Limit switches
    54. Cables and wiring
    55. Collector rings
    56. Main supply
    57. Wiring diagram
    58. Lighting
    59. Heaters
    60. Earthing
    61. Insulation
    62. Testing
    63. Painting
    64. Identification
    Appendices
    A. Information desirable to be supplied with enquiry
         of order
    B. Information to be supplied by manufacturer
    C. List of British Standards for materials and
         equipment to be used in the manufacture of cranes
    D. Load capacity of gears
    E. Factories Acts legislation affecting cranes in
         Great Britain
    F. Customary types of grabs
    G. Design of struts (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    Figures
    1-3. Types of high pedestal or portal jib cranes
    4. Clearance diagram
    5. Track rail
    Charts (Deleted by Amendment No.1)
    1. Maximum permissible axial stresses Fa
    2. Values of Fbc
    3. Values of K for steel to BS 15 and for Grade 15
         steel tubes to BS 1775
    4. Values of K for steel to BS 548
    5. Values of K for steel to BS 968 and for Grade 20
         steel tubes to BS 1775

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    Electrically driven cranes, of the level luffing, derricking or fixed radius types, used with hook or grab, (including \'wharf\' or \'dockside\' cranes). Structure and mechanisms, hoisting equipment: brakes, controls, motors, electrical protective gear. Testing of completed cranes. List of British Standards for suitable materials and equipment. See BS 2573.

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    Committee MHE/3/3
    Development Note Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, November 2007. (10/2007) Inactive for the new design. (02/2009)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Withdrawn

    Standards Referenced By This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    BS 5744:1979 Code of practice for safe use of cranes (overhead/underhung travelling and goliath cranes, high pedestal and portal jib dockside cranes, manually-operated and light cranes, container handling cranes and rail-mounted low carriage cranes)
    DEFSTAN 02-113/2(2010) : 2010 REQUIREMENTS FOR MECHANICAL HANDLING
    DEFSTAN 02-113/1(2005) : 2005 REQUIREMENT FOR MECHANICAL HANDLING
    BS 327:1964 Specification for power-driven derrick cranes
    BS 2799:1974 Specification for power-driven tower cranes for building and engineering construction
    BS 357:1958 Specification for power-driven travelling jib cranes (rail-mounted low carriage type)
    BS 466:1984 Specification for power driven overhead travelling cranes, semi-goliath and goliath cranes for general use
    BS 7333:1990 Specification for slewing jib cranes
    BS 6166-1:1986 Lifting slings Methods of rating
    BS 7262:1990 Specification for automatic safe load indicators

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