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Description / Abstract:
Scope
The requirements of this Standard apply to power shears used to cut
metal by shearing, utilizing a
fixed lower knife(s) and a non-rotary, moving upper knife(s). This
Standard applies to those shears
commonly referred to as squaring, guillotine, gap, plate, pivot blade
(swing beam), and slitting
(non-rotary).
This Standard specifically excludes machines referred to as right
angle, alligator, cut to length,
crop, slitting (rotary), nibblers, portable hand tools, coil slitters,
rotary blade slitters, iron
workers, angle, bar, beam, channel, notching, rotary drum, flying, and
billet shears.