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Description / Abstract:
The entire code shall cover the mechanical hazards encountered
in the manufacture of rubberized fabrics, rubber tires, fire and
garden hose, footwear, molded rubber goods. Rubber belting,
reclaimed rubber, rubber solution and products made therefrom, and
miscellaneous rubber materials; shall cover the machines used in
breaking down, washing, milling, cutting, molding, and vulcanizing
of rubber, together with calendars, spreaders, coaters, and dryers,
and other machinery used in the manufacture of rubber sheeting;
special machines used in the manufacture of rubber tires included,
but spinning and weaving fabrics excluded.
On account of the broad field to be covered, it was decided by
the sectional committee to consider in this preliminary issue the
safe guarding of mills and calendars at the point of operation, and
this is the limited work that is dealt with in the following
rules.