B.S. 895 : Part 2: 1965 SPECIFICATION FOR STRETCHERS AND STRETCHER CARRIERS Part 2. Performance Me ie NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWTiny Baivisi: Srawparo, having been approved by the Personal Safety Equipment Standards Committee, was published under the authority of the General Council on 26th November, 1965. The Institution desires te call attention to the fact that this British Standard does not purport to include ali the necessary provisions of a contract. In order to keep abreast of progress in the industries concerned, British Standards are subject to periodical review. Suggestions for improvements will be recorded and in due course brought to the notice of the committees charged with the revision of the standards to which they refer. A complete jist of British Standards, numbering over 4000, fally indexed and with 2 note of the contents of cach, will ‘be found in the British Standards Yeardook, The B.S. 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Association ederation * Association Society dry Associations Erecifiety Council, the Generating Board and the Area Boards in England and Wales Federation of British Rubber ard Allied Manufacturers Federation af Civil Ea is Glass Mi Institute of Beitish Institution of Civil Engineers Institution of Enginceting Inspes Institution of Industrial Safety Or Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Insthution of Production Engineers Enger, ion oe Operatives Britain Royal Society for the Proves feats Shoe and Allied Trades Research Association Trades Union Congress. United Ki Energy Authority The organizations marked with an asterisk in the above list, together with the following, were directly represented on. the committee entrusted with the preparation of this British Standard: British Medical Association Grand Zriory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of Si. John of Jerusalem gdom Ator istry of Defers istry of Defence, Army Department inistry of Defence, Navy Department istry of Health Ministry of Public Building and Works 1 Association of Ambulance Officers jon of Hospital Supplies Officers 1 Association of Lift Makers nal Coal Board 'y of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd. Individual firms: Part 211965 BRITISH STANDARD SPECIFICATION FOR TRETCHERS AND STRETCHER CARRIERS Part 2. Performance FOREWORD Part 1 of this British Standard, the second revision of which was published in 1960, deals with the dimensions of stretchers and streicher cai It he subsequently been found desirabte to lay down certain performance require ments as criteria for the necessary strength and rigidity of stretchers. Tais part of this standard covers these performance requirements and is applicable to stretchers with either metal cr wooden poles. NOTE 1. Where metric equivalents are stated, the figures in British units are to be regarded as the standard. The metric conversions are approximate. More accurate conversions shou!d be based oi tite txbles in B.S. 380, ‘Conversion factors and tables’. NOTE 2. In place of the customary, but incorrect, use of the pound and kilogramme as units of force, the units called ation kgf) have been used in this standard. These are the forces which, when acting on a bovly of mats one pound or one kilogramme respectively, give it an acceleration equal to that standare gravity. SPECIFICATION SCOPE 1. This British Standard specifies the performance requirements of stretchers constructed to B.S. 896, Part 1*, to ensure strength of construction and rigidity. RIGIDITY OF POLES 2. With the stretcher loaded in accordance with Appendix A and each pole supported at two points each located 37-5 in (953 mm) from the centre of the pole, the downward deflection at the centre of the poles of the stretcher shall not exceed J in (25 mm). SPREAD OF FEET 3. When the stretcher is loaded in accordance with Appendix A and supported as in Clause 2, the distance between any one pair of the feet of the stretcher shall not increase ky more than 3% in (10 mm) compared with the spread in the unloaded condition. GROUND CLEARANCE OF BARS 4, When the stretcher is loaded in accordance with Appendix A and is placed on a flat surface, there shall be a minimum clearance of 1% in (35 mm) between the lowest part of any spreader bar and the surface. *B.S. 896, ‘Stretchers and stretcher carriers’, Part 1, ‘Dimensions’ 4B.S. 896 : Part 221565 RIGIDITY OF BARS. 5. When the stretcher bars of an opened stretcher are designed to close by hinging inwards towards the centre the stretcher shall be designed and constructed so that when if is loaded in accordance with Appendix A the bars shall operate when a static load of not iess than 50 Ibf (23 kgf) and not more than 60 Ibf (27 kgf) is imposed at the approximate centres of the bars, APPENDIX A STR TE A total weight of 300 Ib is distributed over the full width of the stretcher (excluding the poles) as follows: a. 150 Ib evenly spread over the centre 18 inch length. b. 45 Ib evenly spread over the adjacent 15 inch lengths. c. 30 Ib evenly spread over the adjacent 12 inch lengths. LOADINGBRIVISH STANDARDS The following are available on application:— YEARBOOK Including subject index and numerical list of h Standards SECTIONAL LISTS. 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