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1. Wheels and castors
Wheels (figures 1 and 2 ) are obviously one of the most important components of a cart, as without them the load-carrying element would be no more than a stretcher or a sledge.
First of all, you need to know that a roulette wheel is not a small wheel, but a wheel mounted inside a clevis.
The wheel, invented 3,000 years BC by the Sumerians, is arguably the greatest invention of all time, and it's not without reason that there's a popular saying that "everything runs like clockwork" when things are going well.
1.1 Wheel types
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Wheels and castors
Various cart models
Bibliography
INRS (Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité) publication
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R 111 Staff safety in department stores
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R 282 Handling gas cylinders
R 298 Risks related to the use of pallets
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Standardization
While the regulations governing manual forklift-trucks are fairly basic, and often not adapted to the equipment currently being manufactured, standardization is very copious, and it is essentially to this that reference should be made.
Wheels and castors
French Standards Association (AFNOR)
- Wheeled containers – Additional tests on castors. - H50-503 - 12-89
- Industrial trucks...
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