ASME B5.56M-1994
Specification and Performance Standard, Power Shears
- Standard No.
- ASME B5.56M-1994
- Release Date
- 1994
- Published By
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Status
- Replace By
- ASME B5.56M-1994(R2014)
- Latest
- ASME B5.56M-1994(R2019)
- 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.
ASME B5.56M-1994 history
- 0000 ASME B5.56M-1994(R2019)
- 0000 ASME B5.56M-1994(R2014)
- 1994 ASME B5.56M-1994 Specification and Performance Standard, Power Shears
