Bsi bs au 030b 1970 (2000)

BRITISH STANDARD AUTOMOBILE SERIES BS AU 30b 1970 Incorporating Amendment No 1 Specification for Standard automatic roller type coupling for semi trailers of 7 tons to 14# tons laden weight UDC 629 11[.]

BRITISH STANDARD AUTOMOBILE SERIES

30b:1970

Incorpora ting

Amend ment No 1

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This BritishStand rd, prep red u der the authority of the Automobie

Industry Stand rd s Commit e of the BSI, was fir t is ued in19 4 and later

rev ised in19 8 to rationalz the permit ed loa ing s and to introduce

a ditional requirements relating to braking The present rev ision incorporates

a ditional d ata consid ered neces ary as a result of ex erience g ained in the use

of the stand ard , b amend ments to the title, Clause1 and Fig ure 1 It

super ed es BS AU3 :19 8, which is therefore withdrawn

The stand rd specifies certain b sic information for a stand ard automatic

roler-ty pe couplng for con ection betwe n towing v ehicles and semi trai er

to as ist in obtaining ma imum inter hang ea i ity betwe n v ehicles using this

ty pe of couplng

Detais of a roler-ty pe couplng for use with semi trai er not

exce ding7! tons la en weig ht are g iv en in BS AU14 , “ Sta nd a r d a utoma tic

rol l er -type coupl ing fr s mi-tra il ers not exce d ing7! tons l a d en weight

NOT 1 Trailer man facturer , b fore a plying this stan ard, should asertain that the

dimensions of the towing ehicle are suita le.Op rator should v rify that towing v hicles an

semitrailer are mutualy suita le in al resp cts

NOT 2 If it is re uired to conv rt the fig ures in this stan ard fom imp rial u its into metric

u its it is recommen ed that the conv r ion factor an the ta les contained in BS3 0 “Conver sion

fa ctor s a nd ta bl es”, b used Attention is also drawn to BS2 5 , “ Pr ecision conver sion of inch a nd

metr ic sizes on en ine r in d rawin s”

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This d ocument comprises a f ont cov er, an insid e font cov er, p g esi andi ,

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This stand rd has be n upd ated ( se copy rig ht d ate) and ma hav e had

amend ments incorporated This wi l be indicated in the amendment ta le on

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Am endm ents is ued sinc publ cation

Amd No Date of is ue Comments

13 1 Mar h 19 4 Indicated b a sidelne in the marg in

Pag e

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1 Scope

This BritishStand rd specifies req uirements for

automatic roler-ty pe couplng s for semi traier in

the rang e7 tons to14# tons lad en weig ht hav ing a

max imum imposed operating weig ht on the roler

of5#tons Howev er,the rol er should be plated for

a ma imum desig n imposed weig ht of6! tons to

prov ide a load ing tolerance

2 Dim ensions

The b sic dimensions of the automatic rol er-ty pe

couplng shal be as shown in Fig ure 1

3 Braking connections

3.1 Servic and em erg ency braking Service an

emerg ency brakes for the semi traier shal comply

with the requirements of BS AU23

1)

except that

the p rking dev ice for the serv ice l ne shal take the

form of a female member without a self-sealng

dev ice connected throug h a d ouble check v alv e

( chang e-ov er v alv e) to the mechanical actuator for

the second ry brake, so that when coupled to a

traier with mechanical brakes only , these are

operated fom the tractor serv ice brak e as wel as b

the tractor second ary brake control

3.2 Se ondary braking Operation of the

second ry braking sy stem on the semi trai er shal

be b mechanical means throug h the coupl ng

turnta le; for ex mple b a push rod conforming to

the d imensions shown in Fig ure 1 To ensure

inter hang ea i ity the efort at the push rod shal

be5.3±0.2 k N (1 20 ±5 lbf) when the rod

actuator is operated at an air pres ure

of5 5k N/m

2

( 85lbf/i

2

)

4 Electrical connections

Electrical con ections betwe n the semitrai er and

tractor shal be b a sev en-pin plug and socket

complying with the requirements of BS AU

2)

1)

BS AU2 , “Gener a l l a yout of br a kin con etons for a r ticul a ted vehicl es usin two-l ine a ir pr es ur e system”

2)

BS AU “7-pin pl ug a nd socket con e tor ” ( In cour e of pre aration.)

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