1.1 This European Standard applies to clipping machines This European Standard specifies safety and hygiene requirements to minimise the hazards which can arise during the commissioning, the use and the maintenance of clipping machines for portioning and closing of casings filled with foodstuffs, and intended to be used in butcheries, meat processing factories, main kitchens and other food processing factories. This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to clipping machines, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). This European Standard is not applicable to clipping machines which are manufactured before the date of publication of this European Standard by CEN. 1.2 This European Standard covers the following types of machines: Concerning the sort of actuation: - machine for gathering up by hand, power motioned locking-stroke; - machine for automatic-motioned gathering and automatic-motioned locking-stroke. Concerning the removal-system: - machine with removal by fixed or movable clip-guide (see Figures 1 and 2); - machine with spread-removal (see Figures 3 and 4). Key 1 Fixed clip guide Key 1 Movable clip guide Figure 1 - Machine with removal by fixed clip guide Figure 2- Machine with removal by movable clip guide Key 1 Spread-removal 2 Filling-tube 3 Casing brake 4 Tube (casing) Figure 3 - Machine with spread-removal Figure 4 - Spread-removal - detail Concerning construction: - table-top-machine; - movable floor machines; - floor-mounted-machine. 1.3 Description Clipping machines will be used for closing of tubes with a single-clip (one side) or a double-clip (endlocking and startlocking). The machines are equipped with closing tools (punch/die), which make the locking by deforming the locking-element (clip). A removal/gathering is used to form a free space and to gather