AS 2359.

10—1995
ISO 2331:1974

Australian Standard
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Powered industrial trucks

Part 10: Fork-lift trucks—Hook-on

type fork arms—Vocabulary
[ISO title: Fork-lift trucks—Hook-on type fork arms—Vocabulary]
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee ME/26, Industrial Trucks. It was
approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 29 September 1994 and
published on 5 January 1995.

The following interests are represented on Committee ME/26:

Association of Employers of Waterside Labour
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Australian Chamber of Commerce

Australian Industrial Truck Association
Department of Defence
Department of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare, W.A.
Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia
Occupational Health and Safety Authority, Vic.
Port of Melbourne Authority
WorkCover Authority of N.S.W.

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This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 94066.

 AS 2359.10—1995

Australian Standard
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Powered industrial trucks

Part 10: Fork-lift trucks—Hook-on

type fork arms—Vocabulary

First publi shed as AS B270—1968.

Revised and redesignated AS 2359.1—1980.
Second editi on 1985.
Revised and redesignated in part as AS 2359.10—1995.

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 9366 0
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee on Industrial Trucks and is Part 10
in a series of Standards dealing with the design, manufacture and operation of powered industrial
trucks. It supersedes, in part, AS 2359.1—1985, SAA Industrial Truck Code, Part 1: Design and
manufacture .
Other Standards in this series are as follows:
Part 1: General
Part 2: Operation
Part 3: Counterbalanced fork-lift trucks—Stability tests
Part 4: Reach and straddle fork-lift trucks—Stability tests
Part 5: Control symbols
Part 6: Safety code
Part 7: Terminology
Part 8: Pallet stackers and high-lift platform trucks—Stability tests
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Part 9: High-lift rider trucks—Overhead guards—Specification and testing

Part 11: Fork-lift trucks—Hook-on type fork arms and fork carriers—Mounting dimensions
Part 12: Hazardous areas
This Standard is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO 2331:1974, Fork lift trucks—
Hook-on type fork arms—Vocabulary .
References to international Standards should be replaced by references, where appropriate, to the
following Australian Standard:
Reference to International Standard Australian Standard
ISO AS
2328 Fork lift trucks— 2359 Powered industrial trucks
Mounting dimensions for hook-on type 2359.11 Part 11: Fork lift trucks—
fork arms and fork carriers Hook-on type fork arms and fork
carriers—Mounting dimensions
2329 Fork lift trucks—Fork arms— —
Dimensions
2330 Fork lift trucks—Fork arms— —
Technical characteristics and testing
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AUSTRALIAN STANDARD

Powered industrial trucks

Part 10:
Fork-lift trucks—Hook-on type fork arms—Vocabulary

Fork lift trucks

Hook-on type fork arms
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Vocabulary

1 SCO PE AND FIEL D OF

APPLICAT ION

This International Standard defines terms

relating to hook-on type fork arms for fork
lift trucks, complying with ISO 2328,
ISO 2329 and ISO 2330.

2 REFER EN CE S

ISO 2328, Fork lift trucks—Mounting

dimensions for hook-on type fork arms and
fork carriers.1)

ISO 2329, Fork lift trucks—Fork arms—

Dimensions .1)

ISO 2330, Fork lift trucks—Fork arms—

Technical characteristics and testing.

1)
At present at the stage of draft.

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