NEW OEM SAFETY LIGHT CURTAIN
25 February 2004 - EJA

Allen-Bradley Guardmaster's new GuardShield Type 2 Safety Light Curtain meets the needs of OEM machine builders for a self contained, tough and extremely cost effective safety device that protects personnel from equipment or machinery hazards where the risk of injury is low.

The GuardShield Type 2 is designed for use on or around equipment - such as conveyors, packaging and textile machinery, automated assembly lines and automatic storage/retrieval devices, where a formal risk assessment has determined that a Type 2 (per EN 61496) safety device is sufficient to provide the level of guarding required by the application.

The GuardShield Type 2 offers OEMs an unequalled package of cost competitiveness, reliability, durability and flexibility. Providing high levels of ingress protection to IP65, and housed in a unique rugged case, it is simple to install via Quick Disconnect cables, reliable in operation and is TUV and CE marked for conformance to all applicable directives.

An advanced and cost competitive 'two-box' design, the GuardShield Type 2 supplies multiple safety beams in a range of protective heights from 160mm to 1760mm, with a 30mm resolution across a wide scanning range of 0.3m to 18m. The two boxes that make up the system, a transmitter and a receiver, operate synchronously and are, therefore, not physically connected. The effectiveness of this design means that the transmitter, which operates on low voltage 24VDC supply, requires no bulky, and costly, controller box.

The GuardShield Type 2 is offered in either a 'Guard Only' operating mode or in a factory configured operating mode of restart interlock with external device
monitoring. In either operating mode, the GuardShield Type 2 safety light curtain provides the appropriate level of protection to personnel.

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