National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN ISO 13769:2018. It is identical to ISO 13769:2018. It supersedes BS EN ISO 13769:2009, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee PVE/3/7, Gas containers - Gas cylinder (receptacle) operations.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 August 2018.

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 58, Gas cylinders, Subcommittee SC 4, Operational requirements for gas cylinders.

Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found at www.iso.org/members.html.

This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition (ISO 13769:2007), which has been technically revised. The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:

inclusion of markings for non-refillable gas cylinders;
inclusion of markings for gas cylinders less than 0,5 l water capacity;
inclusion of marking examples for small non-refillable and refillable gas cylinders.

Introduction

This document has been written so that it is suitable to be referenced in the UN Recommendations for the Transport of Dangerous Goods — Model Regulations.

This document is intended to be applied at the time of cylinder manufacture. However, it may be applied by the cylinder user during use operations, e.g. the stamping of “empty weight” (item 10 in Figures C.1, C.2 and C.3) on cylinders not so marked at the time of manufacture. It is also intended to be applied at the time of periodic inspection.

Some stamp markings include the year and month. The order of these time elements is given with the most significant digits (the year) to the left, in accordance with the rules given in ISO 8601.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 23 May 2018.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN ISO 13769:2018) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 58 "Gas cylinders" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 23 “Transportable gas cylinders”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by February 2019, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2019.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN ISO 13769:2009.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Endorsement notice

The text of ISO 13769:2018 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 13769:2018 without any modification.

1 Scope

This document specifies stamp marking of transportable gas cylinders of volumes greater than 0,12 l and up to or equal to 150 l and tubes of volumes up to or equal to 3 000 l, including:

steel and aluminium-alloy gas cylinders;
composite gas cylinders;
acetylene cylinders;
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders (see Annex A); and
small cylinders (see Annex B).

Unless noted by exception, the use of “cylinder” in this document refers to the above types of cylinders.

Non-refillable cylinders are addressed by this standard.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Application of stamp markings

4.1 General

4.2 Workmanship

4.3 Arrangement and position of stamp markings

Bibliography

BS EN ISO 13769:2018

Gas cylinders. Stamp marking

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Aug 2018