EN 16241:2014+A1:2016

European foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Design and manufacture
5 Materials
6 Type test methods
7 Routine test
8 In-Service assessment
9 Designation
10 Identification and marking
Annex A (informative) - In-service trial
Annex ZA (informative) - Relationship between this European
         Standard and the Essential Requirements of
         EU Directive 2008/57/EC
Bibliography

This European Standard establishes general principles for designing, manufacturing and type testing slack adjusters.NOTE 1These requirements cannot be written in sufficient detail to ensure good workmanship or proper construction. Each manufacturer is therefore responsible for taking every necessary step to make sure that the quality of workmanship and construction is such as to ensure accordance with good engineering practice.It is applicable to double acting slack adjusters designed to control the block (shoe) to tread (wheel) clearance of tread braked vehicles with conventional brake cylinders and rigging, without taking the track-gauge into consideration.NOTE 2The term used for this device by UIC is "Brake rigging adjuster".