HECOL370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Consumer Product Safety Act, Combustibility And Flammability, Test Method
14 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Consumers assume that textile products in the marketplace are safe. Textiles are ammable and this is one area of performance that is regulated by federal law. Canadian consumer product safety act (ccpsa) speci es requirements for the. Children"s sleepwear, carpets, mattresses, bedding, tents, soft toys. Astm d4391 standard terminology relating to burning behaviour of textiles. Iso 4880 burning behaviour of textiles and textile products- vocabulary. Combustion: a chemical process of oxidation that occurs at a rate fast enough to produce heat and usually light either as glow or as ames. Flammability: those characteristics of a material that pertain to its ease of ignition and ability to sustain combustion. Combustible textile: a textile that will ignite and burn or that will give o vapours that will ignite and burn when subjected to external sources of ignition. Flammable textile: any combustible textile that burns with a ame.
