Increased Emphasis on Fire Safety in California - Upholstered Furniture -The New Tests

摘要

1. Testing for all components may be accomplished using the Furniture Mockup and Horizontal test assemblies. 2. The original Calif. TB117 Vertical flame test chamber may still be used for testing of Resilient Cellular Foam. 2.1 New test pass/fail criteria and decision tree is more stringent. 3. All the test assemblies are placed in a common design exhaust hood 4. The criteria to pass the revised California Technical Bulletin 117 reduces increases the resistance to an open-flame exposure of some of the major the components used in construction of Upholstered Furniture.