[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2009]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR1631.1]

[Page 730]
 
                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1631_STANDARD FOR THE SURFACE FLAMMABILITY OF SMALL CARPETS AND RUGS (FF  
 
                         Subpart A_The Standard
 
Sec. 1631.1  Definitions.

    Authority: Sec. 4, 67 Stat. 112, as amended, 81 Stat. 569-70; 15 
U.S.C. 1193.


    In addition to the definitions given in section 2 of the Flammable 
Fabrics Act, as amended (sec. 1, 81 Stat. 568; 15 U.S.C. 1191), and the 
procedures under that act for setting standards (part 1607 of this 
chapter), the following definitions apply for the purposes of this 
Standard:
    (a) Acceptance Criterion means that at least seven out of eight 
individual specimens of a small carpet or rug shall meet the test 
criterion as defined in this Standard.
    (b) Test Criterion means the basis for judging whether or not a 
single specimen of small carpet or rug has passed the test, i.e., the 
charred portion of a tested specimen shall not extend to within 2.54 cm. 
(1.0 in.) of the edge of the hole in the flattening frame at any point.
    (c) Small Carpet means any type of finished product made in whole or 
in part of fabric or related material and intended for use or which may 
reasonably be expected to be used as a floor covering which is exposed 
to traffic in homes, offices, or other places of assembly or 
accommodation, and which may or may not be fastened to the floor by 
mechanical means such as nails, tacks, barbs, staples, adhesives, and 
which has no dimension greater than 1.83 m. (6 ft.) and an area not 
greater than 2.23 m.\2\ (24 sq. ft.). Products such as ``Carpet 
Squares'' with dimensions smaller than these but intended to be 
assembled, upon installation, into assemblies which may have dimensions 
greater than these, are excluded from this definition. They are, 
however, included in the Standard for the surface flammability of 
carpets and rugs (FF 1-70) (subpart A of part 1630 of this chapter). 
Mats, hides with natural or synthetic fibers, and other similar products 
are included in this definition if they are within the defined 
dimensions, but resilient floor coverings such as linoleum, asphalt tile 
and vinyl tile are not.
    (d) Small Rug means, for the purposes of this Standard, the same as 
small carpet and shall be accepted as interchangeable with small carpet.
    (e) Traffic Surface means a surface of a small carpet or rug which 
is intended to be walked upon.
    (f) Timed Burning Tablet (pill) means a methenamine tablet, flat, 
with a nominal heat of combustion value of 7180 calories/gram, a mass of 
150 mg 5mg and a nominal diameter of 6mm.
    (g) Fire-Retardant Treatment means any process to which a small 
carpet or rug has been exposed which significantly decreases the 
flammability of that small carpet or rug and enables it to meet the 
acceptance criterion of this Standard.

[40 FR 59935, Dec. 30, 1975, as amended at 72 FR 60767, Oct. 26, 2007]