- Author
- Army Medical Research Laboratory
- Title
- Fire Resisting Compounds for Clothing.
- Coporate
- Army Medical Research Lab., Fort Knox, KY
- Report
- Project No. 27, March 13, 1944, 13 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- clothing | flame retardant treatments | burns (injuries)
- Abstract
- The purpose of the test, as defined by the O.Q.M.G. were: (1) Evaluation of the ease of field application of two flame retardant compounds to standard issue clothing; (2) Evaluation of the qualities of treated garments [under anticipated extreme of humidity and temperature] included: (a) Comfort; (b) Irritation or dermatological reactions; (c) Undue failures of trated garments compared to untrated garments; (d) Does perspiration or light rain leach out the treatment with such rapidity as to make it ineffective?; (3) Evaluation of the amount of relative protection when garment is dry or when wet with perspiration or rain; (4) Evaluation of the life of the tratment under field conditions.