- Author
- Krasny, J. F. | Francis, J. B.
- Title
- Ranking Extinguishability of Burning Fabrics.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Geneva High School, NY
- Journal
- Textile Chemist and Colorist, Vol. 6, No. 6, 36-37, June 1974
- Keywords
- cotton fabrics | flammability | polyesters
- Abstract
- This report describes initial efforts to obtain laboratory data on the relative extinguishability of various fabrics, an aspect of the hazard due to burning fabrics which has been largely neglected in the past. A simple apparatus was designed to simulate the extinction of burning fabrics by beating the flames out. Two plates covered with asbestos sheeting are brought together at a rapid rate after a fabric suspended between them comes to a full burn. The time the plates have to be held together to extinguish the flames was found to increase roughly with increasing fabric weight. For a given weight, the time to extinguish tended to be shorter for all cotton fabrics than for polyester/cotton blends; the blends also tended to stick to the plates.