ASTM F834-84(2008)
(Specification)Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Chests (Withdrawn 2016)
Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Chests (Withdrawn 2016)
SCOPE
1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the performance requirements and test methods to ensure the safety of toy chests.
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize the accidents and injuries to children resulting from normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of toy chests.
1.3 For the purposes of this consumer safety specification, these requirements apply to products known as toy chests or toy boxes that are designed and marketed as storage containers for toys. The products subject to the requirements are those with a volume of 1.1 ft3 (0.031 m3) or more.
1.4 No toy chest or toy box produced after the approval date of this consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it conforms to all requirements contained herein.
1.5 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the test methods portion, Section 5, of this specification: This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
WITHDRAWN RATIONALE
This consumer safety specification covered the performance requirements and test methods to ensure the safety of toy chests.
Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee F15 on Consumer Products, this specification was withdrawn in August 2016 and replaced by Specification F963, Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety.1
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Designation:F834 −84(Reapproved 2008)
Standard Consumer Safety Specification for
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Toy Chests
ThisstandardisissuedunderthefixeddesignationF834;thenumberimmediatelyfollowingthedesignationindicatestheyearoforiginal
adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.Anumber in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript
epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This consumer safety specification addresses toy chest accidents that have been identified by the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
For the period from 1973 through 1981, the Commission documented 21 fatalities and one case of
permanent brain damage from falling toy chest lids. The pattern generally involves a toy chest lid
falling on a child while he or she is leaning into the chest. If the child’s neck is extended across the
upper edge of the front of the chest when the lid falls, the child can be caught and strangled.Additional
accidents and less serious injuries have been identified, including finger entrapment and pinching
associated with toy chest hardware and attachments.
This consumer safety specification attempts to minimize the following: (1) possible entrapment and
strangulation hazards associated with sudden lid closing or dropping; (2) possible crushing, pinching,
and laceration hazards associated with folding mechanisms, hinges, and lid supports; and (3) possible
suffocation hazards due to lack of adequate ventilation.
This consumer safety specification is written within the current state-of-the-art technology. It is
intended to update this specification whenever substantive information becomes available which
necessitates additional requirements or justifies the revision of existing requirements.
1. Scope standarddoesnotpurporttoaddressallofthesafetyconcerns,
ifany,associatedwithitsuse.Itistheresponsibilityoftheuser
1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the perfor-
of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health
mance requirements and test methods to ensure the safety of
practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limita-
toy chests.
tions prior to use.
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to mini-
mize the accidents and injuries to children resulting from
2. Performance Requirements
normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of toy
chests. 2.1 Lid Support:
2.1.1 Toy chests with vertically opening hinged lids shall be
1.3 For the purposes of this consumer safety specification,
provided with lid-support mechanisms to prevent sudden
these requirements apply to products known as toy chests or
collapse or dropping of the lid.
toy boxes that are designed and marketed as storage containers
for toys. The products subject to the requirements are those 2.1.2 The lid-support mechanism shall support the lid so
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with a volume of 1.1 ft (0.031 m ) or more.
that at no position in the arc of travel of the lid from within 2.0
in. (50.8 mm) of the fully closed position through an arc not to
1.4 No toy chest or toy box produced after the approval date
exceed 60° from the fully closed position shall it drop more
of this consumer safety specification shall, either by label or
than 0.50 in. (12.7 mm) under the influence of its own weight,
other means, indicate compliance with this specification unless
except in the last 2.0 in. (50.8 mm) of travel. The test shall be
it conforms to all requirements contained herein.
conducted in accordance with 5.1.
1.5 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the
2.1.3 The toy chest lid shall comply with this requirement
test methods portion, Section 5, of this specification: This
before and after being subjected to 7000 opening and closing
cycles, as described in Section 5.
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F15 on
Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F15.22 on Toy
2.1.4 The lid-support mechanism shall not require adjust-
Safety.
ment by the consumer to ensure adequate lid support, nor shall
Current edition approved Aug. 15, 2008. Published October 2008. Originally
it require adjustment in order to comply with 2.1.2 after being
approved in 1984. Last previous edition approved in 1999 as F834 – 84 (1999).
DOI: 10.1520/F0834-84R08. cycled according to 5.1.2.
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2.1.5 Lid-support mechanisms shall be designed so as to of components, the resulting hazard if the lid support device is
prevent pinching, crushing, or laceration injuries to fingers. not installed, and a description of how to determine if the
Clearances or gaps produced by the action of such mechanisms support is worki
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