ASTM F1004-02a

Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Expansion Gates and Expandable Enclosures

SCOPE
1.1 This consumer safety specification establishes minimum safety performance requirements, test methods, and requirements for labeling and instructional material to minimize hazards to young children resulting from the normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse and abuse of expansion gates and expandable enclosures.
1.2 Products known as expansion gates and expandable enclosures, or by any other name, which are in the scope of this consumer safety specification are intended for young children aged six months through 24 months, and are defined in Section 3.
1.3 Expansion gates and expandable enclosures defined in Section 3 are for domestic use and are not to be confused with other types of gates or enclosures that may be specifically designed for commercial, institutional, agricultural, pet use, or any other such use.
1.4 No expansion gate or expandable enclosure as defined in Section 3, that is, produced after the approval date of this consumer safety specification either by label or other means, shall indicate compliance with this specification unless it conforms to all the requirements contained herein.
1.5 For expediency, expansion gates and expandable enclosures as defined in Section 3 will heretofore be referred to in this consumer safety specification as "gates" and "enclosures" unless referred to definitively.
1.6 The following pertains only to the test methods portion, Section 7, 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.
1.7 The values as stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The metric values given in parentheses are for information only.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 09-Oct-2002
• ICS: 97.190 - Equipment for children
• Technical Committee: F15 - Consumer Products
• Drafting Committee: F15.16 - Highchairs and Hook-On Chairs

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM F1004-02 - Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Expansion Gates and Expandable Enclosures
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Replaced By: ASTM F1004-04 - Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Expansion Gates and Expandable Enclosures
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM F1487-21 - Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Playground Equipment for Public Use
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM F406-22 - Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Non-Full-Size Baby Cribs/Play Yards
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM F3101-21a - Standard Specification for Unsupervised Public Use Outdoor Fitness Equipment
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: F 1004 – 02a
Standard Consumer Safety Specification for
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Expansion Gates and Expandable Enclosures
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F 1004; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This consumer safety specification addresses incidents of head and neck entrapment in children’s
expansion gates and expandable enclosures. It also addresses the ability of a pressure gate to resist a
push-out force.
TheU.S.ConsumerProductSafetyCommission(CPSC)identifiedincidentsthatgenerallyinvolved
a child’s head or neck, or both, becoming entrapped in diamond shaped openings and strangulation of
children in V-shapes at the top of accordion style expansion gates or expandable enclosures.
Additional incidents and injuries were identified that involved children attempting to climb up and
over expansion gates and expandable enclosures, and pushing or pulling pressure gates out of
doorways.
Thisconsumersafetyspecificationiswrittenwithinthecurrentstate-of-the-artofgateandenclosure
technology. It is intended that this consumer safety specification will be updated whenever substantive
information becomes available, which necessitates additional requirements or justifies the revision of
existing requirements.
This specification does not address incidents in which gates or enclosures are blatantly misused
although warnings and safety instructions are required to be displayed prominently on and with each
gate or enclosure.
1. Scope consumer safety specification either by label or other means,
shall indicate compliance with this specification unless it
1.1 Thisconsumersafetyspecificationestablishesminimum
conforms to all the requirements contained herein.
safety performance requirements, test methods, and require-
1.5 For expediency, expansion gates and expandable enclo-
ments for labeling and instructional material to minimize
sures as defined in Section 3 will heretofore be referred to in
hazards to young children resulting from the normal use and
this consumer safety specification as “gates” and “enclosures”
reasonably foreseeable misuse and abuse of expansion gates
unless referred to definitively.
and expandable enclosures.
1.6 The following pertains only to the test methods portion,
1.2 Products known as expansion gates and expandable
Section 7, of this specification. This standard does not purport
enclosures,orbyanyothername,whichareinthescopeofthis
to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its
consumer safety specification are intended for young children
use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to
aged six months through 24 months, and are defined in Section
establish appropriate safety and health practices and deter-
3.
mine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
1.3 Expansion gates and expandable enclosures defined in
1.7 The values as stated in inch-pound units are to be
Section 3 are for domestic use and are not to be confused with
regarded as the standard. The metric values given in parenthe-
other types of gates or enclosures that may be specifically
ses are for information only.
designed for commercial, institutional, agricultural, pet use, or
any other such use.
2. Referenced Documents
1.4 Noexpansiongateorexpandableenclosureasdefinedin
2.1 ASTM Standards:
Section 3, that is, produced after the approval date of this
D 3359 Test Methods for Measuring Adhesion by Tape
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Test
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F15 on
Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F15.16 on
Highchairs, Hook-On Chairs, and Expandable Gates.
Current edition approved Oct. 10, 2002. Published December 2002. Originally
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published as F 1004 – 86. Last previous edition F 1004 – 02. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 06.01.
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