ASTM F2598-09

Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Clothing Storage Chests

ABSTRACT
This specification deals with consumer safety for clothing storage chests. It is intended to minimize the incidents and injuries to children resulting from normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of these chests. The design of the lid support, closures, and locks shall conform to their performance requirements. Test methods shall be done for lid support mechanisms and closures. Finishes and materials used in the construction of the chests shall be nonhazardous. All paints and coatings shall comply with the limitations of antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and selenium.
SCOPE
1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the performance requirements and test methods to ensure the safety of chests.
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize the incidents and injuries to children resulting from normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of these chests.
1.3 This consumer safety specification applies to products known as clothes chests or other single-compartment closed rigid boxes (sometimes referred to as “cedar chests”) that are designed and marketed as storage containers for clothes, blankets, or linens. The products subject to the requirements are those with a single volume of 1.1 ft3  (0.031 m3) or more.
1.4 No chest 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 values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard.
1.6 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.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 14-Feb-2009
• ICS: 97.140 - Furniture
• Technical Committee: F15 - Consumer Products
• Drafting Committee: F15.42 - Furniture Safety

Relations

• Referred By: ASTM F2057-23 - Standard Safety Specification for Clothing Storage Units
• Effective Date: 15-Feb-2009

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Designation: F2598 −09
Standard Consumer Safety Specification for
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Clothing Storage Chests
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F2598; 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 (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This consumer safety specification addresses chest accidents that have been identified by the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
This consumer safety specification attempts to minimize the following: (1) possible entrapment and
strangulation hazards associated with sudden lid closing or dropping and (2) possible crushing,
pinching, and laceration hazards associated with folding mechanisms, hinges, and lid supports.
1. Scope 2. Referenced Documents
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1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the perfor- 2.1 ASTM Standards:
mance requirements and test methods to ensure the safety of
F834 Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Chests
chests. F963 Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety
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1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to mini-
2.2 ANSI Standard:
mize the incidents and injuries to children resulting from
ANSI Z535 Safety Labeling
normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of 4
2.3 Federal Standard:
these chests.
Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations--Commercial Prac-
1.3 This consumer safety specification applies to products
tices
known as clothes chests or other single-compartment closed
rigid boxes (sometimes referred to as “cedar chests”) that are
3. Performance Requirements
designed and marketed as storage containers for clothes,
3.1 Lid Support:
blankets, or linens. The products subject to the requirements
3.1.1 Chests with vertically opening hinged lids shall be
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are those with a single volume of 1.1 ft (0.031 m ) or more.
provided with lid-support mechanisms to prevent sudden
1.4 No chest produced after the approval date of this
collapse or dropping of the lid.
consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other
3.1.2 The lid-support mechanism shall support the lid so
means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it
that at no position in the arc of travel of the lid from within 2.0
conforms to all requirements contained herein.
in. (50.8 mm) of the fully closed position through an arc not to
exceed 60° from the fully closed position shall it drop more
1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
than 0.50 in. (12.7 mm) under the influence of its own weight,
as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical
except in the last 2.0 in. (50.8 mm) of travel. The test shall be
conversions to SI units that are provided for information only
conducted in accordance with 5.1.
and are not considered standard.
3.1.3 The chest lid shall comply with this requirement
1.6 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the
before and after being subjected to 3500 opening and closing
test methods portion, Section 5, of this specification: This
cycles, as described in Section 5.
standarddoesnotpurporttoaddressallofthesafetyconcerns,
ifany,associatedwithitsuse.Itistheresponsibilityoftheuser
of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health
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practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limita-
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This consumer safety specification is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Commit- Available from American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 25 W. 43rd St.,
tee F15 on Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036, http://www.ansi.org.
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F15.42 on Furniture Safety. AvailablefromU.S.GovernmentPrintingOfficeSuperintendentofDocuments,
Current edition approved Feb. 15, 2009. Published February 2009. DOI: 732 N. Capitol St., NW, Mail Stop: SDE, Washington, DC 20401, http://
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F2598 − 09
3.1.4 The lid-support mechanism shall not require adjust- chest” and “Risk of Child Suffocation.” Labels shall meet the
ment by the consumer to ensure adequate lid support, nor shall guidelines of ANSI Z535.
it require adjustment to comply with 3.1.2 after being cycled
5. Test Methods
according to 5.1.2.
5.1 Lid Support Mechanisms:
3.1.5 Lid-support mechanisms shall be designed so as to
5.1.1 Assemble the che
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