EN IEC 60311:2019

Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for measuring performance

States and defines the principal performance characteristics of electric dry irons, steam irons, spray irons,and steam irons with seperate water reservoir or boiler/generator not exceeding 5L in capacity, for household or similar use.

Elektrische Bügeleisen für Haushalt und ähnliche Zwecke - Verfahren zur Messung der Gebrauchseigenschaften

Fers à repasser électriques pour usage domestique ou analogue - Méthodes de mesure de l'aptitude à la fonction

L'IEC 60311:2002 est applicable aux fers à repasser électriques pour usage domestique ou analogue. La présente Norme a pour objet d'énumérer et de définir les principales caractéristiques d'aptitude à la fonction des fers à repasser électriques pour usage domestique ou analogue intéressant l'utilisateur et de décrire les méthodes normalisées pour la vérification de ces caractéristiques. Les fers à repasser électriques couverts par la présente Norme comprennent: - les fers fonctionnant à sec; - les fers à production de vapeur; - les fers à pulvérisation d'eau; - les fers à production de vapeur avec réservoir d'eau séparé ou bouilleur/générateur de vapeur dont la capacité ne dépasse pas 5 l. La présente Norme ne traite pas des exigences de sécurité, ni des exigences concernant l'aptitude à la fonction.

Električni likalniki za gospodinjsko ali podobno uporabo - Metode za ugotavljanje lastnosti

Ta dokument se uporablja za električne likalnike za gospodinjsko ali podobno uporabo. Namen tega dokumenta je uporabniku navesti in opredeliti glavne lastnosti delovanja električnih likalnikov za gospodinjsko ali podobno uporabo ter opisati standardne metode merjenja teh lastnosti. Električni likalniki, ki so zajeti v tem standardu, vključujejo: – suhe likalnike; – parne likalnike; – parne likalnike s prezračevanjem in motorno črpalko; – likalnike z razpršilnikom; – parne likalnike z ločenim vodnim rezervoarjem ali grelcem/kotlom, katerega prostornina ne presega 5 l. Ta dokument ne opredeljuje varnostnih zahtev niti zahtev glede lastnosti.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 10-Oct-2019
• Withdrawal Date: 10-Oct-2022
• ICS: 97.060 - Laundry appliances
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 59X - Consumer information related to household electrical appliances
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 59L - IEC_SC_59L
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 11-Oct-2019
• Completion Date: 11-Oct-2019
• Ref Project: SIST EN IEC 60311:2019 - Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for measuring performance

Relations

• Replaces: EN 60311:2003 - Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for measuring performance
• Effective Date: 23-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 60311:2003/A1:2006 - Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for measuring performance
• Effective Date: 23-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 60311:2003/A2:2009 - Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for measuring performance
• Effective Date: 23-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-december-2019
Nadomešča:
SIST EN 60311:2003
SIST EN 60311:2003/A1:2006
SIST EN 60311:2003/A2:2010
Električni likalniki za gospodinjsko ali podobno uporabo - Metode za ugotavljanje
lastnosti
Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for measuring performance
Elektrische Bügeleisen für Haushalt und ähnliche Zwecke - Verfahren zur Messung der
Gebrauchseigenschaften
Fers à repasser électriques pour usage domestique ou analogue - Méthodes de mesure
de l'aptitude à la fonction
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 60311:2019
ICS:
97.060 Aparati za nego perila Laundry appliances
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 60311

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
October 2019
ICS 97.060 Supersedes EN 60311:2003 and all of its amendments
and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Electric irons for household or similar use - Methods for
measuring performance
(IEC 60311:2016)
Fers à repasser électriques pour usage domestique ou Elektrische Bügeleisen für Haushalt und ähnliche Zwecke -
analogue - Méthodes de mesure de l'aptitude à la fonction Verfahren zur Messung der Gebrauchseigenschaften
(IEC 60311:2016) (IEC 60311:2016)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2017-01-20. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2019 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN IEC 60311:2019 E
European foreword
The text of document 59L/116/CDV, future edition 5 of IEC 60311, prepared by SC 59L "Small
household appliances" of IEC/TC 59 "Performance of household and similar electrical appliances" was
submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN IEC 60311:2019.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2020-04-11
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2022-10-11
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 60311:2003.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60311:2016 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.

In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
IEC 60454-3-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60454-3-2
ISO 3758 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 3758

Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1  Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2  Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60051-1 -  EN 60051-1 -
IEC 60734 -  Household electrical appliances - EN 60734 -
Performance - Water for testing
ISO 105-F01 -  Textiles_- Tests for colour fastness_- - -
Part_F01: Specification for wool adjacent
fabric
ISO 105-F02 -  Textiles_- Tests for colour fastness_- - -
Part_F02: Specification for cotton and
viscose adjacent fabrics
ISO 105-F03 -  Textiles_- Tests for colour fastness_- - -
Part_F03: Specification for polyamide
adjacent fabric
ISO 1518-1 -  EN ISO 1518-1 -
ISO 2409  Paints and varnishes - Cross-cut test EN ISO 2409 2013
ISO 3801 -  Textiles; Woven fabrics; Determination of - -
mass per unit length and mass per unit
area
ISO 6330  EN ISO 6330 2012
ISO 7211-2 (mod) -  Textiles - Woven fabrics - Construction - EN 1049-2 -
Methods of analysis -- Part 2:
Determination of number of threads per
unit length
ISO 9073-2 -  Textiles -- Test methods for nonwovens -- EN ISO 9073-2 -
Part 2: Determination of thickness
ISO 13934-1 -  Textiles_- Tensile properties of fabrics_- - -
Part_1: Determination of maximum force
and elongation at maximum force using the
strip method
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Electric irons for household or similar use – Methods for measuring

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Fers à repasser électriques pour usage domestique ou analogue – Méthodes de

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms and definitions . 8
4 Measurements for various types of irons. 10
5 General conditions for measurements . 12
5.1 General . 12
5.2 Ambient conditions . 12
5.3 Voltage and frequency for measurements . 12
5.4 Steady conditions . 12
5.5 Iron support for measurements . 13
5.6 Temperature measurement . 13
5.7 Cordless irons having a mains supply attachment . 13
5.8 Irons fitted with separate steam generator/boiler . 13
5.9 Irons fitted with auto switch-off devices . 13
5.10 Test sample . 13
5.11 Irons with additives . 13
5.12 Circumvention . 13
6 General requirements . 14
6.1 Determination of mass . 14
6.2 Measurement of length of the supply cord . 14
7 Temperature measurements . 14
7.1 Measurement of heating-up time . 14
7.2 Measurement of initial overswing temperature and heating-up excess

temperature . 14
7.3 Measurement of sole-plate temperature . 15
7.4 Determination of the hottest point . 15
7.5 Measurement of temperature distribution . 16
7.6 Measurement of cyclic fluctuation of temperature of the hottest point . 16
8 Assessment of the spray function . 16
8.1 Determination of the mass of spray . 16
8.1.1 Determination of the mass of spray for irons with manual spray pumps . 16
8.1.2 Determination of the mass of spray for irons with means for continuous
spray . 17
8.2 Determination of the spray pattern . 17
9 Measurements concerning steaming operation . 18
9.1 Measurement of heating-up time for steaming operation . 18
9.1.1 For vented steam irons . 18
9.1.2 For pressurized steam irons or instantaneous steam irons . 19
9.2 Measurement of steaming time, steaming rate and water leakage rate . 19
9.2.1 For vented steam irons . 19
9.2.2 For pressurized steam irons and instantaneous steam irons . 20
9.2.3 Tolerances and control procedures for the steaming rate . 21
9.3 Determination of mass of a shot of steam . 22
10 Assessment of smoothing . 23
10.1 General . 23

IEC 60311:2016 © IEC 2016 – 3 –
10.2 Creasing of test cloth . 23
10.2.1 Test cloth . 23
10.2.2 Conditioning of test cloth before creasing . 23
10.2.3 Creasing tool . 23
10.2.4 Wrapping and creasing of test cloth . 23
10.3 Conditioning of the iron . 24
10.4 Ironing . 24
10.5 Ironing with shot of steam . 24
10.6 Evaluation . 25
11 Measurement of input power and energy consumption . 25
11.1 Measurement of input power . 25
11.2 Measurement of energy consumption . 25
11.2.1 Preparation of the test cloth . 25
11.2.2 Measurement of the energy consumed during heating-up operation . 26
11.2.3 Measuring of energy consumed during an ironing operation . 26
11.3 Ironing efficiency. 27
12 Assessment of sole-plate . 27
12.1 Determination of smoothness of t
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