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Single-service cloth towels

Australian/New Zealand Standard
AS/NZS 4286:1995
 AS/NZS 4286:1995

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee TX/22, Cabinet Towels. It was approved on behalf of the Council of
Standards Australia on 14 February 1995 and on behalf of the Council of Standards
New Zealand on 20 February 1995. It was published on 5 June 1995.
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The following interests are represented on Committee TX/22:

Australian Chamber of Manufactures

Australian Wool Testing Authority
Research Institute Textile Services, New Zealand
Textile Care Federation of New Zealand
Textile Rental and Laundry Association, Australia

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This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 93113 and DR 93114.
 AS/NZS 4286:1995

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Single-service cloth towels

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
1 The Crescent,
Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

Level 10, Radio New Zealand House,
155 The Terrace,
Wellington 6001 New Zealand
ISBN 0 7262 9715 1
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand
Committee TX/22 on Cabinet Towels, following a request for a Standard to cover
performance and servicing aspects of cloth towels which are dispensed, as required, from
a cabinet for the purpose of hand drying.
This Standard does not cover the design or performance of the towel dispenser or cabinet,
but does include dispensing aspects of the towel.
In the preparation of this Standard, cognizance was given to BS 7311 — 1990 Cabinet
towels, Part 1: Specification .
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CONTENTS
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1 SCOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 OBJECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4 DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5 FABRICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6 SAMPLE AND TEST SPECIMENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7 CONDITIONING AND TESTING ATMOSPHERE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
8 INFORMATION LABELLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
9 PROCESSING, CARE AND TRANSPORTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
10 DISPENSING REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA / STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

Australian/New Zealand Standard

Single-service cloth towels

1 SCOPE This Standard specifies constructional and performance requirements for

three grades of single-service cloth towels. This Standard also covers the information
required to be supplied with towels and their processing, care, transportation, and
dispensing.

2 OBJECTIVE The objective of this Standard is to facilitate the provision of re-

usable, single-use towels for hand drying which meet at least a minimum level of
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performance in aspects that are critical to hygiene.

3 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS The following documents are referred to in this

Standard:
AS
1199 Sampling procedures and tables for inspection by attributes
1587 Methods for measurements of textile fabrics — Length, width, thickness, mass
per unit length and mass per unit area
2001 Methods of test for textiles
2001.1 Conditioning procedures
2001.2 Physical tests
2001.2.3 Determination of breaking force and extension of textile fabrics
2001.3 Chemical tests
2001.3.6 Determination of cuprammonium fluidity of cotton and cellulosic man-made
fibres
2001.4 Colourfastness tests
2001.4.3 Determination of colourfastness to rubbing
2001.4.15 Determination of colourfastness to washing
2001.5 Dimensional change
2001.5.4 Determination of dimensional change in laundering of textile fabrics and
garments — Automatic machine method
2001.7 Quantitative analysis of fibre mixtures
4146 Laundry practice
AS/NZS
2450 Textiles —Natural and man-made fibres —Generic names

BS
4554 Method of test for wettability of textile fabrics

4 DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Standard, the definitions given in AS 2450
and those below apply.
4.1 Dispenser — a machine designed to dispense, as required, a measured portion of
clean fabric from a roll, and to ensure the separation of clean and soiled portions of
fabric.

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