ASTM F1776-01

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AnAmerican National Standard
Designation: F 1776 – 01
Standard Specification for
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Eye Protective Devices for Paintball Sports
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F1776; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.Anumber in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This is the specification for eye protective devices, or EPD, to be used in the sport of paintball.
Paintball is a sport that, like all sports, has intrinsic hazards. These hazards include being hit by
paintballs. Protective equipment cannot eliminate all injuries but will substantially reduce their
severity and frequency. Participation in this sport by a player implies acceptance of injury risk. The
goal of protective equipment is to minimize the risk of injury.
Performance requirements are presented and are intended to minimize injury with minimal
impairment of the form and appeal of the sport. This specification is subject to revision as indicated
by subsequent injury statistics.
The impact requirements are designed to give eye and adnexal protection from paintball impacts
likely to be encountered under game conditions. While the EPD also may protect the user from other
potential impacts, such as running into tree branches, there are many conceivable impacts, including
falls from heights, which could exceed the specification and result in eye injury despite the use of the
EPD.
1. Scope 2. Referenced Documents
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1.1 This specification applies to eye protective devices, 2.1 ASTM Standards:
designed for use by players of the sport of paintball, that D1003 Test Method for Haze and LuminousTransmittance
minimize or significantly reduce injury to the eye and adnexa of Transparent Plastics
due to impact and penetration of paintballs. F803 Specification for Eye Protectors for Selected Sports
1.2 Eye protective devices meeting the requirements of this 2.2 ANSI Standards:
specification offer protection to the eyes and adnexa and not Z80.3 Requirements for Nonprescription Sunglasses and
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necessarily to any other parts of the head. Fashion Eyewear
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the Z87.1 Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and
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standard. The values given in parentheses are for information Face Protectors
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only. 2.3 Federal Standards:
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the No. 406
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the No. 3022
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
3. Terminology
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
1.5 This specification does not limit the wearing of eye- 3.1.1 adnexa, n—adjunct parts of the eye, including the
orbit, orbital contents, eyelids, and the lacrimal apparatus.
glasses or contact lenses when used in conjunction with the
EPD.
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For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
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Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
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This specification is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Committee F08 on Sports the ASTM website.
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EquipmentandFacilitiesandisthedirectresponsibilityofSubcommitteeF08.57on Available fromAmerican National Standards Institute (ANSI), 25 W. 43rd St.,
Eye Safety for Sports. 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036, http://www.ansi.org.
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Current edition approved May 10, 2001. Published September 2001. Originally AvailablefromStandardizationDocumentsOrderDesk,Bldg.4SectionD,700
published as F 1776–97. Last previous edition F 1776–99a. Robbins Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111-5094, Attn: NPODS.
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3.1.2 astigmatism, n—a condition in a lens that creates two 3.1.18 paintball fragment, n—a part of the shell of the
axially separated line foci of each object point, the lines being paintball that will not be surrounded completely bya3by
mutually perpendicular. In other words, the lens has two 5-mm rectangle .
different refractive powers in meridians that are 90° apart.
3.1.19 orbital area, n—the area contained in a circle r =
3.1.3 base-in, adj—relating to the type of prism imbalance
20-mm centered on the pupil of the headform.
that tends to cause parallel rays of light passing through a
3.1.20 power imbalance, n—a condition that exists when
protector, spaced apart by the interpupillary distance, to con-
the refractive power created by
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