IEC TS 62885-1:2018

IEC TS 62885-1 ®
Edition 2.0 2018-07
TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATION
Surface cleaning appliances –
Part 1: General requirements on test material and test equipment

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IEC TS 62885-1 ®
Edition 2.0 2018-07
TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATION
Surface cleaning appliances –
Part 1: General requirements on test material and test equipment

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
ICS 97.080 ISBN 978-2-8322-5836-1

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Carpet construction specification . 7
4.1 Wilton carpet. 7
4.2 Verification of new carpets . 8
4.2.1 Construction verification . 8
4.2.2 Performance verification . 9
5 Pre-treatment of new and replacement carpets for testing . 9
5.1 General . 9
5.2 Pre-treatment of new carpets for dust removal testing . 9
5.3 Verification of replacement carpets for dust removal testing . 9
5.4 Pre-treatment of new carpets for the determination of airborne acoustical
noise . 10
Annex A (informative) Initial production run of the BIC4 Wilton carpet . 11

Table 1 – Wilton carpet construction specifications . 8
Table A.1 – Test results for BIC4 Wilton carpets . 11

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SURFACE CLEANING APPLIANCES –
Part 1: General requirements on test material and test equipment

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IEC TS 62885-1, which is a technical specification, has been prepared by subcommittee 59F:
Surface cleaning appliances, of IEC technical committee 59: Performance of household and
similar electrical appliances.

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This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2016. This edition
constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical change with respect to the previous
edition:
a) a new clause (Clause 5) on the pre-treatment of carpets has been introduced.
The text of this technical specification is based on the following documents:
Enquiry draft Report on voting
59F/334/DTS 59F/344/RVDTS
Full information on the voting for the approval of this technical specification can be found in
the report on voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all the parts in the IEC 62885 series, under the general title Surface cleaning
appliances, can be found on the IEC website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
the stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data
related to the specific publication. At this date, the publication will be
• transformed into an International standard,
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
A bilingual version of this publication may be issued at a later date.

INTRODUCTION
IEC subcommittee 59F has agreed to make a collection of existing and future test equipment
and materials used in testing surface cleaning equipment and to publish this collection as a
Technical Specification, which it intends to keep up to date. The existing Annexes published
on the IEC web will be integrated in this Technical Specification step by step.
This second edition complements the specification of the Wilton carpets in the first edition
with information on pre-treatment of new and replacement carpets. Further carpet
specifications may follow.
It is still the intention to supplement this Technical Specification with other test materials and
SC 59F, Surface cleaning appliances, is currently looking into possibilities to add
specifications concerning the various kinds of dust used.
The intention with this publication is to ensure a minimum of test material types and common
use of these materials in tests of various surface cleaning appliances.

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Part 1: General requirements on test material and test equipment

1 Scope
This part of IEC 62885 specifies the physical characteristics of test equipment and material
used in tests common for several products covered by standards in the IEC 62885 series for
surface cleaning appliances. In addition, it provides guidance regarding the evaluation of
Wilton and other types of carpets to determine their acceptability for testing.
NOTE Currently, this document covers only the Wilton carpet and its treatment.
2 Normative references
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.
IEC 62885-2:— , Surface cleaning appliances – Part 2: Dry vacuum cleaners for household or
similar use – Methods for measuring the performance
ISO 1763, Carpets – Determination of number of tufts and/or loops per unit length and per
unit area
ISO 1765, Machine-made textile floor coverings – Determination of thickness
ISO 1766, Textile floor coverings – Determination of thickness of pile above the substrate
ISO 1833, Textiles – Binary fibre mixtures – Quantitative chemical analysis
ISO 2060, Textiles – Yarn from packages – Determination of linear density (mass per unit
length) by the skein method
ISO 2061, Textiles – Determination of twist in yarns – Direct counting method
ISO 2424, Textile floor coverings – Vocabulary
ISO 6989, Textile fibres – Determination of length and length distribution of staple fibres (by
measurement of single fibres)
ISO 8543, Textile floor coverings – Methods for determination of mass
BS 4223, Methods for determination of constructional details of carpets with yarn pile
BS 8459, Determination of extractable matter in textiles – Method
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Under preparation. Stage at the time of publication: IEC CDV 62885-2:2017.
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