Sec. 80-8.3. Definitions

As used in this Subpart; the following terms mean:

(a) Camping tentage.

Any portable temporary shelter or structure designed to protect persons from the elements, all or a portion of the covering of which is made of fabric or other pliable materials. This includes, though not exclusively, the following: camping tents; play tents; recreational vehicle awnings; dining flies and canopies; fabric screen houses; add-a-rooms and ice fishing tents.

(b) Flooring material.

Any pliable material used for flooring in camping tentage but excluding such things as rugs or carpets placed in the tent which are not an integral part of the item.

(c) Moisture equilibrium.

Moisture equilibrium is considered to have been reached when, after free exposure of the material to air in motion controlled at standard atmospheric conditions, the change in weight of successive weighings made at intervals of one hour is no greater than 0.25 percent.

(d) Sample unit.

A sample unit consists of the following:

(1) Flooring material: Four individual specimens, no two specimens containing the same warp or fill yarns or filaments.

(2) Wall and top material: Eight individual specimens, four taken from the warp and four from the fill direction of the test material. No two warp specimens contain the same warp yarns or filaments and no two fill specimens contain the same fill yarns or filaments.

(e) Standard atmospheric conditions.

Standard atmospheric conditions for testing are 65 percent ± 2 percent relative humidity at a temperature of 70°F. ± 2°F. (21.1°C. ± 1.1°C.)

(f) Wall and top material.

Any pliable material used in camping tentage for other than flooring including walls, roofs, tops, doors, windows, screens, awnings, flies and canopies.