BS 5682:1984

Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
Section one. General
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. General requirements
Section two. Terminal units
4. Location
5. Mounting
6. Design
7. Pressure regulator outlet
8. Cleaning and packaging
9. Identification and colour coding
10. Information to be supplied by the manufacturer
Section three. Connectors and hose assemblies
11. Connectors
12. Hose insert
13. Inlet connection to medical equipment
14. Hoses
15. Hose assemblies
16. Cleaning and packaging
17. Identification and colour coding of connectors
18. Identification and colour coding of hose assemblies
19. Information to be supplied by the manufacturer
Appendices
A. Recommendations for inspection and maintenance
B. Recommendations for servicing hose assemblies
C. Use of probes to BS 5682 in existing terminal units
D. Recommendations for materials
E. Method of test for dimensional stability
F. Method of test for resistance to occlusion
G. Pull-off test for hose assemblies
H. Method of test for pressure dorp across terminal
    units and terminal unit assemblies
Tables
1. Design requirements for flow and pressure drop across
    terminal units with probe inserted
2. Dimensions of typical gauges for checking key
    dimensions on probes
3. Diameters of probes
4. Service names and identification symbols
5. Colour coding of hoses
6. Diameters of body of NIST connectors
7. Diameters of nipples of NIST connectors
8. Compatibility of probes with terminal units
Figures
1. Typical gauges for checking key dimensions on probes
2. Probe
3. Basic dimensions of typical hose inserts for 6.3 mm
    and 8 mm bore hoses
4. Assembly of NIST connector
5. Body of NIST connector
6. Nipple of NIST connector
7. Nut of NIST connector
8. Some examples of the use of probes, connectors and
    hose assemblies
9. Typical methods of hose attachment
10. Typical test gauges for hose assemblies
11. Apparatus for occlusion test
12. Typical assembly of a medical equipment probe
    inserted in a terminal unit

Covers terminal units, hose assemblies and connectors for the supply of medical gases (oxygen, nitrous oxide and oxygen/nitrous oxide mixtures), medical air (400 kPa and 700 kPa) and vacuum from hospital medical gas pipeline systems up to and including the pipeline inlet connection of medical equipment.