BS 5557:1992
Superseded
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Textile floor coverings. Vocabulary
Hardcopy , PDF
30-03-2007
English
15-07-1992
Committees responsible
National foreword
Vocabulary
1. Scope
2. Normative references
3. General terms
4. Definitions and categories of textile floor
coverings as a function of their construction
5. Terms relating to the use-surface
6. Terms relating to the substrate
7. Terms relating to the patterning and colouring of
textile floor coverings
8. Terms relating to the fitting and use of textile
floor coverings
9. Terms relating to the estimation of fitness for use
of textile floor coverings
Annexes
A. (normative) Components of textile floor coverings
- Indications in the drawings
Figures
1. Cut-pile, plain-woven carpet, two-shot (warpways
section)
2. Loop-pile, plain woven carpet, two-shot (warpways
section)
3. Patterned or figured carpet, two-shot (warpways
section)
4. Patterned or figured carpet, three-shot through
to the back (warpways section)
5. Plain-woven carpet, three-shot (warpways section)
6. Face-to-face carpet (warpways section)
7. Chenille Axminster carpet (warpways section)
8. Spool Axminster carpet (warpways section)
9. Gripper Axminster carpet (warpways section)
10. Gripper Axminster carpet (Kardax construction)
11. Tufted loop-pile carpet (longitudinal section)
12. Tufted cut-pile carpet (longitudinal section)
13. Warp-knitted pile carpet (Raschel type)(longitudinal
section)
14. Bonded-pile carpet (loop pile)(longitudinal section)
15. Bonded-pile carpet (cut pile)(longitudinal section)
16. Face-to-face bonded-pile carpet (longitudinal
section)
17. Flocked-pile carpet
18. Example of cut-pile carpet produced by insertion
of pile stitched on by needle (longitudinal section)
19. Example of textile floor covering with needled loop
pile
20. Example of Persian knots (weftways section)
21. Example of Turkish knots (weftways section)
22. Manufacturing principle of needled textile floor
covering with primary support fabric
23. Two successive loops of a pile (longitudinal
section)
24. Example of tufts
25. Examples of tufts in the form knots
26. Cut/loop pile (longitudinal section)
27. Tip-sheared pile (longitudinal section)
28. Pile root (longitudinal section)
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