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Standards Organizations: ABS-American stripper cuts: the longitudinal cuts in the
Bureau of Shipping, ANSI-American National cover of lead finished hose caused by an
Standards Institute, API-American Petroleum improperly set stripper knife.
Institute, ASTM-American Society for Testing strip test: in fabric testing, tensile strength test
and Materials, BIA-Boating Industry made on a strip of fabric raveled down to a
Association, BSI-British Standards Institute, specified number of threads or width of fabric,
CGA-Compressed Gas Association, DIN- all of which are firmly held in grips wider than
Deutsches Institut for Normung-German the test piece.
Standards , EN-European Norms, FPS-Fluid
Power Society, FM- Factory Mutual Research, sulfur, free: the sulfur in a rubber compound
ISO-International Organization for extractable by sodium sulfite after the normal
Standardization, JIS-Japanese Industrial vulcanization process.
Standards, NAHAD-National Association of
Hose and Accessories Distributors, NFPA- sulfur, total: all the sulfur present in a rubber
National Fluid Power Association, RMA- compound, including inorganic sulfides and
Rubber Manufactures Association, SAE- sulfates.
Society of Automotive Engineers, TFI-The sun checking: the surface cracks, checks, or
Fertilizer Institute, UL- Underwriters crazing caused by exposure to direct or indirect
Laboratories
sunlight.
staple: (1) textile fiber of relatively short
length when spun and twisted forms a yarn; (2)
the length of such a textile fiber. surge: a rapid and transient rise in pressure.
static bonding: use of a grounded conductive swaging: the act of forming a hose fitting by
material to eliminate static electrical charges. passing it into a die, generally split, which is

static conductive: having the capability of sized to yield the desired finished fitting
furnishing a path for a flow of static electricity. diameter.
static wire: a wire incorporated in a hose to swelling: an increase in volume or linear
conduct static electricity.
dimension of a specimen immersed in liquid or
stock: an uncured rubber compound of a exposed to a vapor.
definite composition from which a given article
is manufactured. T

straight end: a hose end with an inside tabby: a section of cord fabric with closely
diameter the same as that of the main body of woven pick yarns. enabling the woven cord to
the hose. be cut without the individual cords in the rest of
the roll becoming displaced.
straight wrap: in a curing process, a wrap of
lightweight fabric in which the warp threads of tack: the ability to adhere to itself: a sticky or
the fabric are parallel to the axis of the hose. adhesive quality or condition
stress relaxation: the decrease in stress after a tack, rubber: a property of a rubber and
given time at constant strain. rubber compounds that causes two layers of
compounds that have been pressed together to
stress-strain: the relationship of force and
deformation of a unit area of a body during adhere firmly at the area of contact.
compression, extension or shear. tear resistance: the property of a rubber tube
stretch: (1) an increase in dimension; an or cover of a hose to resist tearing forces
elongation; (2) the endload applied to fire hose teeth: the tension filaments which appear
during vulcanization to reduce hose elongation, between two adhering plies of rubber as they
strike through: (1) in coated or frictioned are pulled apart
fabric, a penetration of rubber compound tensile strength: the maximum tensile stress
through the fabric, (2) in woven fire hose, the applied while stretching a specimen to rupture.
penetration of the rubber backing through the
jacket, tensile stress: a stress applied to stretch a test
piece (specimen).

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