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Department of Commerce Announces
Commerical Standard of Wool Felt
In a cooperative undertaking joined
in by manufacturers, distributors and
users of wool felt, the National Bureau
of Standards and the Department of
Commerce, a commercial standard for
wool felt has been established in the
United States for the first time. The
new 7 standard, on which The Felt Asso-
ciation, New York, has been working
for a number of years, has just been
published by the Government as Com-
mercial Standard 185-82, titled "Wool
Felt" and is being distributed by the
Department of Commerce.
Primary purpose of the new standard
is to establish standard methods of test,
rating, certification and labeling of
wool felt, and to provide uniform bases
for fair competition. While adherence
to the standard is voluntary, if refer-
ence is made to it in contracts, labels,
invoices or advertising matter, the pro-
visions of the standard are enforceable
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through the usual legal channels as a
part of the sales contract. To date
over 100 manufacturers and organiza-
tions have announced their acceptance
of the new standard, including among
many others, felt manufacturers, piano
manufacturers and piano supply man-
ufacturers. The newly promulgated
standard covers the following types of
wool felt: 1. Mechanical Roll Felt, gen-
erally in roll form and suitable for
mechanical use; 2. Sheet Felts, cus-
tomarily fabricated in sheets; 3. Roll
Felts, for the apparel and decorative
trades, generally in colors.
As defined by the standard, felt is "a
fabric built up by the interlocking of
fibers by a suitable combination of
mechanical work, chemical action, mois-
ture and heat, without spinning, weav-
ing or knitting. It may consist of one
or more classes of fibers; wool, re-
processed wool, and/or reused wool,
with or without admixture with animal,
vegetable, and synthetic fibers."
Under Mechanical Roll Felts, the
standard covers five felt densities in
five types ranging in density from 8
pounds to 18 pounds per square yard
of 1-inch nominal thickness. These in-
clude the full range of mechanical felts
known in the trade by the following
designations: Laundry, Backcheck, Ball-
bearing felt, Extra-firm pad, Lining,
Firm pad and Soft pad.
In the Sheet Felt category the stand-
ard covers five densities of felt in four
different types ranging in weight from
12 pounds to 32 pounds per square
yard of 1-inch nominal thickness. The
four distinct types of sheet felt are:
1. Fine Spanish, composed of high-
est quality white wools, predomi-
nantly U. S. Standard 64's, processed
to be free from vegetable, paint and
other foreign matter;
2. Spanish, composed of select un-
bleached wools, usually U. S. Stand-
ard 58's, largely free from vegetable
and other foreign matter;
USED PIANOS —
3. Mexican, composed of wool. U. S.
Standard 56's; and
4. Coarse Mexican, a type of sheet
felt made from wool, LI. S. Standard
50's or coarser.
Concurrent with the issuance of the
new commercial standard, The Felt As-
sociation has designed a manufacturers'
seal which can be used on felt products
to indicate compliance with the stand-
ard. The seal carries the following
statement: "The manufacturer declares
that this felt meets all requirements of
commercial standard CSI85-52 as is-
sued by the U. S. Department of Com-
merce."
Typical Felt Applications
Some typical applications of roll
felt are as washers, bushings, wicks,
pads; vibration mountings, dust shields;
ball and roller bearing oil-retainer
washers and small dust-excluding wash-
ers; thin cut parts such as gaskets and
liners; antisqueak strips; sound dead-
ening; packing and padding.
Among those companies interested in
the piano business who are acceptors
of these standards are Aluminum Com-
pany of America, American Felt Co.,
American Specialty Supply Co., Con-
tinental Felt Co., The Felters Co., Char-
les W. House & Sons, Inc.. W. W. Kim-
ball Co., Standard Felt Co., Steinway
& Sons, Story & Clark Piano Co., Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co.. Standard Piano
Hammer Co. Pratt, Read & Co., Estey
Piano Corp., Wood & Brooks & Co.,
and others.
Pratt, Read "Tru-Touch"
Keyboard Now Available
The "Tru-Touch" silent movable key-
board, introduced at the July Trade
Show by Pratt, Read & Co., Ivoryton,
Conn, is now in distribution. This pro-
duct can be used to take the place of
cardboard keyboards to give realism to
class piano study in schools. Tru-Touch
is sturdy and made to standard key-
board specifications. The piano after-
touch »can be easily regulated with a
screwdriver.
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UPRIGHTS (as is) from $25 up
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1952
NEW YORK. N. Y.
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