Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4101:6 - Bedding and Upholstered Furniture Inspection › Chapter 4101:6-1 - General Provisions › Section 4101:6-1-09 - Filling description

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
The purpose of rules 4101:6-1-09 to
				4101:6-1-17
				of the Administrative Code is to designate terms, definitions, and nomenclature
				as commonly used and recognized in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of
				upholstered furniture, bedding, and stuffed toys.
				Classifications of materials are intended to have understandable
				meanings to the ultimate consumer. The definitions are
				in conformity with those adopted by the majority of the states in the nation.
				It is hereby declared to be the direction, policy, and intent of the Ohio
				department of commerce to adopt and promote these terms, definitions, and
				nomenclature. Each of the following terms shall be used where
				appropriate:
(A) "Felt" means fiber
			 that has been garnetted or carded in layer form. This term cannot be used when
			 batting, felt scraps, or clippings are stuffed or blown in the same manner as
			 unfelted materials. Nor may this term be used for materials
			 that
			 have been felted but are not readily distinguishable from unfelted material.
			 The use of the term "batting," instead of "felt," is permissible.
(B) "Fiber" means any natural or synthetic
			 substance composed of thread-like tissue.
(C) "Pad" means any material interwoven,
			 punched, pressed, or molded into a flexible, padded form.
(D) "Napper" means the lint removed during
			 the process of raising the face of a cloth.
(E) "Card," "strips," or "stripping" means
			 the fibrous by-product produced by or removed from the carding cloth following
			 the carding process.
(F) "Comber"
			 means the fibrous by-product removed during the combing process.
(G) "Fly" means the fibrous by-product
			 removed from the machines during carding, drawing, or other textile
			 operations.
(H) "Noils" means the
			 short fibers removed during the combing process.
(I) "Pickers," "picker motes," or "motes"
			 means the fibrous by-products resulting from the opening and cleaning of fiber
			 in the opener room of a textile mill.
(J) "Sweepings" means the fibrous sweepings
			 from textile mills.
(K) "Shredded
			 clippings" means materials reclaimed from any yarn, fabric, or product by
			 shredding, cutting, tearing, grinding, or breaking. The white "all new
			 material" label shall be used for shredded clippings; the red-bordered
			 "secondhand material" label shall be used for secondhand shredded
			 clippings.
(L) "Garnetted
			 clippings" means material that has been made into thread, yarn, or fabric and
			 subsequently reduced to a fibrous state and processed through a garnetting
			 machine.
(M) "Textile fibers of
			 unknown kind" means new material consisting of a variety of fibers that has
			 been reduced to a fibrous state.
(N) "Textile fibers of undetermined origin"
			 means new material consisting of a variety of fibers that has been
			 reduced to a fibrous state.
(O)
			 "Nonwoven fiber sheet" means new material consisting of a variety of fibers
			 that has
			 been pressed or molded into a thin sheet 
								-like form.
(P) "Gravel" means a loose mixture of
			 pebbles and rock fragments coarser than
			 sand.
(Q) "Sawdust" means minute
			 particles of wood resulting as a by-product of sawing wood.
(R) "Plastic" means any of various
			 nonmetallic compounds, synthetically produced, that can be
			 molded into various forms and hardened for commercial use.
(S) "By-product" means anything produced in
			 the course of making another thing.
(T) "Molded" means having a certain shape
			 or form
			 produced while in a plastic or molten state by use of a mold.
(U) "Pieces" means parts of fragments broken
			 or separated from the whole.
(V)
			 "Beads" means small usually round objects, such
			 as glass, wood, metal, and so on.
(W) "Pellets" means a small ball or rounded
			 mass.
(X) "Cracked corn" means the
			 seed of maize (corn) that has been passed through a machine that breaks the
			 kernel apart.
(Y) "Soy beans" means
			 the seeds
			 of the soy plant.
(Z) "Turnip
			 seeds" means the seeds of the turnip plant.