Color Fastness Tester

Testing Standards:

AATCC 162, 16 CFR Part 1610

Applications:

Dry Cleaning and Washing Cylinder is designed for determining color fastness to dry cleaning and chlorinated pool water. It also can be used to prepare samples for flammability testing.

Product Information:

Dry cleaning and washing cylinders are also known as dry cleaning tester and AATCC 162 tester. Dry cleaning and washing cylinder is used to test the color fastness of fabric to dry-cleaning and chlorine water washing. The Dry Cleaning And Washing Cylinder is comprised of stainless steel rotating test chamber with capacity of 7650ml, support frame, variable speed drive with digital timer.

Parameters:

1.Equipped with stainless steel rotating roller;

2.Height of tank: 330mm;

3.Diameter of in-tank: 220mm;

4.Rotating speed can be adjusted according to customer’s requirements;

5.Overall dimension: 720×490×620mm(L×W×H);

6.Equipped with digital timer and displays;

7.Weight: 98kg.

Operation
Clean the dry cleaning cylinder

Prepare the hardness concentrates according to the relevant standards.
51 ml of the hardness concentrate was diluted to 5100 ml with distilled or deionized    water.
If necessary, adjust the pH of the solution to 7.0 with sodium carbonate or acetic acid.
5000 ml of the solution (made in the above 3) was charged into a dry-cleaning cylinder. The temperature was adjusted to 21 ° C.
Put the color test sample with the standard test fiber into the cylinder, turn off the barrel, and roll for 60 minutes.
Get out the sample and remove the excess solution.

Technical Parameters