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Insole Specifications and Testing Standards

The document outlines specifications for various components of shoes including insoles, stiffeners, threads, soles, and laces. Specifications include requirements for flexing, tensile strength, scuff resistance, laminar strength, bond ability, shape stability, shrinking, breaking load, tex value, tenacity, abrasion resistance, color fastness, hardness, density, elongation, flexing endurance, and abrasion resistance. Tests are to be conducted using equipment such as flexing machines, tensile testers, abrasion testers, and durometer according to defined minimum or maximum requirements.

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Insole Specifications and Testing Standards

The document outlines specifications for various components of shoes including insoles, stiffeners, threads, soles, and laces. Specifications include requirements for flexing, tensile strength, scuff resistance, laminar strength, bond ability, shape stability, shrinking, breaking load, tex value, tenacity, abrasion resistance, color fastness, hardness, density, elongation, flexing endurance, and abrasion resistance. Tests are to be conducted using equipment such as flexing machines, tensile testers, abrasion testers, and durometer according to defined minimum or maximum requirements.

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1.

6 Specification for Insole


Test Equipment/M/Cs Requirement

Flexing Fiber board flexing 2.7 (min) for cellulose board


Machine
Tensile strength Tensile testing machine 40 (min) for light wear
Kg/cm2 (wet)
Scuff resistance SATRA rub fastness tester 0.10 (min) for light in
Vol. loss in cm3 expensive wear
Laminar strength in kg/cm2 Tensile testing machine 3.0 (min)

1.7 Specification for Stiffeners


Test Equipment/M/Cs Requirement
Bond ability Tensile testing machine 5-10 N/cm
Shape stability Dome plastimeter >9Q%
Dome collapsing load Tensile tester 40 N (min)
Shrinkage Ovens 2% max

1.8 Specifications for Threads


Test Equipment/M/Cs Requirement
Breaking load and extension at break Tensile Tester 34-40 for 40/3
25-30 for 60/3
Tex Value For 60 – 55For 40 - 83
Tenacity >42Km

Abrasion resistance Abrasion Tester 1000 – 3000 cycles

Colour fastness Visual


Fastness of colour to abrasion Bally Finish Tester Visual
Colour bleeding Visual
1.9 Specification for Soles (Pu)
Hardness (IRHD) shore A durometer 60-80
Density (g/cm3) Analytical balance 1.20-1.27
Tensile Strength (kg/cm2) Tensile tester 140 (max)
% Elongation at break Tensile Tester 300 (min)
Flexing Endurance Ross Flexing machine 3 (max)
(Ross) (mm cut
growth after 60,000
cycles)
Abrasion DIN Abrasion Tester 150 (max) for heavy
resistance duty
(mm3 loss)

1.10 Specifications for Laces


Tensile Strength in N/lace Tensile Tester >200 for normal shoes
>500 for work shoes
% Elongation at break Tensile Tester 25-30
Abrasion resistance PFI-Lace >3000 for casual wear
Abrasion tester 5000 for day to day wear
Attachment of bodkin Tensile Tester >150
Strength (N/lace)
Colour fastness Visual

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