EN 14035-20:2005

Fireworks - Part 20: Jumping crackers - Specification and test methods

Publication date:   Sep 25, 2006

Scope

This document specifies requirements for the construction, performance, primary packaging and labelling of jumping crackers and the corresponding test methods. It is applicable to fireworks which are classified as jumping crackers in Category 2 in EN 14035-2, which contain pyrotechnic report composition that is black powder and which are contained in a primary pack.
It is not applicable to jumping crackers containing pyrotechnic composition that includes any of the following substances:
- arsenic or arsenic compounds;
- mixtures containing a mass fraction of chlorates greater than 80 %;
- mixtures of chlorates with metals;
- mixtures of chlorates with red phosphorus;
- mixtures of chlorates with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II);
- mixtures of chlorates with sulfur;
- mixtures of chlorates with sulfides;
- lead or lead compounds;
- mercury compounds;
- white phosphorus;
- picrates or picric acid;
- potassium chlorate with a mass fraction of bromates greater than 0,15 %;
- sulfur with an acidity, expressed as mass fraction of sulfuric acid, greater than 0,002 %;
- zirconium with a particle size of less than 40 mm.
NOTE In EN 14035-2, jumping crackers are classified as follows:
- brief description: paper tube containing black powder, folded back on itself several times and bound together;
- principal effects: reports in succession, with jumping motion.
Schemes for type testing of jumping crackers and batch testing of jumping crackers are specified in Annex A and Annex B respectively.