NTERNATIONAL STANDARD (Tso 2036 NTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION -MEKIYHAPOIHA OPFAHM3ALIW HIO CTAHIAPTH3ALIWH·ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION Wood for manufacture of wood flooring -- Symbols for marking according to species Bois pour la fabrication des parquets - Symboles pour marquage selon les especes First edition - 1976-03-01 SO 2036-1976 (E) UDC 691.11.025.35 : 674.03 : 003.62 Ref. No. ISO 2036-1976 (E) Descriptors : construction materiais, floors, wood, symbols, marking Price based on 4 pages Not for Resale FOREWORD Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards institutes (IsO Member Bodies). The work of developing Member Body interested in a subject for which a Technical Committee has been set up has the right to be represented on that Committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with IsO, also take part in the work. Draft International Standards adopted by the Technical Committees are circulated to the Member Bodies for approval before their acceptance as International Standards by the ISo Council. Prior to 1972, the resuits of the work of the Technical Committees were published as iso Recommendations; these documents are now in the process of being transformed into International Standards. As part of this process, Technical Committee ISO/TC 99 has reviewed IS0 Recommendation R 2036 and found it technically suitable for transformation.International Standard ISO2036therefore replaces IS0 Recommendation R 2036-1971 to which it is technically identical. iSO Recommendation R 2036 was approved by the Member Bodics of the following countries : Belgium Hungary Romania Czechoslovakia Iran Spain Egypt, Arab Rep. of Italy Turkey Norway France U.S.S.R. Peru Greece Yugoslavia The Member Bodies of the following countries expressed disapproval of the Recommendation on technical grounds : Germany New Zealand South Africa, Rep. of The Member Bodies of the following countries disapproved the transformation of ISO/R 2036 into an International Standard : Austria Germany @ International Organization for Standardization, 1976 : Printed in Switzerland ed without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 2036-1976(E) INTERNATIONAL STANDARD Wood for manufacture of wood flooring - Symbols for marking according to species 1 SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION b)the first letter of the species name. This International Standard specifies a marking system for Example : KHAS = Khaya senegalensis A. Juss wood, according to the species, utilized in the manufacture NOTE -- The name of the genus to be used shall be the scientifio of wood floorings. name; the secondary scientific names or the vernacular names shall not be used. 2 MARKING For example : use the name Pericopsis elata van Meeuwen and not Afrormosia The marking of the wood species shall be made by a symbol elata Harms (secondary name); use the name Burkea africana Hook., and not Mukarati points and not followed by a fuli stop. (vernacular name). Example : ACEP 4 CODE OF SYMBOLS 3 SYMBOL In order to facilitate the marking of the wood species more 3.1 When the species of one genus differ only from the commonly used in the manufacture of wood flooring, a code point of view of the utilization characteristics, the symbol of symbols is given in the annex. The code comprises the scientific designation of the species, the symbol, the more shall comprise : usual French and English designations and the "pilot names" a) the first three letters of the genus name; provided by the Association technique internationale des bois tropicaux and completed for the non-tropical series. b) the letter X, indicating that any species of the respective genus is concerned. This code is not confined to the species shown and additions can be made according to the rules given in 3.1 and 3.2. Example : BETX = Betula sp. NOTE -- When the name of a species begins with the same letter as 3.2 When characteristic