A unit of thermal resistance used to describe textiles. It was mainly used to describe how “warm” duvets, sleeping bags and baby buntings were. One tog is one square meter-Kelvin per watt, multiplied by ten and rounded to the nearest whole number.
Some typical values:
| Thermal Resistance in togs |
|
|---|---|
| sheet of polyethylene | 2 |
| baby bunting | 2.5 |
| summer quilt or sleeping bag | 4 |
| winter quilt or sleeping bag | 12 |
The tog was devised by the Shirley Institute in Britain in the 1960's, who also produced an instrument to measure it, the Shirley Togometer.
The tog is often converted into the clo at the rate of 1 tog = 0.645 clo. However, the clo measures clothing, the tog measures cloth.
The tog has been replaced by the comfort ratings required by European Norms, EN13537 for sleeping bags and EN12934 for quilts.
BS4745
British standard describing the tog test.
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