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broad surface moves air, including fixed and folding forms and examples used ceremonially or decoratively; product designs and individual specimens are instances described through this model.", "in_scope": [ "Recognition of fixed and folding hand fans", "Air-moving surface, grip and manual operation", "Opening geometry and mechanisms where present", "Materials, attachments and condition affecting use", "Decoration, documented cultural roles and handling constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Powered handheld fans with motor-driven blades", "Ceiling fans, desk fans and other installed air-moving equipment", "Bellows and other chamber-based air pumps", "Room ventilation systems and thermal comfort models", "Performances, ceremonies and dress ensembles in which a fan participates" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The user moves the implement itself through the air using a grip or handle; a powered rotor does not generate its airflow.", "Its intended air-moving action uses an exposed broad surface rather than air expelled from a compressed chamber.", "A fixed surface can qualify: folding is an optional construction feature, not the defining test.", "A folding example opens into a usable air-moving surface; foldability alone does not distinguish it from an umbrella or folding screen.", "Purpose, design or documented identity distinguishes a hand fan from a card, plate or other object temporarily waved for cooling." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Construction form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "fixed surface; folding leaf on supports; folding slats; other; undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Determines recognition, opening requirements and likely vulnerable components." }, { "name": "Open dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "maximum width and height in mm, with measurement orientation recorded", "why_it_matters": "Describes the working envelope and clearance needed for use or display." }, { "name": "Closed dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length, width and thickness in mm; not applicable for nonfolding forms", "why_it_matters": "Supports storage and transport decisions without assuming every fan folds." }, { "name": "Mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess carrying burden and suitability for repeated manual movement." }, { "name": "Air-moving surface", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "continuous sheet; overlapping slats; woven surface; feathered surface; mixed; other", "why_it_matters": "Identifies how the working surface is formed and where damage may interrupt it." }, { "name": "Component materials", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "surface, supports, grip, pivot and decoration linked to identified or uncertain materials", "why_it_matters": "Material combinations influence flexibility, cleaning and preservation choices." }, { "name": "Opening state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "fixed; closed; partly open; fully open; jammed; 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"routine fanning; restricted operation; display only; assessment required", "why_it_matters": "Separates physical operability from permission to operate a fragile or culturally significant fan." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an example as a fixed or folding hand fan and distinguish it from a powered fan.", "Determine whether and how a folding fan may be opened or closed.", "Assess suitability for manual fanning from grip, mass, clearance and condition.", "Locate damage in the surface, supports or joints and restrict affected actions.", "Choose supported storage or display arrangements for its construction and condition.", "Record decoration and attributed cultural uses with evidence and uncertainty." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "fan-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Fan identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what makes an example a hand fan and which construction form it represents.", "rationale": "A broad surface, a folding mechanism or a 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"surface-deployment-form", "name": "Surface deployment form", "description": "Describe whether the working surface is permanently spread, unfolds on supports or is formed by spreading slats.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the broad air-moving surface formed and, if applicable, deployed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "surface-deployment-form-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed features distinguish this form from a miniature umbrella, screen or incidental fanning object?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "surface-deployment-form-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "manual-fanning-and-control", "name": "Manual fanning and control", "description": "Describes the hand-powered action, working envelope and evidence of useful air movement.", "rationale": "A hand fan's practical performance depends on how it is held and moved as well as its surface.", "layers": [ { "id": "grip-and-stroke", "name": "Grip and stroke", "description": "Records the intended holding area and clearance for repeated movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-fanning-motion", "name": "Usable fanning motion", "description": "Identify a supported grip and motion that avoid stressing the surface or striking nearby people and objects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can the fan be held without loading a fragile leaf, decorative attachment or loose support?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-fanning-motion-q01" }, { "text": "What are its mass and open dimensions, and what clearance does the intended stroke require?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-fanning-motion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "air-movement-assessment", "name": "Air movement assessment", "description": "Keeps observations of airflow tied to explicit operating conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-airflow-performance", "name": "Conditional airflow performance", "description": "Record airflow or user observations with opening state, distance and fanning motion rather than treating performance as a fixed property.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under what opening state, stroke rate, stroke range and distance was air movement assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditional-airflow-performance-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed air movement meet the stated use need without requiring unsafe handling?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-airflow-performance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-supports-and-opening", "name": "Surface, supports and opening", "description": "Maps the fan's working surface to its supporting parts and deployment mechanism.", "rationale": "Fixed sheets, supported leaves and linked slats require different checks and handling actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-support-assembly", "name": "Surface and support assembly", "description": "Records how materials and attachments form a surface that tolerates fanning.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-and-attachment-map", "name": "Component and attachment map", "description": "Identify the surface, supporting sticks or frame, grip and their 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and closed without forcing resistance or trapping its surface?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-opening-sequence-q02" }, { "text": "What opening range is supported by observation or documentation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-opening-sequence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-care-and-use-readiness", "name": "Damage, care and use readiness", "description": "Connects fan-specific defects to decisions about operation, repair, cleaning and storage.", "rationale": "A fan may still open despite damage that makes repeated waving or further folding inappropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-joint-failures", "name": "Surface and joint failures", "description": "Checks the working surface, folds, supports and grip connections before use.", "findings": [ { "id": "defect-to-action-assessment", "name": "Defect-to-action assessment", "description": "Locate tears, split sticks, loose pivots, failing attachments or sharp fragments and relate each observation to permitted 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"kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a hand fan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a hand fan from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hand fan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a hand fan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", 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"id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a hand fan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a hand fan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a hand fan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a hand fan is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a hand fan is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a hand fan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a hand fan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a hand fan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a hand fan is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a hand fan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a hand fan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a hand fan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a hand fan passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and 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observed about a hand fan, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hand fan is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a hand fan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a hand fan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a hand fan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What hand fan is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does hand fan perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise hand fan, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How hand fan is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", 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"service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about hand fan is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about hand fan hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern hand fan, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a hand fan came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that 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and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a hand fan is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hand fan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a hand fan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a hand fan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }