Mineral wool product
AssigneeRockwool A/S
InventorThomas Hjelmgaard
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of bonding together surfaces of two or more elements, whereby at least one of the two or more elements is a mineral wool element, said mineral wool element(s) being bound by a mineral wool binder, the method comprising the steps of providing two or more elements; applying an adhesive to one or more of the surfaces to be bonded together before, during or after contacting the surfaces to be bonded together with each other; curing the adhesive, wherein the adhesive comprises at least one protein; at least one phenol and/or quinone containing compound, and/or at least one enzyme.
Claims18
A method of bonding together surfaces of two or more elements at least one of which is a mineral wool element which comprises man-made vitreous fibers bonded together by a cured mineral wool binder, wherein the method comprises providing the two or more elements, applying an adhesive to one or more surfaces of the two or more elements to be bonded together, followed by contacting the surfaces to be bonded together with each other, and curing the adhesive to thereby bond the two or more surfaces together, the adhesive comprising (i) at least one protein, and (ii) at least one phenol and/or quinone containing compound, the at least one protein comprising lysine and/or cysteine and a mass ratio of lysine plus cysteine in the at least one protein to phenol plus quinone in the at least one phenol and/or quinone containing compound present in the adhesive being from 1:5.78 to 1:0.08.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.