Method of manufacturing flame and abuse resistant fiber panel and products resulting
AssigneeUnited States Gypsum Company
InventorMohammad H. Ali
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing flame and abuse resistant fiber panels by treating the surface of water-laid fiber mats with an aqeuous slurry of sodium silicate and calicum carbonate and drying the mats is disclosed. The slurry is applied to the wet mat after wet pressing and before drying while the mat still contains considerable moisture content. The resulting products present a hard, abuse resistant, flame resistant and water resistant surface.
Claims10
A process of manufacturing a flame resistant and water resistant surface on a fiberboard panel comprising:
- forming a water-laid mat of multiple layers of fiber, to have a moisture content between about 40-70% by weight of water;
- coating a surface of the wet mat with an aqueous slurry of about 20-60% by weight calcium carbonate and about 80-40% by weight sodium silicate solution;
- said silicate solution having a weight ratio of SiO.sub.2 /Na.sub.2 O.sub.3 ranging between about 2.5 and 3.3, having an alkali silicate solids weight content between about 30% and 55%, and having a viscosity between about 50 and 500 centipoises at 70.degree. F.;
- and drying the coated mat at a temperature between about 300.degree. and about 450.degree. F.
A fiberboard product having a flame and water resistant surface comprising a wood fiber insulation board mat having coated on at least one surface thereof the dry solids from the application of an aqueous slurry containing by weight about 20-60% calcium carbonate solids and about 10-40% sodium silicate solids having a SiO.sub.2 /Na.sub.2 O.sub.3 weight ratio of between about 2.5 and 3.3 to the board mat when the mat contains about 40-70 weight % moisture and dried at a temperature between about 300.degree. and about 450.degree. F.
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