Fire resistant steel door
AssigneeRadixx/World Ltd.
InventorJohn S. Luckanuck
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Abstract
In order to provide a steel door with a fire rating sufficient to satisfy the Fire Regulations in North America which require in the fire rating endurance test that the temperature of the unexposed side of the steel door not to rise by more than 250.degree. F. over a period of one hour, the steel door is provided with a high density bonded mineral fiber sheet as its core which is bonded to the inside surfaces of the steel sheets forming the outside surfaces of the door by a binder comprising a mixture of an alkali metal silicate and a mineral powder selected from aluminium trihydrate and wollastenite, the powder being present in an amount sufficient to cause said binder on being subjected to high temperature to intumesce thus protecting said sheet against the heat.
Claims9
A steel door having steel sheets forming the outside surfaces of the door including a fire retardant core bonded to the inside surfaces of said steel sheets, said core being a stiff, high density bonded mineral fiber sheet sheet having a phenolic resin content of about 4 to about 10% by weight bonded to the inside surfaces of the steel sheets by a binder comprising a liquid alkali metal silicate admixed with a mineral powder in an amount sufficient that on said binder being subjected to high temperatures it intumesces to form a non-porous ceramic layer between the inside surfaces of the steel sheets and the mineral fiber sheet thereby protecting said mineral fiber sheet from said high temperature.
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