Spunbond facing and faced insulation assembly
AssigneeJohns Manville
InventorsRalph Michael Fay, Blake Boyd Bogrett
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Abstract
A faced building insulation assembly includes a first facing forming a first major surface of the assembly with a central field portion having one or more spunbond continuous polymeric filament mat layers. Preferably, the facing is fungi growth resistant and has a selected water vapor permeance rating as applied to an insulation layer of the assembly. The facing may also include one or more polymeric film layers, a fungi growth inhibiting agent, a pesticide, and/or a heat activated bonding agent that bonds the facing to the insulation layer of the assembly. The insulation assembly may also include a second facing forming a second major surface of the assembly that has a water vapor permeance rating equal to or differing from the first facing.
Claims5
A faced building insulation assembly for insulating wall, ceiling, floor and roof cavities, comprising;
- a fibrous insulation layer;
- the insulation layer having a length, a width and a thickness;
- the insulation layer having first and second major surfaces defined by the length and width of the layer;
- a first facing overlaying the first major surface of the insulation layer forming a first major surface of the faced building insulation assembly;
- the first facing comprising a spunbond continuous polymeric filament mat that consists essentially of continuous filaments selected from a group consisting of polyester, polypropylene, and polyethylene filaments;
- the first facing being fungi growth resistant;
- and the first facing, as bonded to the insulation layer, being fungi growth resistant;
- a heat activated, open polymeric web or mesh, polymeric particulate, or fiberized polymer bonding layer, having a lower softening point than the spunbond continuous polymeric filament mat of the first facing, located between the first facing and the first major surface of the insulation layer;
- the first facing being bonded to the first major surface of the insulation layer by the bonding layer;
- a second facing bonded to the second major surface of the insulation layer;
- the second facing forming a second major surface of the faced building insulation assembly;
- the first facing, as bonded to the first major surface of the insulation layer, having a water vapor permeance rating that of about 5 perms or greater so that the first major surface of the faced building insulation assembly formed by the first facing has a water vapor permeance rating of about 5 perms or greater;
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- the second facing, as bonded to the second major surface of the insulation layer, having water vapor permeance rating of about 1 perm or less so that the second major surface of the faced building insulation assembly has a water vapor permeance rating of about 1 perm or less.
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