Fire barrier device

• US 5,105,592 A
• Filed: 11/13/1990
• Issued: 04/21/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fire Barrier Installations Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Fire Barrier Installations Incorporated
• Inventors: Fields, Tracy L., MacMillan, George S.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/611,711
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 52/232, 52/221, 52/573, 52/1, 138/149, 277/26
• US Class Current: 52/232
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 5/04 to form a firebreak device

Abstract

In accordance with the invention there is provided a fire barrier device for stopping passage of fire through openings in partitions for plastic pipe. The device includes an outer metallic sleeve; a radially extending flange attached to one end of the sleeve; an inner, tubular, non-metallic coupling axially disposed between the sleeve and the plastic pipe, spaced radially inward from the sleeve, forming a space between the sleeve and the coupling; a wrapping or filling of intumescent material that fills that space; and a layer of caulking material abutting an end surface of the wrapping of intrumescent material.

Claims

1. A fire barrier device for stopping passage of fire through an opening in a partition for plastic pipe, comprising an outer metallic sleeve extending into said opening;

an inner, tubular, non-metallic coupling coaxially disposed between said sleeve and said plastic pipe, spaced radially inward from said sleeve forming a space between the sleeve and the coupling;

a wrapping of intumescent material filling said space; and

a layer of caulking material abutting an end surface of said wrapping to prevent gases and hot air from passing from one side of the partition to the other side through the wrapping of intumescent material.

2. A fire barrier device according to claim 1, wherein said layer of caulking is disposed abutting either end surface of said wrapping.

3. A fire barrier device according to claim 1, including securing means for axially securing said coupling to said sleeve.

4. A fire barrier according to claim 3, wherein said securing means include a plurality of shoulder screws circumferentially disposed about said sleeve, penetrating said sleeve and said wrapping of intumescent material, and engaging said tubular coupling.

5. A fire barrier device according to claim 4, wherein said shoulder screws penetrate said tubular coupling.

6. A fire barrier according to claim 5 wherein said shoulder screws penetrate said tubular coupling to substantially mid-depth of said tubular coupling.

7. A fire barrier according to claim 1, wherein said tubular coupling is made of polyvinyl chloride.

8. A fire barrier according to claim 1, wherein said partition is a slab of concrete of a given thickness, and said sleeve has a length substantially equal to the thickness of said slab.

9. A fire barrier according to claim 1, wherein said sleeve is made of galvanized steel.

10. A fire barrier according to claim 9, wherein said galvanized steel is of a thickness of at least thirty gauge.

11. A fire barrier according to claim 1, additionally comprising a radially extending flange attached to one end of said sleeve.

12. A fire barrier according to claim 11, wherein said flange is welded to said sleeve.

13. A fire barrier device for stopping passage of fire through openings in partitions for plastic pipe, comprising an outer metallic sleeve;

a radially extending flange attached to one end of said sleeve;

an inner, tubular, non-metallic coupling coaxially disposed between said sleeve and said plastic pipe, spaced radially inward from said sleeve forming a space between the sleeve and the coupling;

a wrapping of intumescent material filling said space; and

a layer of caulking material abutting an end surface of said wrapping, including securing means for axially securing said coupling to said sleeve, wherein said securing means include a plurality of shoulder screws circumferentially disposed about said sleeve, penetrating said sleeve and said wrapping of intumescent material, and engaging said tubular coupling.

14. A fire barrier as in claim 13, wherein said shoulder screws penetrate said tubular coupling.

15. A fire barrier as in claim 14, wherein said shoulder screws penetrate said tubular coupling to substantially mid-depth of said tubular coupling.