Fire-resistant glazing

• US 5,698,277 A
• Filed: 07/10/1996
• Issued: 12/16/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
• Original Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
• Inventors: Nieven, Jakob, Schueller, Franz, Geith, Andreas, Linden, Ralf
• Primary Examiner(s): LONEY, DONALD J
• Application Number:
  US08/678,021
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 428/34, 428/131, 428/137, 428/364, 428/192, 428/920, 428/921, 52/786.13, 52/232
• US Class Current: 428/34
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/66333 of unusual substances, e.g. wood or other fibrous materials, glass or other transparent materials
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 5/165 Fireproof windows layered glass panes with expansion layers for fire protection B32B17/10311
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/92 Fire or heat protection feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/921 Fire or flameproofing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24322 Composite web or sheet

Abstract

A fire-resistant glazing system has two silicate glass sheets (1, 2) which are kept at a distance at the edge via a spacer frame and via adhesive layers (6, 7, 8) and are connected to one another in a sealing manner. The interspace is filled with a hydrogel (9) containing a water-soluble salt. The spacer frame (3, 4, 5) comprises silicate glass strips. The lower thermal conduction of the glass strips compared with known spacer frames made from steel delays warming, which generally results in destruction of the glass sheet, of the edge region of the glass sheet facing away from the fire source. This enables a greater fire resistance period to he achieved for the same thickness of the glazing. Fire protection glasses having the same fire resistance classes, but lower thickness, can thus be produced.

Claims

1. Fire-resistant glazing comprising at least two glass sheets having edges, said sheets being connected to one another at their edges in a sealing manner by a spacer in the form of a spacer frame and whose interspace is filled with a hydrogel containing a water-soluble salt, characterized in that the spacer frame between the two glass sheets (1, 2) comprises a heat-resistant material having a coefficient of thermal conductivity of <

2 kcal/mhK.

2. Fire-resistant glazing according to claim 1, characterized in that the spacer frame comprises rods of ceramic material.

3. Fire-resistant glazing according to claim 1, characterized in that the spacer frame comprises silicate glass strips (3, 4, 5).

4. Fire-resistant glazing according to claim 3, characterized in that two silicate glass strips (5) of the spacer frame which are arranged opposite one another are each provided, in the region of their diagonally opposite ends, with a hole (10) or with a corner cutout as filling or air-removal aperture.

5. Fire-resistant glazing according to any one of the preceeding claims, characterized in that surfaces of the spacer frame in contact with the hydrogel are handled with a primer, of which, in case of silicate glass, a primer on the basis of a silane able to react with the C-C double or triple bonds of the hydrogel or on the basis of organic titanates or zirconates.