Intumescent floor opening frame

• US 6,848,227 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2002
• Issued: 02/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Columbia-MBF, Inc. (Atkore, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Royal Group Technologies Limited (Royal Group Technologies)
• Inventors: Whitty, Larry
• Primary Examiner(s): Canfield, Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/260,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20040016191A1
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: 522/32, 522/208, 52/1, 174/48, 277/615
• US Class Current: 52/232
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 5/04 to form a firebreak device
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/22 Installations of cables or lines through walls, floors or ceilings, e.g. into buildings

Abstract

A frame for bordering conduit access through a building floor has a rigid body portion and a lining of intumescent material on an interior surface of the rigid body portion. The intumescent material has sufficient expansion capacity to close off the opening through the frame under conditions which produce an intumescing of the lining. The rigid body portion itself is preferably made of a metallic material to enhance transfer of heat energy from the rigid body portion to the lining of the frame.

Claims

1. A framing assembly comprising first and second frame members for bordering top and bottom sides of a conduit opening through a building floor, each of said frame members comprising a rigid body portion with a conduit passage therethrough, said assembly further including a rigid cover securable atop said first frame ember to one side of the conduit passage through the first frame ember, said second frame member being provided with a lining of intumescent material around the conduit passage through said second frame member, the intumescent material having sufficient expansion capacity to close off the conduit passage through the second frame member under conditions which produce an intumescing of the lining.

2. A framing assembly as claimed in claim 1 in which the rigid body portion of the second frame member is made of a metallic material to enhance transfer of heat energy therefrom to said lining of said second frame member.

3. A framing assembly a claimed in claim 1 wherein said second frame member includes a frame panning member extending across said second frame member, said frame spanning member defining one side of the conduit passage through said second frame member and also defining one side of a second opening through said second frame member, said lining of intumescent material being provided to both sides of said frame spanning member and also interiorly on said second frame member around said second opening through said second frame member such that said conduit passage and said second opening through said second frame member are bordered by the intumescent material, the intumescent material having sufficient expansion capacity to close off both said conduit passage and said second opening under conditions which produce an intumescing of said intumescent material.

4. A frame as claimed in claim 3 wherein said frame spanning member is moveable to adjust size of said conduit passage and said second opening through said second frame member.

5. A frame as claimed in claim 3 wherein said lining of intumescent material comprises a plastic based extruded material bonded to said second frame member.

6. A frame as claimed in claim 5 wherein said intumescent material comprises graphite in a polyvinyl chloride carrier.