EP0735187B1 - A sheet of cellulosic fibers - Google Patents
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- D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D21H13/00—Pulp or paper, comprising synthetic cellulose or non-cellulose fibres or web-forming material
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- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- D21H21/14—Non-fibrous material added to the pulp, characterised by its function, form or properties; Paper-impregnating or coating material, characterised by its function, form or properties characterised by function or properties in or on the paper
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- the present invention relates to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers and to an article of manufacture comprising a flammable surface adhesively bonded to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers.
- the present invention relates to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers in the form of paper containing dispersed particles of intercalated, i.e. intumescent material graphite which can be applied to a flammable article as a fire-resistant covering.
- a continuing effort in the building supply industry is to improve the fire resistance of flammable materials of construction and related materials such as wood products (particle board, oriented strand board), wall board, shipping boxes, bags and like.
- Such effort has involved the addition of chemicals, such as borates and phosphates to the binder system of the flammable materials, which, at times resulted in degradation of the properties and useful life of the materials.
- DE-A-4007060 (Bayer AG) discloses an intumescent pressed sheet-material containing cellulosic fibres, expandable graphite, and optionally a binder, manufactured by a paper making technique, with up to 98% by weight of graphite being included.
- EP-A-0408098 discloses an intumescent sheet material having a matrix whose predominant ingredient comprises ball clay reinforced by inorganic vitreous fibre and contains heat-expandable graphite as an intumescent agent and up to 10 percent by weight of an organic binder, manufactured by a paper making technique.
- a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibres which contains a dispersion of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, said sheet having a pair of opposed outer surfaces at least a portion of which is formed of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, with a thermosetting resin dispersed in the sheet for bonding together cellulosic fibres and intercalated graphite particles, said resin being present in an amount such that a surface of the sheet can be bonded by said resin to a contacting flammable surface.
- the present invention thus provides a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers in the form of a paper sheet containing co-pressed particles of intercalated natural graphite particles, also known as intumescent graphite particles. These particles, upon exposure to high temperature, e.g. a flame, expand in volume more than 50 to 100 times, i.e. exfoliate into vermicular, worm-like structures (called "worms").
- the cellulosic paper sheet containing the intumescent, i.e. intercalated graphite particles is rendered highly fire-resistant due to the decrease in thermal conductivity of the graphite particles upon the exfoliation which results from exposure to flame.
- the exfoliated graphite vermicular particles, i.e. worms virtually cover the exposed paper surface and form a flame barrier. Any substrate to which the aforedescribed paper is bonded, or article enclosed in such paper, is provided protection from fire damage.
- thermosetting resin incorporated in the sheet acts as an adhesive binder which also can bond the sheet to a flammable surface which the sheet then protects.
- an article of manufacture comprising a flammable surface adhesively bonded to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fiber which contains a dispersion of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, said sheet having a pair of opposed surfaces at least a portion of which is formed of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, with a thermosetting resin dispersed in the sheet for bonding together cellulosic fibers and intercalated graphite particles, said resin being present in an amount such that a surface of the sheet is bonded by said resin to the contacting flammable surface, one of said surfaces being in contact with said flammable surface and the other of said surfaces constituting an outer surface of said article.
- cellulosic fibers e.g. wood, straw, bagasse, flax, cotton and the like are pulped, i.e. separated and suspended in water slurry.
- Materials such as mineral pigments, sizing, dyes and other coloring chemicals, starches and other fiber bonding materials, are added to the pulp which is then drained, i.e. dewatered, pressed and dried.
- Fourdrinier machines and evaporative drying by pressing a heated surface on the wet paper are employed to make a cellulosic paper sheet.
- Particles of intercalated natural graphite i.e. intumescent graphite are added to the cellulosic fiber pulp (which may contain other additives such as noted above) and dispersed in the pulp slurry.
- the added intercalated graphite particles are mostly, i.e. 60% by weight or more, in the size range of 30 to 80 mesh (U.S. screen series) and the amount added is suitably in the range of 40 to 80 grams per square metre of the paper sheet being produced typically from 0.015 cm to 0.15 cm thick (0.006 to 0.060 inch thick).
- the paper sheet is prepared by dewatering, pressing and drying in the usual manner.
- the resulting product is shown in Figure 1 which is a 1:1 scale view of the surface of paper sheet.
- Figure 2 is an enlarged representation of a sectional side, or edge view, of the paper sheet and Figure 2A is an enlarged plan view of a part of the surface of the sheet of Figure 2.
- the paper sheet 10, shown in Figures 1-3 is formed of pressed cellulosic fiber sheet indicated at 20 which contains a dispersion of co-pressed particles of intercalated graphite indicated at 30.
- the pressing of a wet sheet of cellulosic fibers containing intercalated graphite particles results in some flattening of the intercalated graphite particles, particularly at the surface of the sheet 10 as indicated at 300. This results in at least a portion, e.g.
- the surface exposed intercalated graphite particles expand in volume, up to 500 times and form a thermal barrier virtually covering the surface exposed to the flame which instantly extinguishes any burning portion of the paper.
- thermosetting resin e.g. water soluble phenolic resin
- a thermosetting resin e.g. water soluble phenolic resin
- the cellulosic fibers and intercalated graphite particles are adhesively bonded due to exposure to drying temperatures of 60 tc 100°C which cause a partial setting of the resin.
- a portion of the partially set resin, in the form of flattened globules, is exposed at the surface as indicated at 400 in Figures 3) and 3(A).
- the paper containing intercalated graphite and partially set resin is placed in contact with the surface of a flammable element, e.g. wood based, wall board and pressure is applied to the resin containing paper at temperatures of from about 70 to 120°C to fully set the resin and cause adhesive bonding of the intercalated graphite-containing paper to the surface of the flammable element.
- a flammable wooden substrate is shown at 500 having an outer surface 510 and an overlying intercalated graphite containing paper sheet 10 which has been heated and pressed against surface 510 so that an adhesive layer 520 of thermoset resin is formed which bonds sheet 10 to wooden substrate 500.
- the resulting article is a flammable wooden element having at its outer surface an adhesively resin bonded sheet of paper which contains a dispersion of intercalated graphite particles 300' at its outer surface.
- the particles 300 undergo intumescence and expand to form "worms" 3000 shown in Figure 5 which suppress the flame and protect substrate 500 from fire damage.
- the intercalated graphite included in the present invention is essentially that which is used in the graphite composite wall covering material disclosed in US-A-5,176,863.
- graphite is a crystalline form of carbon comprising atoms bonded in flat layered planes with weaker bonds between the planes.
- the particles of intercalated graphite Upon exposure to high temperature, the particles of intercalated graphite expand in dimension as much as 80 or more times its original volume in an accordion-like fashion in the c-direction, i.e. in the direction perpendicular to the crystalline planes of the graphite.
- the exfoliated graphite particles are vermiform in appearance, and are therefore commonly referred to as worms.
- Shane et al A common method for manufacturing graphite foil from flexible graphite is described by Shane et al, in US-A-3,404,061.
- natural graphite flakes are intercalated by dispersing the flakes in a solution containing an oxidizing agent of, e.g. a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acid.
- the intercalation solution contains oxidizing and other intercalating agents known in the art.
- Examples include those containing oxidizing agents and oxidizing mixtures, such a solutions containing nitric acid, potassium chlorate, chromic acid, potassium permanganate, potassium chromate, potassium dichromate, perchloric acid, and the like, or mixtures, such as for example, concentrated nitric acid and chlorate, chromic acid and phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid and nitric acid, or mixtures of a strong organic acid, e.g. trifluoroacetic acid, and a strong oxidizing agent soluble in the organic acid.
- a preferred intercalating agent is a solution of a mixture of sulfuric acid, or sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid, and an oxidizing agent, i.e. nitric acid, perchloric acid, chromic acid, potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide, iodic or periodic acids, or the like.
- the intercalation solutions may contain metal halides such as ferric chloride and ferric chloride mixed with sulfuric acid, or halide, such as bromine as a solution of bromine and sulfuric acid or bromine in an organic solvent.
- the quantity of the intercalation solution may be limited to between 10 to 50 parts of solution per hundred parts of graphite by weight (pph) which permits the washing step to be eliminated as taught and described in US-A-4,895,713.
- Particles of exfoliated graphite of intercalated graphite flake possess substantial fire retardant properties. Thie results from a decrease in thermal conductivity when exposed to high temperature such as in the presence of a fire. This decrease in thermal conductivity is attributable to its expansion at high temperature. An expansion in thickness of 1 to 5 times the unexpanded thickness has been realized from unexfoliated particles of intercalated graphite.
- Recycled cellulose fiber was slurried in a solution consisting of 4 % by weight w/o Ashland 72115W55 phenolic-based resin in water for 30 seconds in a Waring blender on low speed.
- Intumescent natural graphite treated flake particles (ntercalated graphite), UCAR Grade TG-388, was added and mixed for 5 seconds; excess solution was filtered from the mixture to form a cake which was oven dried at 60°C to remove the water. The cake was then flattened to a paper approximately 0.1cm (0.04 inches) thick between heated (60°C) platens.
- compositions consisted of 43.04, 64.56 and 86.08 grams of treated flake (intercalated flake) per square metre (4, 6, and 8 grams of treated flake (intercalated flake) per square foot) of paper sheet; cellulose 172.16 grams per square metre (16 grams/square foot) of paper sheet; and a resin content of about 21.52 grams per square metre (2 grams/square foot) of paper sheet.
- the intercalated flake was in the form of particles sized 50% through 40 mesh (U.S. Screen Series).
- sheets could be bonded to wood, OSB (oriented strand board), or plywood by pressing between platens at about 120°C.
- compositions were tested in two ways:
- the invention is amenable to standard Fourdrinier paper processing; prepared paper may be bonded to board products in the hot-pressure-cure step.
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- The present invention relates to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers and to an article of manufacture comprising a flammable surface adhesively bonded to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers.
- More particularly, the present invention relates to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers in the form of paper containing dispersed particles of intercalated, i.e. intumescent material graphite which can be applied to a flammable article as a fire-resistant covering.
- A continuing effort in the building supply industry is to improve the fire resistance of flammable materials of construction and related materials such as wood products (particle board, oriented strand board), wall board, shipping boxes, bags and like. Such effort has involved the addition of chemicals, such as borates and phosphates to the binder system of the flammable materials, which, at times resulted in degradation of the properties and useful life of the materials.
- DE-A-4007060 (Bayer AG) discloses an intumescent pressed sheet-material containing cellulosic fibres, expandable graphite, and optionally a binder, manufactured by a paper making technique, with up to 98% by weight of graphite being included.
- EP-A-0408098 (T-N Technology Ltd) discloses an intumescent sheet material having a matrix whose predominant ingredient comprises ball clay reinforced by inorganic vitreous fibre and contains heat-expandable graphite as an intumescent agent and up to 10 percent by weight of an organic binder, manufactured by a paper making technique.
- Thus, there remains a need for increasing the fire resistance of flammable materials of construction and related materials.
- According to the present invention there is provided a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibres which contains a dispersion of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, said sheet having a pair of opposed outer surfaces at least a portion of which is formed of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, with a thermosetting resin dispersed in the sheet for bonding together cellulosic fibres and intercalated graphite particles, said resin being present in an amount such that a surface of the sheet can be bonded by said resin to a contacting flammable surface.
- The present invention thus provides a sheet of pressed cellulosic fibers in the form of a paper sheet containing co-pressed particles of intercalated natural graphite particles, also known as intumescent graphite particles. These particles, upon exposure to high temperature, e.g. a flame, expand in volume more than 50 to 100 times, i.e. exfoliate into vermicular, worm-like structures (called "worms"). The cellulosic paper sheet containing the intumescent, i.e. intercalated graphite particles, is rendered highly fire-resistant due to the decrease in thermal conductivity of the graphite particles upon the exfoliation which results from exposure to flame. The exfoliated graphite vermicular particles, i.e. worms, virtually cover the exposed paper surface and form a flame barrier. Any substrate to which the aforedescribed paper is bonded, or article enclosed in such paper, is provided protection from fire damage.
- The thermosetting resin incorporated in the sheet acts as an adhesive binder which also can bond the sheet to a flammable surface which the sheet then protects.
- According to a further feature of the present invention there is provided an article of manufacture comprising a flammable surface adhesively bonded to a sheet of pressed cellulosic fiber which contains a dispersion of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, said sheet having a pair of opposed surfaces at least a portion of which is formed of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, with a thermosetting resin dispersed in the sheet for bonding together cellulosic fibers and intercalated graphite particles, said resin being present in an amount such that a surface of the sheet is bonded by said resin to the contacting flammable surface, one of said surfaces being in contact with said flammable surface and the other of said surfaces constituting an outer surface of said article.
- The present invention will now be further described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
- Fig. 1 is a top view of the surface of a paper sheet showing dispersed particles of intercalated graphite;
- Fig. 2 is an enlarged representation of an edge view of a paper sheet; Fig. 2(A) is a top view of the sheet of Fig. 2;
- Fig. 3 is an enlarged representation of an edge view of a paper sheet constructed in accordance with the present invention showing partially set resin in the paper;
- Fig. 3(A) is a top view of the sheet of Fig. 2(A);
- Fig. 4 shows a paper sheet constructed in accordance with the present invention bonded to a flammable substrate; and
- Fig. 5 is a top view of a portion of the paper sheet of Fig. 4 after exposure to flame.
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- The techniques for making of paper sheets from cellulosic fiber are well known. In general, cellulosic fibers, e.g. wood, straw, bagasse, flax, cotton and the like are pulped, i.e. separated and suspended in water slurry. Materials, such as mineral pigments, sizing, dyes and other coloring chemicals, starches and other fiber bonding materials, are added to the pulp which is then drained, i.e. dewatered, pressed and dried. Commonly, the well known Fourdrinier machines and evaporative drying by pressing a heated surface on the wet paper are employed to make a cellulosic paper sheet.
- Particles of intercalated natural graphite, i.e. intumescent graphite are added to the cellulosic fiber pulp (which may contain other additives such as noted above) and dispersed in the pulp slurry. The added intercalated graphite particles are mostly, i.e. 60% by weight or more, in the size range of 30 to 80 mesh (U.S. screen series) and the amount added is suitably in the range of 40 to 80 grams per square metre of the paper sheet being produced typically from 0.015 cm to 0.15 cm thick (0.006 to 0.060 inch thick). The paper sheet is prepared by dewatering, pressing and drying in the usual manner. The resulting product is shown in Figure 1 which is a 1:1 scale view of the surface of paper sheet. Figure 2 is an enlarged representation of a sectional side, or edge view, of the paper sheet and Figure 2A is an enlarged plan view of a part of the surface of the sheet of Figure 2. The
paper sheet 10, shown in Figures 1-3 is formed of pressed cellulosic fiber sheet indicated at 20 which contains a dispersion of co-pressed particles of intercalated graphite indicated at 30. The pressing of a wet sheet of cellulosic fibers containing intercalated graphite particles results in some flattening of the intercalated graphite particles, particularly at the surface of thesheet 10 as indicated at 300. This results in at least a portion, e.g. 5-25% of the surface area of thesheet 10 being in the form of exposed intercalated graphite, the balance being essentially cellulosic fibers. Upon being subjected to high temperature e.g. a flame, the surface exposed intercalated graphite particles expand in volume, up to 500 times and form a thermal barrier virtually covering the surface exposed to the flame which instantly extinguishes any burning portion of the paper. - In accordance with the present invention, a thermosetting resin, e.g. water soluble phenolic resin is added to an aqueous slurry of cellulosic fiber and intercalated graphite, suitably in an amount of 2 to 6% by weight of the water in the slurry. In the resin-containing paper resulting from the de-watering, pressing and drying of the pulp slurry, the cellulosic fibers and intercalated graphite particles are adhesively bonded due to exposure to drying temperatures of 60 tc 100°C which cause a partial setting of the resin. A portion of the partially set resin, in the form of flattened globules, is exposed at the surface as indicated at 400 in Figures 3) and 3(A). The paper containing intercalated graphite and partially set resin is placed in contact with the surface of a flammable element, e.g. wood based, wall board and pressure is applied to the resin containing paper at temperatures of from about 70 to 120°C to fully set the resin and cause adhesive bonding of the intercalated graphite-containing paper to the surface of the flammable element. With reference to Figure 4, a flammable wooden substrate is shown at 500 having an
outer surface 510 and an overlying intercalated graphite containingpaper sheet 10 which has been heated and pressed againstsurface 510 so that anadhesive layer 520 of thermoset resin is formed which bonds sheet 10wooden substrate 500. The resulting article is a flammable wooden element having at its outer surface an adhesively resin bonded sheet of paper which contains a dispersion of intercalated graphite particles 300' at its outer surface. Upon exposure to flame, theparticles 300substrate 500 from fire damage. - The intercalated graphite included in the present invention is essentially that which is used in the graphite composite wall covering material disclosed in US-A-5,176,863. In this patent it is recited that graphite is a crystalline form of carbon comprising atoms bonded in flat layered planes with weaker bonds between the planes. By treating particles of natural graphite flake, with an intercalant of e.g., a solution of sulfuric and nitric acid, the crystal structure of the graphite reacts to form a compound of graphite and the intercalant. The treated particles of graphite are hereafter referred to as "particles of intercalated graphite". Upon exposure to high temperature, the particles of intercalated graphite expand in dimension as much as 80 or more times its original volume in an accordion-like fashion in the c-direction, i.e. in the direction perpendicular to the crystalline planes of the graphite. The exfoliated graphite particles are vermiform in appearance, and are therefore commonly referred to as worms.
- A common method for manufacturing graphite foil from flexible graphite is described by Shane et al, in US-A-3,404,061. In the typical practice of the Shane et al method, natural graphite flakes are intercalated by dispersing the flakes in a solution containing an oxidizing agent of, e.g. a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acid. The intercalation solution contains oxidizing and other intercalating agents known in the art. Examples include those containing oxidizing agents and oxidizing mixtures, such a solutions containing nitric acid, potassium chlorate, chromic acid, potassium permanganate, potassium chromate, potassium dichromate, perchloric acid, and the like, or mixtures, such as for example, concentrated nitric acid and chlorate, chromic acid and phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid and nitric acid, or mixtures of a strong organic acid, e.g. trifluoroacetic acid, and a strong oxidizing agent soluble in the organic acid.
- A preferred intercalating agent is a solution of a mixture of sulfuric acid, or sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid, and an oxidizing agent, i.e. nitric acid, perchloric acid, chromic acid, potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide, iodic or periodic acids, or the like. Although less preferred, the intercalation solutions may contain metal halides such as ferric chloride and ferric chloride mixed with sulfuric acid, or halide, such as bromine as a solution of bromine and sulfuric acid or bromine in an organic solvent.
- After the graphite flakes are intercalated excess solution is drained from the flakes. After washing with water, the intercalated graphite flakes are dried and if exposed to a flame for only a few second at temperature greater than 700°C, more typically 1000°C or higher the flakes will exfoliate into "worms" with an increase in volume of 80 or more times.
- The quantity of the intercalation solution may be limited to between 10 to 50 parts of solution per hundred parts of graphite by weight (pph) which permits the washing step to be eliminated as taught and described in US-A-4,895,713.
- Particles of exfoliated graphite of intercalated graphite flake possess substantial fire retardant properties. Thie results from a decrease in thermal conductivity when exposed to high temperature such as in the presence of a fire. This decrease in thermal conductivity is attributable to its expansion at high temperature. An expansion in thickness of 1 to 5 times the unexpanded thickness has been realized from unexfoliated particles of intercalated graphite.
- The following Example will further illustrate the present invention:
- Recycled cellulose fiber was slurried in a solution consisting of 4 % by weight w/o Ashland 72115W55 phenolic-based resin in water for 30 seconds in a Waring blender on low speed. Intumescent natural graphite treated flake particles (ntercalated graphite), UCAR Grade TG-388, was added and mixed for 5 seconds; excess solution was filtered from the mixture to form a cake which was oven dried at 60°C to remove the water. The cake was then flattened to a paper approximately 0.1cm (0.04 inches) thick between heated (60°C) platens.
- Compositions consisted of 43.04, 64.56 and 86.08 grams of treated flake (intercalated flake) per square metre (4, 6, and 8 grams of treated flake (intercalated flake) per square foot) of paper sheet; cellulose 172.16 grams per square metre (16 grams/square foot) of paper sheet; and a resin content of about 21.52 grams per square metre (2 grams/square foot) of paper sheet. The intercalated flake was in the form of particles sized 50% through 40 mesh (U.S. Screen Series). For test purposes, sheets could be bonded to wood, OSB (oriented strand board), or plywood by pressing between platens at about 120°C.
- Compositions were tested in two ways:
- 1) A strip 1.27 cm x 10.16 cm (½x4 inches) long was held in a flame to ignite one end (about 1.27 cm x 1.9 cm (½x¾ inch) area and flame spread, held horizontally and vertically (with the burning portion down) would be evaluated.
- 2) An OSB panel was coated with a sheet and used as a shutter to block a 3 kW burner flame confined to a 5.08 cm x5.08cm (2x2 inch) square area by insulator brick.
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- Results for samples tested as paper exposed to a flame:
- a) Control no flake; ignited and burned rapidly when held in any orientation.
- b) 43.04 grams/square metre (Four grams/square foot) burned very slowly horizontally often would almost extinguish; burned when held vertically.
- c) 64.56 grams/square metre (Six grams/square foot) would extinguish at less than one-third burned when held horizontally and about half of the area burned when held vertically.
- d) 86.08 grams/square metre (Eight grams/square foot) would extinguish rapidly when held in any orientation.
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- Results for samples tested bonded on OSB (oriented strand board) in the 3 kW burner flame:
Sample Time to Ignition Control 0:55 Bonded 43.04 gm/m2 (4 gm/ft2) 3:30 Bonded 64.56 gm/m2 (6 gm/ft2) 9:10 - Typical fire-control panels are considered good in this test for five minutes so the 86.08 grams/square metre (8 grams/square foot) sample would obviously be "good" and was not tested.
- The invention is amenable to standard Fourdrinier paper processing; prepared paper may be bonded to board products in the hot-pressure-cure step.
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- A sheet (10) of pressed cellulosic fibers (20) which contains a dispersion of pressed particles (30) of intercalated graphite, said sheet (10) having a pair of opposed outer surfaces at least a portion (300) of which is formed of pressed particles of intercalated graphite, with a thermosetting resin (400) dispersed in the sheet (10) for bonding together cellulosic fibers (20) and intercalated graphite particles (30), said resin (400) being present in an amount such that a surface of the sheet (10) can be bonded by said resin (400) to a contacting flammable surface (510).
- A sheet according to claim 1, in which most of said particles (30) of intercalated graphite are sized in the range of 30 to 80 mesh (U.S. Series).
- A sheet as claimed in claim 1 in which said intercalated graphite is present in said sheet (10) in an amount of from about 43.04 to 64.56 grams per square metre (4 to 8 grams per square foot) of sheet (10) having a thickness of 0.015cm (0.006 inch) to 0.15 cm (0.06 inch).
- A sheet according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein from 5 to 25% of the outer surfaces are in the form of exposed, flattened, intercalated graphite particles.
- An article of manufacture comprising a flammable surface (510) adhesively bonded to a sheet (10) of pressed cellulosic fiber (20) which contains a dispersion of pressed particles (30) of intercalated graphite, said sheet (10) having a pair of opposed surfaces at least a portion (300) of which is formed of pressed particles (30) of intercalated graphite, with a thermosetting resin (400) dispersed in the sheet (10) for bonding together cellulosic fibers (20) and intercalated graphite particles (30), said resin (400) being present in an amount such that a surface of the sheet (10) is bonded by said resin (400) to the contacting flammable surface (510), one of said surfaces being in contact with said flammable surface (510) and the other of said surfaces constituting an outer surface of said article.
- An article as claimed in claim 5 in which said flammable surface (510) is wood.
- An article as claimed in claim 6 in which said flammable surface (510) is oriented strand board.
- An article as claimed in claim 5 in which said flammable surface (510) is wall board.
- An article as claimed in any one of claims 5 to 8, wherein from 5 to 25% of the outer surfaces of the sheet are in the form of exposed, flattened intercalated graphite particles.
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