FIRE-RESISTANT GLAZING

Abstract

A fire-resistant glazing unit includes a first untempered glass sheet, a second untempered glass sheet and a solid interlayer stack, wherein the interlayer stack includes a first intumescent layer, an essentially inorganic layer and a second intumescent layer.

Claims

1. A fire-resistant glazing unit comprising a first untempered glass sheet, a second untempered glass sheet and a solid interlayer stack, wherein the interlayer stack comprises a first intumescent layer, an essentially inorganic layer and a second intumescent layer, and wherein the interlayer stack has a haze of less than 15%.

2. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interlayer stack has a total light transmission of greater than 85%.

3. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interlayer stack does not comprise a glass sheet.

4. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the essentially inorganic layer is a solid layer based on inorganic polymer, on silicates or on a sol-gel material based on metal oxides.

5. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the essentially inorganic layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 6.0 mm.

6. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second intumescent layers comprise a binder and an intumescent agent.

7. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 6, wherein the binder is an organic binder chosen from homopolymers or copolymers derived from monomers or comonomers chosen from vinyl monomers, diene monomers, isocyanate monomers, epoxide monomers, dicarboxylic acid monomers, polyol monomers, polyamine monomers and mixtures thereof.

8. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 6, wherein the intumescent agent is chosen from thermally degradable nitrogenous compounds, thermally degradable carboxylic acids and mixtures thereof.

9. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and the second intumescent layer have a thickness of 0.01 to 1.0 mm.

10. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and the second intumescent layer comprise fillers.

11. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein a holding layer is arranged between the interlayer stack and each of the first and second glass sheets.

12. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 11, wherein the holding layers are layers based on silicates or on a sol-gel material based on metal oxides.

13. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein a reinforcing layer is arranged between the essentially inorganic layer and each of the first and second intumescent layers.

14. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the reinforcing layers are layers based on silicates or on a sol-gel material based on metal oxides.

15. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interlayer stack comprises a plurality of intumescent layers on each side of the essentially inorganic layer, the pluralities of intumescent layers being separated from one another by secondary essentially inorganic layers.

16. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 5, wherein the essentially inorganic layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm.

17. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 10, wherein the fillers are inorganic or organometallic fillers.

18. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 12, wherein the holding layers are layers of silica and/or titanium oxide.

19. The glazing unit as claimed in claim 14, wherein the reinforcing layers are layers of silica and/or titanium oxide.

Description

EXAMPLES

[0034] A fire-resistant glazing unit I1 according to the invention, as illustrated in FIG. 1, was prepared from two untempered annealed glass sheets of 2.5 mm thickness. An intumescent layer of 500 μm thickness was deposited on each of the glass sheets from an aqueous dispersion comprising a polymeric binder based on vinyl acetate, vinyl ester and ethylene, diethyl ethylphosphonate, ammonium phosphate, urea and citric acid. After drying the intumescent layer, the two glass sheets thus coated are arranged parallel to one another, with the intumescent coatings facing each other, and assembled using a peripheral seal forming a cavity of 1 mm thickness between the two glass sheets. A composition of precursors based on vinyl-terminated polymethylsiloxane, methylsiloxane and a tin catalyst is poured by gravity until the cavity is entirely filled. This composition is crosslinked at 60° C. for 1 h to form the essentially inorganic layer.

[0035] A fire-resistant glazing unit I2 according to the invention was prepared from two untempered annealed glass sheets of 2.5 mm thickness. A holding layer based on alkali metal silicates was deposited on each of the glass sheets over a thickness of 5 μm. An intumescent layer of 100 μm thickness was deposited on each of the holding layers from an aqueous dispersion comprising a polymeric binder based on vinyl acetate, vinyl ester and ethylene, diethyl ethylphosphonate and citric acid. After drying the intumescent layer, a reinforcing layer based on sol-gel silica is deposited on the intumescent layer with a thickness of 5 μm. After drying the reinforcing layer, the two glass sheets thus coated are arranged parallel to one another, with the intumescent coatings facing each other, and assembled using a peripheral seal forming a cavity of 1 mm thickness between the two glass sheets. A composition of precursors based on vinyl-terminated polymethylsiloxane, methylsiloxane and a tin catalyst is poured by gravity until the cavity is entirely filled. This composition is crosslinked at 60° C. for 1 h to form the essentially inorganic layer.