Inventors:
Robert O. Russell - Fairview Park OH
Robert W. Limes - Seven Hills OH
Robert C. Best - Chagrin Falls OH
Assignee:
Republic Steel Corporation - Cleveland OH
International Classification:
C04B 3504, B05D 302, B32B 904
Abstract:
A fire protection material, suitable for use as a coating for structural members, produced by mixing a lightweight refractory aggregate including magnesia with ammonium phosphates in aqueous solution, wherein the composition of the phosphates is at least about 20% by weight polyphosphates, balance orthophosphate, and allowing the mixture to set as a fire protection coating or body having a bulk density of not more than about 50 lb. /ft. sup. 3.