How does intumescent seals do in safes in fire?
In life, property safety is crucial. The safe is the most practical and commonly used solution They protect your valuables whether in everyday life or during natural disasters. But during fires and floods, flames heat smoke and water can get through the gaps between safe door and frame in your safe and damage your valuables. To address these situations, we offer you a variety of sealing solutions.
Ressaseal® provides RYZW series intumescent fire seals for gun safes and fire safes industry. It works by sealing the edges and gaps of the safe, rapidly expand to seal the gaps when exposed to heat, which will help the safe protect against fire and heat smoke damage in the event of a fire incident.
What is the structure of RYZW series fireproof intumescent seals?
These fireproof strips are adhesive-backed sealing strips with a hard PVC shell on the outside. Providing functions of cold smoke and fire protection.
The surface is smooth, with consistent texture, no bends or wrinkles, presenting a uniform matte black color. It is relatively strong and robust, effectively preventing scratches. The fireproof expansion material inside the expansion sealing strip fills the entire PVC hard shell from four directions to form one body.
How about the stick performance of RYZW series fireproof intumescent seals?
The double-sided tape of this product adopts a unique grid-type adhesive design to meet the stickiness needs of different surfaces. After installation, just press the surface of the fireproof strip lightly. Make the double-sided tape adhere more closely to the surface of the object to prevent the formation of bubbles. In the actual display, the overall style of the RYZW series fireproof expansion sealing products is simple and luxurious.
Fireproof Test of RYZW series fireproof intumescent seals
- High-Temperature Expansion Test. The product begins to undergo an expansion reaction at 100°C, expanding uniformly and rapidly after 120°C, and stabilizing from 140°C.
- Flame Expansion Test. The flame burns the outer shell to support combustion, driving the product to expand evenly and rapidly from the center to all sides. As with the high temperature test, the product in the test expanded evenly.
In both tests it was observed that when exposed to fire and high temperatures. RYZW series fireproof intumescent seal can expand 3-5times than original volumn and fill gaps quickly and evenly and its frame, effectively preventing smoke, heat and fire from spreading into the safe. RYZW series fireproof intumescent seal seamlessly combines safety practicality and aesthetics, it’s the best fire sealing solution.
The RYZW series fireproof intumescent seal has passed the UL72 test and demonstrates excellent effectiveness in preventing heat penetration. The test results show that when the external temperature reaches 1200°F for 40min.，the internal temperature of the safe which is installed with RYZW series fireproof intumescent seal will not exceed 250°F.
Conclusion
Effectively prevent important items in the safe from carbonizing at high temperatures. Besides of the RYZW series fireproof intumescent seals, Ressaseal provides multi choice of shapes and dimensions fire seals and waterproof seals for safe industry. Be free to get contact and get more detailed information.
