US 11,668,088 B2
Fire resistant coating system and method
Paul Craig Scott, Houston, TX (US); and Aaron Feinberg, Belmont, NC (US)
Assigned to Intumescents Associates Group (IAG), LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Paul Craig Scott, Houston, TX (US); and Aaron Feinberg, Belmont, NC (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,394.
Application 17/894,394 is a division of application No. 16/378,167, filed on Apr. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,486,136.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/658,256, filed on Apr. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412078 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. E04B 1/94 (2006.01); D03D 1/00 (2006.01); D03D 19/00 (2006.01); D03D 15/513 (2021.01)
CPC E04B 1/944 (2013.01) [D03D 1/0035 (2013.01); D03D 15/513 (2021.01); D03D 19/00 (2013.01); E04B 1/941 (2013.01); D10B 2101/12 (2013.01); D10B 2331/02 (2013.01); D10B 2331/04 (2013.01); D10B 2331/061 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of preparing a woven mesh-draped substrate comprising:
draping at least a portion of said woven mesh about said substrate,
wherein:
before, concurrently with or after said woven mesh being draped about said substrate, an adhesive material is disposed on at least a portion of the exterior surface of said substrate and/or said woven mesh; and
said woven mesh comprises:
a plurality of first yarns;
a plurality of second yarns; and
a plurality of third yarns;
wherein:
said yarns are woven in a leno weave arrangement;
each said third yarn is intertwined with one said second yarn;
each said intertwined pair of second and third yarns is positioned in said woven mesh such that said third yarn and said second yarn thereof are disposed alternatingly on either side of said first yarn at intersections of said yarns; and
said woven mesh, having previously been exposed to elevated temperatures, is configured such that at least a portion of the surface of said third yarns, having been at least partially melted at said elevated temperatures, are adhered to the surface of each said first yarn and said second yarn at contact points there between:
wherein:
at least some of said first and second yarns retain at least about 80% of their tensile strength at about 849 degrees C.