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Sonoco Products Company

Gbc Holding Co.

Gerald A Gordon

John K Shepard

Peter Roman Apostoluk

John J Mikula

William L Swihart

William L Swihart, Deceased

A non-metallic industrial container having a fire resistant outer layer made from a polymer or other thermoplastic resin filled with an intumescent powder and forming part of the structure of the container is provided. The container may be a plastic drum, fibre drum, composite intermediate bulk container or other suitable industrial container. The intumescent layer protects the container from fire by expanding and charring when exposed to intense heat.

Container with fire protective intumescent layer

A fire resistant composite intermediate bulk container for holding flammable liquids is provided. The composite IBC has an inner polyethylene container surrounded on at least its vertical sides by a protective metal cage. The protective metal cage is coated with an intumescent paint or other intumescent coating. When the intumescent coating is exposed to high temperatures, such as could occur during a fire, the coating swells and chars, producing an ash that insulates the metal cage, preventing it from heating up to the point where it can melt through the polyethylene container.

Fire resistant composite intermediate bulk container

A fire protective cover for protecting from warehouse fires non-metallic liquid holding containers supported by a steel cage is provided. The cover has a heat insulating layer and a heat reflective layer adjacent the heat insulating layer on the side opposite the steel support cage. The cover drapes over the top and sides of the steel cage, creating a space between the cover and the container. The cover mitigates the possibility that the container will melt during a warehouse fire by reducing the heat transfer from the fire to the steel cage and by creating an oxygen depleted zone between the cover and the container.

Fire protective cover for liquid holding containers

A corrosion resistent protective plastic overlay is intimately engaged with the chime of a fibre drum and extends from an inner edge portion thermally bonded to the drum lining over the head and into the exterior chime groove. The overlay is fusion bonded to the chime throughout the full extent of the surface-to-surface engagement therebetween.

Plastic chime overlay for fibre drum

A corrosion resistent protective plastic overlay is intimately engaged with the chime of a fibre drum and extends from an inner edge portion thermally bonded to the drum lining over the bead and into the exterior chime groove. The overlay is fusion bonded to the chime throughout the full extent of the surface-to-surface engagement therebetween.

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Wheeling, IL, United States of America

Gerald A Gordon