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GLASAL SHEETS SPECIFICATION

(suggested).

Compressed and steam-cured asbestos-cement sheet 1/8" thick with a mineral enamel surface.

CHARACTERISTICS Thicknesses: 1/8"

Sizes: a) sheets 1/8" thick

1/4" (2 sheets bonded back to back for better

impact strength)

99" x 48" (natural edges) 120" X 49" (natural edges)

b) double sheets 1/4" thick or sandwich panels

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98 1/2" x 47 1/4" (sawn edges)

- 120" x 48" (sawn edges)

Weight: 1.4 lbs per sq.ft.

Porosity: 14%

Density: 1.75 to 1.85

Brinell hardness: 4

Tensile strenght: 2,200 psi.

Resistant to scratches, cigarette burns and domestic acids

Frost resistance: unlimited

Constant heat resistance:

Thermal conductivity: A

570°F.

1.45

Linear expansion: 0,000005 per unit lenght/°F.

Weather resistance: Belgian and foreign laboratory reports on request (France,

Great Britain, U.S.A., Holland, etc.)

Incombustible, waterproof and rotproof

GLASAL SANDWICH PANELS

SPECIFICATION

(suggested).

Composite panel made up of a core of insulating material lined with compressed and steam-cured asbestos-cement sheets with mineral enamel surface.

CHARACTERISTICS

(Types of sandwich-panels given as an example).

1. Glasal - cork - Glasal

Total thickness

ㄓ 1”

± 1 1/2"

± 17/8"

U

Approx. Weight-lbs/sq.ft.

0.26

3.36

0.19

3.69

0.16

4.10

2. Glasal flax fibre

-

Glasal

Total thickness

U

Approx. Weight-lbs/sq.ft.

i 1"

± 1 1/2" ± 1 7/8"

3. Glasal

·

polystyrene - Glasal

Total thickness

0.36

4.10

0.28

4.91

0.23

5.94

± 1′′

+1 1/2" ± 1 7/8"

U

Approx. Weight-lbs/sq.ft.

0.20

2.87

0.15

3.17

0.12

3.28

PERFORATED GLASAL SPECIFICATION: Compressed and steam-cured asbestos-cement sheet with a SHEETS

Sol.

Agents:

mineral enamel surface, with 1/4" diameter holes at 3/4" centres. This sheet may be bonded to a woodframe 1 1/4" x 3/8" grooved on the edge to house a tongue cover strip and backed with a layer of polystyrene, or of bakelised fibre glass and a protective lining.

FIXING: The panels are easily and quickly fixed with screws. The frames have a

groove on the side in which a glasal tongue is placed to serve as a joint.

SIZES OF THE PANEL FRAMES: The standard sizes are 11 1/2′′ x 11 1/2". 15 3/8" x 15 3/8", 23 1/4′′ x 23 1/4". Other sizes on request. Perforated glasal panels are also supplied, in the same sizes, without frame and in large sheets of 98 1/2" x 47 1/4" and 120′′ × 47 1/4".

DEACON & CO., LTD. Hapon 891283

PRINTED IN BELGIUM

Hongkong Bank Bldg. Telephone:

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