Designed specifically for stretched overhead applications, this fabric is:
- Width: 96″ relaxed
- Roll Size: 50 yards
- Weight: 10 oz. (.625 lbs) per linear yard (approx. 4.75 oz per square yard)
- 94% Polyester, 5% Lycra, 1% Acetate
Overhead trade show ceiling fabric for stretched ceilings over exhibitions, trade show booths, museum displays and retail installations. For use in suspended ceiling displays can bring drawing power to the trade show and retail floor. Built to provide modular, fully customizable design solutions, installations can take any circular or dimensional shape, with light weight aluminum tubing, and pillowcase, double-sided and zipped fabric options.
IFR Meltout diffuses light and in the event of a fire, meltable seams every 12″ along the length of the fabric open allowing smoke to escape and water from sprinklers to come through.
Melt out fabric allows you to construct ceilings which diffuse light and help shape the space of your booth.
Melt Out is a woven, synthetic textile with a single, fusible thread that runs the length of the fabric, placed in parallels once every 12 inches across the width. This fusible thread will melt when the fabric is exposed to a temperature of 160° Fahrenheit or higher.
Typically, this stretch fabric is suspended horizontally across a ceiling area to hide the ceiling mechanicals, which means the sprinkler heads end up above the stretched fabric “false ceiling”. The perimeter edges of the fabric are secured in some manner and intermittent suspension points may be added as needed to keep the soft fabric from drooping too much. Should the temperature below the room reach this critical temperature, the fusible thread melts allowing the stretched knit to contract into small, bunched lines of material. This opens more that 75% of the ceiling area allowing the heat and smoke from below to pass upward to reach the sprinkler heads. Should the sprinkler heads open, water from the sprinklers will be able to fall to the floor, mostly unimpeded.