Anti-blistering agent for tufted surface coverings
AssigneesPolytex Sportbelage Produktions-GmbH, EOC Belgium
InventorsStephan Sick, Dirk Sander, Thomas Leszinski, Bernd Jansen, Quintin Keil
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a tufted surface covering includes incorporating tuft fiber into a backing to form the tufted surface covering, wherein the tufted surface covering includes an underside and a pile surface; coating the underside with a colloidal latex coating, wherein the colloidal latex coating has an exposed surface; wetting the exposed surface with an anti-blistering agent; and heating at least the underside to cure the colloidal latex coating into a solid latex coating.
Claims16
A method of manufacturing a tufted surface covering, the method comprises:
- incorporating tuft fibers into a backing to form the tufted surface covering, wherein the tufted surface covering comprises an underside and a pile surface;
- coating the underside with a colloidal latex coating, wherein the colloidal latex coating has an exposed surface;
- wetting the exposed surface with an anti-blistering agent;
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- heating at least the underside to cure the colloidal latex coating into a solid latex coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.