Bathing vessel having wall reinforcement panel
AssigneeDelta Faucet Company
InventorsMichael Glenn Geels, Jeffrey McKinley Boyd, Scott Kapelanski
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Abstract
A bathing vessel includes a base and at least one wall extending vertically from the base. The wall includes a multi-layer structure that includes a layer of acrylic material on a first layer of polyurethane material, a layer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) material between the layer of acrylic material and the first layer of polyurethane material, and a second layer of polyurethane material between the layer of ABS material and the first layer of polyurethane material. A wood-containing composite panel is chemically bonded to at least one of the first or second layers of polyurethane material.
Claims19
A bathing vessel comprising:
- a base and at least one wall extending vertically from the base, the wall comprising a multi-layer structure that includes a layer of acrylic material on a first layer of polyurethane material, a layer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) material between the layer of acrylic material and the first layer of polyurethane material, and a second layer of polyurethane material between the layer of ABS material and the first layer of polyurethane material;
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- a wood-containing composite panel chemically bonded to at least one of the first layer of polyurethane material or the second layer of polyurethane material.
A bathing vessel comprising:
- a wall comprising a multi-layer structure of a layer of acrylic material arranged on a first layer of polyurethane material, a layer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) material between the layer of acrylic material and the first layer of polyurethane material, and a second layer of polyurethane material between the layer of ABS material and the first layer of polyurethane material;
- a wood-containing composite panel chemically bonded to at least one of the first layer of polyurethane material and the second layer of polyurethane material;
- at least one opening extending through the wall and the wood-containing composite panel;
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- a fixture attached to the wall via the at least one opening.
A method of forming a bathing vessel, said method comprising:
- chemically bonding a wood-containing composite panel to a polyurethane material which is a layer of a multi-layer structure of a wall that extends vertically from a base, wherein the multi-layer structure includes a layer of acrylic material on a first layer of polyurethane material, a layer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) material between the layer of acrylic material and the first layer of polyurethane material, and a second layer of polyurethane material between the layer of ABS material and the first layer of polyurethane material.
The method as recited in claim 17, including contacting the wood-containing composite panel with the polyurethane material prior to full curing of the polyurethane material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.