Anti-blistering agent for tufted surface coverings
AssigneePolytex Sportbelage Produktions-GmbH
InventorsStephan SICK, Dirk SANDER, Thomas Leszinskl, 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.
Claims20
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;
- and
- heating at least the underside to cure the colloidal latex coating into a solid latex coating.
A tufted surface covering, the tufted surface comprising:
- a backing;
- tuft fibers, wherein the tuft fibers are tufted into the backing;
- a underside;
- a pile surface formed by the tuft fibers;
- and
- a solid latex coating on the underside for securing the tuft fibers, wherein the any one of the following:
- the average density within the solid latex coating of a product of an anti-blistering agent increases as the distance from the backing increases, and
- the average pH of the solid latex coating decreases as the distance from the backing increases.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.