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AssigneeDur-A-Flex, Inc.
InventorsMing Zhao, Kyle Sanford Smith, Murty Venkata Bhamidipati, Michael Joseph Schatz, David Royston Hughes
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Removable flooring, which can be peeled from a flooring substrate is prepared by applying to an adhesive layer attached to the surface of a flooring substrate a particulate material followed by application of a cross-linkable or curable polymer composition, or by applying to the adhesive layer a slurry comprising the particulate material and the cross-linkable or curable polymer composition. The cross-linkable or curable polymer composition surrounds the particulate material and adheres to the adhesive layer to provide, upon cure, a coherent, flooring layer comprising the adhesive, particular material and cured polymer which can be peeled from the underlying flooring substrate as a single substrate.
A removable flooring comprising 1) an adhesion layer adhered to an underlying flooring substrate, 2) a support layer prepared from a composition comprising particulate material and a curable polymer composition applied to the adhesion layer, and, optionally 3) one or more upper polymer layers, wherein upon cure the curable polymer of the support layer is adhered more strongly to the adhesive layer than the adhesive layer is adhered to the underlying flooring substrate and the particulate material, cured polymer and adhesive layer can be removed from the underlying flooring substrate as a single component.
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