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US 4,199,635 AGranted
Fabric faced laminate panel and method of manufacture
AssigneeAlbany International Corp.
InventorRoy B. Parker
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Abstract
The disclosure is of decorative panels and the method of their manufacture. The decorative panels are laminates of textile materials, having a decorative fabric surface. The panels of the invention are particularly advantageous in that they are economical to manufacture and exhibit a high degree of structural stability, and resistance to delamination.
Claims2
A decorative laminate panel, which comprises;
- a core of non-woven, synthetic textile fibers;
- a first layer of heat fused synthetic, thermoplastic textile melt fibers;
- a second layer which comprises a film of synthetic polymeric resin;
- said first and second layers sandwiching the core, fibers of said first layer and the core being interengaged with each other and with the second layer, said interengagement being of the character obtained by needling;
- a batt of non-woven textile fibers attached to the second layer by needling;
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- a decorative textile fabric adhered to the outer surface of the first layer;
- said adherence being by anchoring of the fabric ground in the fused fibers of the first layer.
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A method of producing a laminate panel which comprises:
- applying onto a continuously advancing web of melt fibers, an unconsolidated layer of synthetic textile fibers;
- applying a layer of melt fibers on top of said unconsolidated layer;
- needling said melt fiber web, said unconsolidated fiber layer and said layer of melt fibers together to form a composite web;
- applying a batt of non-woven textile fibers to one side of said composite web;
- securing said batt to said composite web by needling;
- applying a decorative fabric to the outer surface of the layer of melt fiber, to form an unlaminated web;
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- laminating the unlaminated web under heat and pressure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.