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US 4,397,909 AGranted
Production of sheet material
AssigneeAECI Limited
InventorsVaughan P. Goddard, Richard B. C. Le Maitre
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AssigneeAECI Limited
InventorsVaughan P. Goddard, Richard B. C. Le Maitre
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A method of producing sheet material comprises heating a web 10 of closely woven fabric to a temperature of at least 50.degree. C., and preferably to about 150.degree. C., and then impregnating the hot fabric with polyvinylchloride (PVC) paste containing a bonding agent, thereby to provide a material in which the fabric is coated with PVC on each side thereof. Impregnation takes place in a bath 14 with pinch rollers 16 through which the web passes. The pinch rollers 16 squeeze surplus PVC from the web and enhance impregnation. Thereafter the coating can be built up to the desired thickness by dip-coating (in a bath 18) or by a lamination process, whereafter the coated web is cooled in cooling rollers 34 and wound up by a wind-up device 36.
A method of producing sheet material, which method comprises first heating a web of woven fabric, and then impregnating the hot fabric with polyvinylchloride paste thereafter applied to the fabric, thereby to provide a material in which the fabric is coated with polyvinylchloride on each side thereof, the temperature of the hot fabric being at least 50.degree. C. but sufficiently low to permit impregnation of the fabric by the polyvinylchloride paste before any appreciable gelling of the polyvinylchloride paste has taken place, and passing the impregnated fabric through the nip of a pair of opposed pinch rollers whereby pressure is applied to the fabric and surplus polyvinylchloride is squeezed therefrom.
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