Paint transfer article and methods of preparation and use thereof
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorsBruce E. Johnson, Max Naglosky, III
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Abstract
A paint transfer article useful in forming a protective or colored coating on a compound structural component. The paint transfer article comprises an optional carrier liner sequentially covered with continuous layers of a colored layer having a colored base layer and an optional clear coating, a reinforcing layer, and an optional heat-activatable adhesive. The reinforcing layer has a sufficiently low glass transition temperature and a sufficiently high tensile modulus to resist damage to itself and the colored layer upon impact or under moderate pressure. Also a method of paint transfer using the article, a method of preparing the composite, a cold-formable painted metal bank, and a method for cold-forming painted parts.
Claims26
A paint transfer article comprising:
- (A) a continuous reinforcing layer, said layer having two major surfaces and having a glass transition temperature below about 20.degree. C. and a tensile modulus of at least about 50 pounds/inch.sup.2 at 200.degree. F.;
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- (B) a colored layer on a first major surface of said reinforcing layer;
- wherein said paint transfer article is substantially nonelastomeric and sufficiently extensible to intimately conform to the contours of the surface of a substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.