Headliner
AssigneeProcess Bonding, Inc.
InventorsMarshall G. Satterfield, David M. Steinke, Michael Blankenship
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Abstract
A headliner for mounting in the passenger compartment of a vehicle is formed from a plurality of layers of materials including foamed polyurethane, fiber glass, scrim and remay. The layers are bonded together under heat and pressure which cures an incorporated adhesive.
Claims4
A cured molded smooth contoured layered panel, said, layers being substantially coextensive, said panel including in sequence a decorative outer layer adhesively joined to a first open celled soft-feeling polyurethane foam layer, the cells of which are unfilled with hard material, a fiber glass layer sandwiched between and adhesively bonded to both the first foam layer and a second open celled hard-feeling polyurethane foam layer the cells of which are filled with cured adhesive, and a second fiber glass layer adhesively bonded to the second foam layer.
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