Weather resistant anti-slip panels
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsWayne Morgan John, Neil Kettlewell, Catherine Janet Ripley
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Abstract
A shapeable, weather-resistant anti-slip panel has a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on a rigid substrate and a pattern of cuttable lines; this enables the panel to be shaped by cutting the substrate along selected lines and overcomes the problem with known weather resistant anti-slip panels that the anti-slip coating particles, being very hard, make the anti-slip coating very difficult to cut or drill, as the coating readily and speedily blunts cutting tools.
Claims14
A shapeable, weather resistant anti-slip panel, comprising a cut resistant anti-slip coating on a working surface of an inflexible substrate and a pattern of uncoated, cuffing lines on the substrate;
- whereby, in use, the substrate can be cut along selected uncoated cutting lines to obtain a desired panel shape;
- wherein the substrate is an unsaturated polyester based on an orthophthalic resin filled with e-glass fibre and has a Shore D hardness of between 80 and 100.
A shapeable, weather resistant anti-slip panel, comprising a cut resistant anti-slip coating on a working surface of an inflexible substrate and a pattern of uncoated, cutting lines on the substrate;
- whereby, in use, the substrate can be cut along selected uncoated cutting lines to obtain a desired panel shape;
- wherein the substrate is an unsaturated polyester based on an orthophthalic resin filled with e-glass fibre and has a maximum deflection of 25° when 1 kg is suspended from a fixed panel test piece 100 mm long×20 mm wide×3–3.5 mm thick.
An anti-slip panel, comprising:
- a substrate having a working surface and being made of a first material having a first hardness;
- and
- a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on the working surface of said substrate, said coating being made of a second material having a second hardness greater than the first hardness, said coating defining a pattern of uncoated, cutting lines on the working surface of said substrate;
- wherein
- said working surface of said substrate is devoid of said second material along said cutting lines;
- at least one of said cutting lines extending continuously from one edge to another edge of the substrate, thereby allowing said substrate to be cut along said at least one cutting line without cutting the cut-resistant anti-slip coating;
- the first material is a unsaturated polyester based on an orthophthalic resin filled with e-glass fiber.
An anti-slip panel, comprising:
- a substrate having a working surface and being made of a first material having a first hardness;
- and
- a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on the working surface of said substrate, said coating being made of a second material having a second hardness greater than the first hardness, said coating defining a pattern of uncoated, cutting lines on the working surface of said substrate;
- wherein
- said working surface of said substrate is devoid of said second material along said cutting lines;
- at least one of said cutting lines extending continuously from one edge to another edge of the substrate, thereby allowing said substrate to be cut along said at least one cutting line without cutting the cut-resistant anti-slip coating;
- said panel further comprises a base resin disposed between the working surface of said substrate and said coating, said base resin bonding the second material of said coating to the working surface of said substrate;
- and
- the base resin is a unsaturated polyester based on an orthophthalic resin.
An anti-slip panel, comprising:
- a substrate having a working surface and being made of a first material having a first hardness;
- and
- a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on the working surface of said substrate, said coating being made of a second material having a second hardness greater than the first hardness, said coating defining a pattern of uncoated, cutting lines on the working surface of said substrate;
- wherein
- said working surface of said substrate is devoid of said second material along said cutting lines;
- at least one of said cutting lines extending continuously from one edge to another edge of the substrate, thereby allowing said substrate to be cut along said at least one cutting line without cutting the cut-resistant anti-slip coating;
- and
- said coating is made of a plurality of particles of said second material, said particles being embedded in the first material of said substrate.
An anti-slip panel, comprising:
- a substrate having a working surface and being made of a first material having a first hardness;
- and
- a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on the working surface of said substrate, said coating being made of a second material having a second hardness greater than the first hardness, said coating defining a pattern of uncoated, cutting lines on the working surface of said substrate;
- wherein
- said working surface of said substrate is devoid of said second material along said cutting lines;
- at least one of said cutting lines extending continuously from one edge to another edge of the substrate, thereby allowing said substrate to be cut along said at least one cutting line without cutting the cut-resistant anti-slip coating;
- said second material has a mohs hardness of between 9 and 10.
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