Method of making a stain-resistant flooring material
AssigneeAutoglym
InventorsAdrian John Shortland, Karen Alexandra Masters
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Abstract
The present invention provides a flooring material including a base portion, a coating portion being positioned in contact with an upper surface of the base portion and creating an upper surface of the flooring material, wherein the coating portion is substantially free from contaminants from the base portion which decrease the stain resistance of the coating portion and wherein the coating portion includes a first particulate material which at least partially penetrates the base portion and is proud from the upper surface of the flooring material.
Claims16
A method of making a flooring material, the method including the steps of:
- (a) applying a base layer as a paste or liquid on a surface of a support;
- (b) increasing the viscosity of the base layer by heating the paste or liquid on the base layer to restrict subsequent transfer of contaminants from the base layer into a subsequently applied coating layer, without completely curing or gelling the base layer;
- (c) subsequently applying a coating layer on the base layer;
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- (d) performing a second heating step on both the coating layer and the base layer,
- (e) the second heating step causing an interpenetration between the coating layer and the base layer to bond the coating layer and the base layer together.
A method of making a flooring material, the method including the steps of:
- (a) applying a base layer as a paste or liquid on a surface of a support;
- (b) increasing the viscosity of the base layer by heating the paste or liquid on the base layer to restrict subsequent transfer of contaminants from the base layer into a subsequently applied coating layer, without completely curing or gelling the base layer;
- (c) subsequently applying a coating layer on the base layer;
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- (d) performing a second heating step on both the coating layer and the base layer,
- (e) the second heating step causing an interpenetration between the coating layer and the base layer to bond the coating layer and the base layer together;
- wherein the method further includes a step of applying particulate material which is performed before and/or after step (c).
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