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US 8,277,596 B2Granted
Method of making a ceiling panel with enhanced acoustics and texture
AssigneeCertainTeed Ceiling Corp.
InventorsMitul D. Zaveri, James Matthew Benti
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Abstract
A ceiling tile and a method of manufacture, wherein the ceiling tile has contrasting colors of texturized woven yarn and a coating, respectively, wherein individual colors of the yarn and coating are at different depths of surface texture, wherein color contrasts accentuate the surface texture depths to be viewed, and provide a desirable, unpredictable randomness of pattern of the color contrasts.
Claims10
A method of making a ceiling tile, comprising:
- covering a core of sound absorbing fibers with yarn, the yarn providing a surface topography;
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- applying a coating of contrasting color, compared to a yarn color, on randomly distributed relatively taller portions of the surface topography, while some of the relatively taller portions have some of their side surfaces uncovered by the coating to expose the yarn color, and applying the coating on randomly distributed relatively large fluffy surface areas of the yarn at relatively lower depths of the surface topography, while randomly distributed relatively small fluffy surface areas of the yarn are uncoated by the coating to expose the yarn color, and relatively small smoother areas of the yarn at relatively lower depths of the surface topography are randomly distributed and are uncoated by the coating to expose the yarn color, which provides a random distribution of the yarn color at different depths and a random distribution of the contrasting color at different depths.
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