Floor mat article
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorRaul Maldonado Arellano
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Abstract
A floor mat article for removing and holding dust, mud, dirt, and water and a process for making a floor mat. The matting article can include a lofty nonwoven web of entangled fibers and a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating. The lofty nonwoven web can include organic crimped staple fibers which can be adhesively bonded together by a binder resin to form a three dimensional network of intercommunicated voids constituting at least 75% of the volume. The matting article can have a maximum density of 95 kilograms per cubic meter. The process can include forming a nonwoven web of crimped staple organic fibers; coating the nonwoven web with a binder resin; heat curing the coated nonwoven web; and applying a pressure-sensitive adhesive to a first major surface of the coated nonwoven web.
Claims20
A matting article for removing and holding dust, mud, dirt, and water, the matting article comprising:
- (a) a lofty nonwoven web of entangled fibers comprising organic crimped staple fibers which are adhesively bonded together by a binder resin to form a three dimensional network of intercommunicated voids constituting at least 75% of the volume of the lofty nonwoven web;
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- (b) a coating of pressure-sensitive adhesive on a first major surface of the lofty nonwoven web wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive is configured to maintain the matting article in place on a floor surface;
- wherein the matting article has a maximum density of 95 kilograms per cubic meter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.