Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

David Robert Reed

Arthur Burton

Thomas Whitehead Stafford

A decorative sheet material having a decorative surface and a working surface, the working surface being provided with a coating of a water-activatable adhesive, in which the improvement is disposing a coating of a dry powdered deliquescent material on the adhesive coating.

Decorative sheet material

A sheet material having a decorative surface and a working surface, for application to a support surface is disclosed, the working surface of which is provided with a continuous coating of tacky, pressure-sensitive, adhesive, which adhesive is provided with a coating of a discontinuous layer of resilient, non-adhesive particles. The coating of particles have the ability to be deformed under a load and thus, upon application to a support surface, deform, under pressure, to such an extent as to bring the adhesive and the surface into fuller contact.

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David Robert Reed