Armstrong Cork Company

Awi Licensing Company

Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

George E Bagley

Gary A Sigel

John R Eshbach, Jr

F Joseph Appleyard

Werner Rueggeberg

Francis J Appleyard

Willard E McCreary

Robert H Byers

A surface covering has a base to which is laminated a rigid vinyl film. The film is precoated with an electron beam cured wearlayer. The preferred wearlayer composition is a polymerizable organic urethane-polyester wearlayer coating. The coated printed film is prepared by application of a polyester urethane acrylate composition to a printed sheet of rigid vinyl film and the coating is exposed to a low accelerating energy Electro-curtain to form an abrasion resistant topcoat with no apparent degradation of printed rigid vinyl film.

Surface covering having a precoated, E-beam cured wearlayer coated film and process of making the same

This invention pertains to a method and apparatus for producing a cured resinous coating which exhibits a reduced gloss level. In a preferred embodiment, the cured resinous coating which exhibits a reduced gloss level is a wear resistant coating and is superimposed on a resilient floor covering material.

Method for reducing surface gloss

A method of causing a vinyl resin blanket to adhere to a silicone belt during removal of a printing transfer sheet by applying a corona discharge to the belt.

Method of maintaining key between silicone belt and vinyl resin blanket

In a method for manufacturing an embossed thermoplastic surface covering wherein a 100% reactive photopolymerizable coating is applied to the embossed thermoplastic substrate, the improvement comprising prewetting the valleys of the embossed substrate with a liquid consisting essentially of an acrylate monomer or a mixture of acrylate monomers and sufficient photoinitiator to initiate polymerization when the coated substrate is subjected to ultraviolet radiation.

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Lancaster, PA, United States of America

George E Bagley