Toyo Cloth Co., Ltd.

Kenji Okabe

Yasuhiro Shiga

Yoshifumi Nishibayashi

Ken-ichi Baba

Atsushi Shimizu

A lustrous top surface is imparted to artificial leather having a substrate, a flexible thermoplastic layer and a top coating essentially consisting of a thermoplastic resin by contacting the top coating with a mirror-like surface for a short period of time while applying heat to the intersurface therebetween at a temperature of at least about 10.degree. C. but not more than 40.degree. C. lower than the softening point of the resin in the top coating.

Method for imparting a lustrous top surface to artificial leather

Artificial leather is produced by applying a dope comprising urethane prepolymers containing terminal isocyanate groups, an amine catalyst and a foam stabilizer onto a releasing carrier sheet, exposing the resulting coating layer to a moisture-containing gas under controlled conditions, laminating the coating layer onto a backing material and stripping off the releasing carrier sheet. The resulting artificial leather has a cellular structure of polyurethane microfoam in adhesion with the backing material and an adhesion strength of 100 to 10,000 g/cm of width.

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Sennan, Japan

Kenji Okabe