J. H. Benecke Gmbh

Klaus Heimrich

Gustav Hildebrandt

Heinrich Kracke

Philipp Schaefer

Horst Buscher

Ewald Krack, Heir

Harald Krack, Deceased

BoHugo

Doris Krack, Heir

Johannes Richter

Bernd Grego

A substrate having an appearance similar to that of nubuk-leather or pile-leather, respectively, or of a textile pile consists of a textile carrier body being at least partially impregnated with a, preferably cross-linked, polymeric synthetic plastics material consisting of a foam which has open cells formed by introducing air and optionally has closed cells formed of hollow microspheres. The textile carrier body consists of a fleece or of a knitting, preferably of a crimped fleece of synthetic fibres, which is needled together with a knitting or with a fleece, strengthened by thermal embossing, in such a manner that the fibres extend through the knitting. The knitting may consist of a roughened stockinet, i.e. a stockinet having opened loops. The carrier body is ground at least at its one impregnated surface and is thus rough and can be provided with a coating.

Pile-like substrate and method of making same

A method for producing the matrix for the embossing cylinder which has a uniform pattern design in the marginal areas adjoining the abutment where the ends of the blanket are joined to form the tube comprising (1) casting liquid silicone rubber on a sheet of leather having the desired grain and vulcanizing the silicone, (2) using the matrix thus formed to emboss, under heat and pressure in a press, a rectangular sheet of thermoplastic resin such as polyvinyl chloride film, (3) forming the embossed sheet into a tube, (4) placing the portion of the tube having abutting edges in a narrow platen press and reembossing the area surrounding the abutment with the silicone rubber matrix to mask the impression of the joint and provide a continuous uninterrupted pattern, and (5) using the positively-embossed thermoplastic sheet as a matrix for casting vulcanizable silicone rubber to form a negatively-embossed matrix for use as a blanket on an embossing roll. The embossing roll is used to produce continuous lengths of embossed thermoplastic film with a continuous, uninterrupted grain pattern.

Method of making an embossing cylinder

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Garbsen, Germany

Klaus Heimrich