Rohm and Haas Company

Stanley Le Sota

John G Brodnyan

Bjorn E Larsson

Donald Francis Holloway

Crushed foam coated leather and leather-like materials characterized by excellent foam adherence, are prepared by flowing foamed compounded polymeric latices into contact with a leather or leather-like substrate and partially drying same, followed by compressive crushing of the dried foam, plating or embossing to achieve optimum adhesion, and further heating and curing to develop maximum physical properties.

Crushed foam coated leather and leather-like materials

Emulsion copolymers containing a) from about 0.25 to about 4% by weight acrolein, b) from about 0.5 to about 10% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and c) up to about 99.25% by weight of an alkyl acrylate, an alkyl methacrylate, or mixtures thereof are disclosed. The copolymers are useful in leather treating compositions, and particularly in base coat compositions.

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Horsham, PA, United States of America

Stanley Le Sota