Awi Licensing Company

William B Saporetti

Ralph W Wright, Jr

William J Kauffman

Peter A Christie

W Craig Brossman

Steven F Hynicka

Disclosed is both a method and apparatus for mechanically embossing a surface covering. The apparatus includes an embossing tool comprising a slurry. The slurry includes both a filler and binder. The method includes printing a slurry onto a surface covering and compressing the slurry onto the surface covering to create a mechanically embossed texture onto the surface covering.

Method for mechanically embossing a surface covering using a recyclable solidified slurry embossing tool

A sheet flooring product, including a homogeneous melt processable resin layer formed of a melt processable, non-plastisol layer, and an adjacent felt layer produced by a beater saturated method and having a substantially uniform thickness of between about 5 mils and about 40 mils. The melt processable resin layer is preferably applied by a hot melt calender (&ldquo;HMC&rdquo;) process to achieve enhanced can drop, refrigerator drag and indentation values.

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Lancaster, PA, United States of America

William B Saporetti