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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter J Rohrbacker, Bordentown, NJ (US);
Martin J Dickson, Newfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
American Biltrite, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B31F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156209 ; 156231 ; 156235 ; 156246 ; 156280 ; 156313 ; 156277 ; 427197 ;
Abstract
A printed surface covering which can be continuously manufactured by the following steps: utilizing a process printing method, a design is printed onto a polymer web having an opaque, uniform background color; this web is laminated onto a vinyl base web to form a composite material; this composite material is laminated to a wear resistant layer which is embossed in register with the printed design; and the embossed composite material is cut into discrete sections in register with the printed design.