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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:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert A Hallman, Mount Joy, PA (US);
Robert D Hensel, Millersville, PA (US);
Eugene M Kirchner, Maytown, PA (US);
Jeffrey S Ross, Lancaster, PA (US);
Jerome D Wisnosky, Lancaster, PA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ; B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428156 ; 428159 ; 428161 ; 428164 ; 428168 ; 428204 ; 428207 ; 428522 ; 428480 ; 428430 ; 428441 ; 428442 ; 428698 ; 428702 ; 428704 ; 428217 ; 428337 ; 428339 ; 428334 ; 428335 ; 428215 ; 4289088 ;
Abstract
A composite surface covering includes a substrate and an inorganic wear layer. The composite surface covering retains its performance characteristics after mechanical embossing. Preferably, the inorganic wear layer of the surface covering is deposited on the substrate by a reduced pressure environment vapor deposition technique. Preferably, the inorganic wear layer is aluminum oxide. The preferred substrate is a plastic material.