Patents Assigned to AWI Licensing Company
  • Surface covering having a precoated, E-beam cured wearlayer coated film and process of making the same
    Patent number: 6375786
    Abstract: A surface covering has a base to which is laminated a rigid vinyl film. The film is precoated with an electron beam cured wearlayer. The preferred wearlayer composition is a polymerizable organic urethane-polyester wearlayer coating. The coated printed film is prepared by application of a polyester urethane acrylate composition to a printed sheet of rigid vinyl film and the coating is exposed to a low accelerating energy Electro-curtain to form an abrasion resistant topcoat with no apparent degradation of printed rigid vinyl film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: AWI Licensing Company
    Inventors: Gary A. Sigel, John R. Eshbach, Jr., George E. Bagley, F. Joseph Appleyard