Abstract: Processes for manufacturing surface elements are disclosed. The surface elements can comprise a decorative upper layer and a supporting core. Processes for manufacturing such surface elements can comprise obtaining a decor at least by digitization of a number of archetypes selected from woods and minerals by making a high resolution digital picture of said archetypes, storing said decor digitally, manufacturing a plurality of supporting cores, each being of rectangular shape and each having a size essentially equaling only one desired end user format and provided with an upper side and a lower side, editing said decor to fit said shape and size of each one of said plurality of supporting cores, and digitally applying different patterns on each of said plurality of supporting cores, wherein said patterns are selected and parted from said decor and said decor is used to control said digitally applying the different patterns.

Abstract: Processes for manufacturing surface elements are provided. The surface elements can include a decorative upper layer and a supporting core. Processes for manufacturing such surface elements can comprise manufacturing a supporting core having a format essentially equaling the desired end user format and provided with an upper side and a lower side, providing a ground coating on the supporting core, and applying a digitally printed décor comprising inks of at least four colors directly on top of the ground coating by means of an ink-jet type printer, said four colors comprising one or more colors different from cyan, magenta, yellow and black; said digitally printed décor being one of wood or mineral, and providing and curing an at least partly translucent wear layer on the upper side of the supporting core.

Abstract: Processes for manufacturing surface elements are provided. The surface elements can comprise a decorative upper layer and a supporting core. Processes for manufacturing such surface elements can comprise manufacturing a supporting core having an upper side, treating said upper side of said supporting core, including at least one of the steps of ground coating with a primer, sanding and providing said upper side with a surface structure, applying a digitally printed décor comprising inks of at least four colors directly on top of the ground coating by an ink-jet type printer, said digitally printed decor being one of wood or mineral, and providing and curing a protecting and at least partly translucent wear layer on the upper side of the supporting core.

Abstract: Camouflage patterns on a substrate such as a fabric comprise in a first aspect a substrate having a camouflage pattern with a set of intermixed colored blotches thereon, the colors of the set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. In another aspect the colors of the set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Light Sage 560 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer surface covering (1) comprising a PVC-free support layer (2), a decorative layer (5), a transparent wear layer (4) and a coating layer (3) between said support layer (2) and said decorative layer (5), said coating layer (3) having a thickness of at least 5 ?m and a surface tension equal or higher to the surface tension of the decorative layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is, even when the design of a weather strip body with a specific gravity of about 0.5 to 0.85 is improved using a nonwoven fabric, to provide a weather strip with excellent trackability and excellent adhesiveness between the weather strip body and the nonwoven fabric. The weather strip of the present invention comprises a weather strip body having a specific gravity of 0.5 to 0.85 and made of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber, an adhesive resin sheet comprising random polypropylene and a polypropylene-based thermoplastic elastomer, and a nonwoven fabric, said nonwoven fabric being attached to the weather strip body via the adhesive resin sheet.

Abstract: A high-tack pressure sensitive adhesive is provided. A high-tack adhesive is mixed with a low-tack adhesive to form an adhesive mixture. The adhesive mixture applied to a portion of a substrate as a high-tack pressure sensitive adhesive patch. In an embodiment, the adhesive mixture includes a thickening agent.

Abstract: The inventors of the present application developed novel optically active materials, methods, and articles. One embodiment of the present application is an optically active article, comprising: an infrared-reflecting material positioned adjacent to an optically active substrate such that the infrared-reflecting material forms a pattern that can be read by an infrared sensor when the optically active substrate is illuminated by an infrared light source. Another embodiment of the present application relates to a method of manufacturing an optically active article, comprising: obtaining an optically active sheeting; and positioning an infrared-reflecting material on the optically active sheeting to form a pattern. The optically active article may be, for example, a license plate.

Abstract: An article of manufacture includes decorative ornamentation relating to constellations. More specifically, the article of manufacture bears at least a first and a second pattern of first and second elements, respectively. In the first pattern, the first elements are arranged in relative positions that correspond to relative positions of stars in a first constellation. In the second pattern, the second elements are arranged in relative positions that correspond to relative positions of stars in a second constellation. The first and second patterns are superimposed on each other, forming a decorative ornamentation that represents a composite of the first and second constellations. The patterns can be configured so that a relative size of each element corresponds to a relative brightness of the constellation star corresponding to that element.

Abstract: Provided is a display window for a display apparatus, the display window including a base plate; a plurality of first coating patterns on an entire first surface of the base plate spaced from one another; and a plurality of second coating patterns on an entire second surface of the base plate spaced from one another and corresponding to the first coating patterns. A width of each of the first coating patterns is less than a width of a corresponding second coating pattern.

Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds that are non-adhesive and used to coat rubber surfaces for improved traction. An embodiment of the invention provides non-adhesive coating compositions that improve the traction of rubber surfaces. Another embodiment of the invention provides rubber surfaces with improved traction. Still another embodiment of the invention provides methods of improving the traction of rubber surfaces. The non-adhesive coating compositions comprise a terpene and/or an essential oil, a staying agent, and a cleaning carrier.