Susan M Monroe

US Patent:

20100276059, Nov 4, 2010

Filed:

Apr 30, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/799700

Inventors:

Dong Tian - Lancaster PA, US
Jeffrey S. Ross - Lancaster PA, US
Susan Monroe - Wrightsville PA, US
Larry W. Leininger - Akron PA, US

International Classification:

E04F 15/10
C08F 2/48
C08F 299/06
C08F 20/10
C08F 16/12
C08G 59/00
B32B 37/06

US Classification:

156 71, 427508, 427520, 427514, 522 53, 522 90, 522182, 522181, 522170, 1563809

Abstract:

A floor covering includes a wear layer including a resin and a photoinitiator in which the composition of the wear layer is curable by radiation having the strongest wavelength in the UVV range of 400 to 450 nm. The gloss of the wear layer can be controlled by controlling the amount of flatting agent in the composition applied to the surface, the amount of power applied to the surface coated with the composition or the temperature of the surface coated with the composition when the coated surface is subjected to the UVV radiation.