Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080227951 | Process for preparing high molecular weight polyesters - A process for producing higher molecular weight polyester includes heating a polyester to form a melt, and applying and maintaining a vacuum of between about 5 mm and about 85 mm of mercury to the melt while passing bubbles of gas through the melt until molecular weight has increased. The process may involve esterification of a diacid component and a diol component at elevated temperature. Typically, an excess of diol was employed. After the acid functional groups have essentially reacted, a vacuum of about 5 mm of mercury or less was applied and excess diol stripped off during transesterification, thereby increasing molecular weight. | 09-18-2008 |
20090238980 | Variable texture floor covering - A floor covering has an exposed surface with substantially the same gloss level and at least two portions having different tactile surface characteristics. The difference in the tactile surface characteristics between the two portions is at least an average RPc of 4. The floor covering includes a substrate and a high performance coating overlying the substrate. The high performance coating comprises texture particles, which may be organic polymer particles. The floor covering is made by forming a high performance coating including the texture particles on a substrate, at least partially curing the high performance coating, and then while controlling the temperature of the high performance coating below the melting point temperature or softening point temperature of the texture particles and above the temperature at which the texture particles deform under the applied mechanical embossing pressure, subjecting the first and second portions to different mechanical embossing conditions. | 09-24-2009 |
20090274919 | Biobased Resilient Floor Tile - A biobased resilient tile includes at least one base layer, at least one film layer, and a topcoat. The base layer includes a polymeric binder and a filler. The base layer has at least about 20-95% weight of the filler and at least about 5% weight of recycled material. The film layer is supported by the base layer. The film layer is a rigid film selected from the group consisting of polyethyleneterephthalate, glycolated polyethyleneterephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polypropylene terephthalte, or a thermoplastic ionomer resin. The film layer includes recycled material. The topcoat is provided on the film layer. The topcoat is a radiation curable biobased coating comprising a biobased component selected from the group consisting of a biobased resin, a biobased polyol acrylate, or a biobased polyol. | 11-05-2009 |
20090275674 | UV/EB Curable Biobased Coating for Flooring Application - A radiation curable biobased coating, such as a UV/EB curable biobased coating, for flooring applications includes a biobased component comprising renewable and/or biobased materials. The biobased component is selected from the group consisting of a biobased resin, a biobased polyol acrylate, or a biobased polyol. The biobased component is blended with a coating formula. The coating formula includes at least one initiator. The radiation curable biobased coating contains at least about 5% weight of renewable materials or biobased content. | 11-05-2009 |
20100276059 | UVV curable coating compositions and method for coating flooring and other substrates with same - 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. | 11-04-2010 |
20120015110 | Ultraviolet curable coating - Ultraviolet curable compositions are disclosed that can be applied to achieve a uniform gloss after curing even under conditions of varying ultraviolet intensity during curing, that do not require continuous agitation to keep flattening agents and other additives suspended prior to application of the composition, and/or which do not exhibit a significant increase in viscosity over time in a roll coater application. | 01-19-2012 |
20130085218 | ENERGY CURED COATING COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF APPLYING SAME TO SUBSTRATE - Disclosed is an energy curable coating composition for roll coating, a product, and continuous process of applying the energy curable coating composition to a substrate. The energy curable coating composition has a substantially constant viscosity and includes an energy curable resin having plurality of texturing particles suspended therein. The substantially constant viscosity of the energy curable coating composition remains at least less than about 1500 centipoise at approximately 15° C. to approximately 40° C., during recirculation, in a coating pan, and prior to application using a roll coating apparatus. The plurality of texturing particles provide a predetermined texture to a cured energy coating composition. The continuous process of applying the energy curable coating to a substrate allows the process to continuously operate until the energy curable coating composition is depleted from the container. | 04-04-2013 |
20130230729 | UV/EB CURABLE BIOBASED COATING FOR FLOORING APPLICATION - A coating composition and a floor product are disclosed. The coating composition has a biobased component that includes urethane acrylate, vinyl ether, or polyester acrylate. The coating composition includes at least about 5% by weight of renewable and/or biobased component. The coating composition is radiation curable, formed by acrylating a biobased polyol acrylate, and reacting the biobased polyol acrylate with polyisocyanate to form a biobased resin. The floor product includes a cellulosic substrate and a biobased coating applied to the cellulosic substrate. | 09-05-2013 |
20130237665 | PVC/POLYESTER BINDER FOR PRODUCTS - A product is provided having a biobased component where the biobased component includes recycle polyester resin and the recycle polyester resin includes polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene, or polypropylene terephthalate. The biobased component includes a polyester resin where the polyester resin is the co-reaction product of an aliphatic polyester having renewable components and a recycle polyester resin. Included is a composition having a filler and a polymeric binder. The filler includes inorganic biobased filler or recycle thermoset resin based filler. | 09-12-2013 |
20130239852 | Biobased Plasticizer and Surface Covering Employing Same - A biobased plasticizer and a surface covering are disclosed. The biobased plasticizer includes an ester formed as a reaction product of a furan derivative selected from the group consisting of furoic acid, furfural and furfuryl alcohol reacted with a carboxylic acid or an alcohol, or includes an ester formed as a reaction product of a biobased aromatic compound and a biobased aliphatic compound. The surface covering is plasticized with a composition comprising an ester formed as a reaction product of a functionalized aromatic heterocyclic compound reacted with a carboxylic acid or an alcohol. | 09-19-2013 |
20130273321 | VARIABLE TEXTURE FLOOR COVERING - A floor covering has an exposed surface with substantially the same gloss level and at least two portions having different tactile surface characteristics. The difference in the tactile surface characteristics between the two portions is at least an average RPc of 4. The floor covering includes a substrate and a high performance coating overlying the substrate. The high performance coating comprises texture particles, which may be organic polymer particles. The floor covering is made by forming a high performance coating including the texture particles on a substrate, at least partially curing the high performance coating, and then while controlling the temperature of the high performance coating below the melting point temperature or softening point temperature of the texture particles and above the temperature at which the texture particles deform under the applied mechanical embossing pressure, subjecting the first and second portions to different mechanical embossing conditions. | 10-17-2013 |
20140039111 | FLOORING PRODUCT HAVING REGIONS OF DIFFERENT RECYCLE OR RENEWABLE CONTENT - A flooring product comprises a heterogeneous design layer having multiple regions wherein two regions comprise compositions having different recycle content or renewable content. The thickness of the design layer may be greater than the dimensions of the regions or the regions may extending from the top surface of the layer to the bottom surface of the design layer. The heterogeneous layer may be composed of consolidated particles/chips which may contain a polyester binder system with a renewable component. Additionally, a method for making a heterogeneous layer having a target wt % recycle content or renewable content is also disclosed. | 02-06-2014 |
20140102335 | BIOBASED PLASTICIZER AND SURFACE COVERING EMPLOYING SAME - Described herein are biobased plasticizer compositions comprising a compound having the structure of Formula I: | 04-17-2014 |
20140106080 | ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE COATING - Ultraviolet curable compositions are disclosed that can be applied to achieve a uniform gloss after curing even under conditions of varying ultraviolet intensity during curing, that do not require continuous agitation to keep flattening agents and other additives suspended prior to application of the composition, and/or which do riot exhibit a significant increase in viscosity over time in a roll coater application. | 04-17-2014 |
20140135434 | POLYESTER BINDER FOR FLOORING PRODUCTS - A flooring product is provided comprising at least one layer including a polymeric binder comprising at least one thermoplastic polyester resin, wherein the polyester resin comprises at least one renewable component. A flooring product is also provided that includes at least one layer comprising filler and at least one thermoplastic, high molecular weight polyester resin. The flooring product may also qualify for at least one point under the LEED System. A composition is also provided that can be melt mixed in low intensity mixers and processed into flooring layers. | 05-15-2014 |
20140295195 | BIOBASED RESILIENT FLOOR TILE - A biobased resilient tile includes at least one base layer, at least one film layer, and a topcoat. The base layer includes a polymeric binder and a filler. The base layer has at least about 20-95% weight of the filler and at least about 5% weight of recycled material. The film layer is supported by the base layer. The film layer is a rigid film selected from the group consisting of polyethyleneterephthalate, glycolated polyethyleneterephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polypropylene terephthalte, or a thermoplastic ionomer resin. The film layer includes recycled material. The topcoat is provided on the film layer. The topcoat is a radiation curable biobased coating comprising a biobased component selected from the group consisting of a biobased resin, a biobased polyol acrylate, or a biobased polyol. | 10-02-2014 |