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Article: Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Multiple Gloss Level Surface Covering Making Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 12, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 12 -- Dong Tian and Ralph W. Wright, Jr., both of Lancaster, Pa., and Scott Whalen of Mount Joy, Pa., have developed a multiple gloss level surface coverings making system.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for providing surface coverings with differential gloss, and surface coverings prepared by the method, are disclosed. The methods involve screen printing or rotogravure printing a relatively low gloss primer onto portions of a substrate surface covering. The primer-coated substrate is then coated with a relatively higher gloss coating composition, and the coating compositions are cured, advantageously in a single curing step. The result ...