EP0007745A1 - Kunststoffschaumfolie und Verfahren zu deren Herstellung - Google Patents

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EP0007745A1
EP0007745A1 EP79301369A EP79301369A EP0007745A1 EP 0007745 A1 EP0007745 A1 EP 0007745A1 EP 79301369 A EP79301369 A EP 79301369A EP 79301369 A EP79301369 A EP 79301369A EP 0007745 A1 EP0007745 A1 EP 0007745A1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N—WALL, FLOOR, OR LIKE COVERING MATERIALS, e.g. LINOLEUM, OILCLOTH, ARTIFICIAL LEATHER, ROOFING FELT, CONSISTING OF A FIBROUS WEB COATED WITH A LAYER OF MACROMOLECULAR MATERIAL; FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N7/00—Flexible sheet materials not otherwise provided for, e.g. textile threads, filaments, yarns or tow, glued on macromolecular material
    • D06N7/0005—Floor covering on textile basis comprising a fibrous substrate being coated with at least one layer of a polymer on the top surface
    • D06N7/0028—Floor covering on textile basis comprising a fibrous substrate being coated with at least one layer of a polymer on the top surface characterised by colour effects, e.g. craquelé, reducing gloss
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N—WALL, FLOOR, OR LIKE COVERING MATERIALS, e.g. LINOLEUM, OILCLOTH, ARTIFICIAL LEATHER, ROOFING FELT, CONSISTING OF A FIBROUS WEB COATED WITH A LAYER OF MACROMOLECULAR MATERIAL; FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N3/00—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof
    • D06N3/0056—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof characterised by the compounding ingredients of the macro-molecular coating
    • D06N3/0065—Organic pigments, e.g. dyes, brighteners
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N—WALL, FLOOR, OR LIKE COVERING MATERIALS, e.g. LINOLEUM, OILCLOTH, ARTIFICIAL LEATHER, ROOFING FELT, CONSISTING OF A FIBROUS WEB COATED WITH A LAYER OF MACROMOLECULAR MATERIAL; FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N3/00—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof
    • D06N3/007—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof characterised by mechanical or physical treatments
    • D06N3/0077—Embossing; Pressing of the surface; Tumbling and crumbling; Cracking; Cooling; Heating, e.g. mirror finish

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  • This invention relates to foam plastics sheet materials, for example, with foamed wallcoverings having decorative effects based mainly on comparative colour intensity. Such effects can be achieved by the necessary number of printing operations, possibly with simultaneous mechanical embossing, but this tends to increase cost and the practical range of variation becomes limited.
  • the invention aims to provide a new way of producing, in foam wallcovering and the like, decorative effects based on colour intensity without the need for supplementary printing operations and mechanical embossing and providing an easy way of controlling colour intensity, the control being co-related and registered with relief decorative effects.
  • the material according to the invention comprises a substrate web having thereon a base coat and a foam coat characterised in that the base coat comprises an organic pigment and some of the pigment has migrated through the foam coat to the surface of the foam coat so that the overall surface of the material exposes two different colourations.
  • the coats may be partial or overall so long as a part of the foam coat overlaps the base coat to give a migration path.
  • the two colourations may differ in intensity or differ in spectral position.
  • the foam coat may have varying thickness so that the amount of pigment migrating to the surface varies according to the thickness.
  • the invention also provides a process for the production of a decorative sheet material comprising applying to at least parts of the surface of a substrate web a composition 'containing an organic pigment, applying, over at least some of the parts of the substrate to which said organic pigment had been applied, a foamable composition containing a thermoplastic polymeric material and a heat decomposable blowing agent, and heating said coated substrate to effect foaming of the foamable composition, wherein said organic pigment is soluble in, and migrates into, said foamable composition to the extent that some appear on the surface of the material.
  • the pigment composition may be printed on to selected areas of the substrate and then the foamable composition may be applied as an overall coating.
  • the foamable composition is applied only to some of the areas to which the pigment composition has been applied (whether or not the pigment composition had been applied overall)
  • the foam areas above the migratory pigment bearing areas of the substrate will be depicted in a colour or tone contrasting to that of those areas where the pigment composition, but not the foam composition, had been applied.
  • Both the migratory pigment composition and the foam composition may be applied as overall coatings with the foam composition varying in thickness, such as by applying a foamable composition of varying thickness or by using a chemical embossing technique or coating on to a pre-embossed substrate. The valleys regions of the foamed material will then exhibit a deeper colouration than the peaks.
  • the amount of migratory pigment, in the areas to which the migratory pigment composition is applied is preferably in the range 0.1 to 5 g/n 2 .
  • the amount of migratory pigment, in the areas to which the migratory pigment composition is applied is preferably in the range 0.1 to 5 g/n 2 .
  • the substrate web may be any sheet or film material or may be a textile web. Particularly suitable substrates include paper, board, wood, plastics film or sheet, and woven or non-woven textiles made of natural or synthetic fibrous materials.
  • the substrate web may be given a coating, over some or all of its surface, of a material containing a polymeric binder prior to application of the migratory pigment composition.
  • an overall ground coat may be applied.
  • the ground coat may form the migratory pigment coating by incorporation of the migratory pigment into a conventional ground coat.
  • the migratory pigment composition preferably contains a polymeric binder.
  • the binder may be thermoplastic or thernosetting and may be a synthetic or a natural polymeric material.
  • binders include the thermoplastic polymeric materials listed hereinafter in relation to the foamable composition, thermosetting polymers such as polyurethanes, phenol formaldehyde, urea formaldehyde, or melanine formaldehyde resins, synthetic rubbers, natural polymeric materials such as rubber, starch, gums and rosins.
  • the migratory pigment composition may be applied in liquid form and dried or fused or by application of a powdered or particulate migratory pigment to an adhesive layer on the substrate.
  • the migratory pigment composition may be an ink or lacquer containing the migratory pigment. Alternatively it may comprise a plastisol.
  • olefins for example, ethylene, propylene, butene, isobutene
  • vinyl chloride vinyl esters, for example vinyl acetate; vinylidene chloride
  • vinyl ethers vinyl ethers
  • thermoplastic cellulosic polymers such as cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate. Mixtures of polymers may be employed.
  • thermoplastic polymeric materials include homopolymers of vinyl chloride and copolyners of vinyl chloride with comonomers such as vinyl acetate, vinyl ethers, vinylidene chloride and olefins; copolymers of esters of acrylic or methacrylic acids; and cellulose nitrate. Vinyl chloride homo and copolymers are particularly preferred.
  • suitable organic pigments for the preliminary coating are those that are soluble in the plasticiser employed.
  • suitable organic pigments include C.I. Pigment Red 5, 7 and 112; C.I. Pigment Yellow 1 and 3: C.I. Pigment Orange 5; C.I. Pigment Violet 2; and C.I. Pigment Green 7.
  • the C.I. Pigment numbers refer to the classified group of pigments as set out in the "Society of Dyers and Colorists, Colour Index" second edition and supplement 1963.
  • the migratory pigment composition may contain the same or different polymeric material to cnat containe in the foamable composition.
  • Additives that modify the decomposition temperature of the blowing agent may be. incorporated into the composition.
  • the migratory pigment composition may itself contain a heat decomposable blowing agent.
  • the foamable composition is preferably applied at a rate of 4C to 1200 g of binder material in the foamable composition per square metre of substrate.
  • the foamable composition preferably contains 0.5 to 15%, particularly 1 to 10%, by weight of blowing agent, based cn the weight of the binder material in the composition.
  • binder material we mean the non-volatile components of the coating composition, that, on heating, coalesce to form an integrated film.
  • inorganic non- film forming ingredients such as fillers and pigments are excluded.
  • a printed pattern may be applied, if desired, by known printing techniques, to the substrate bearing the layer of the foamable composition. Additionally, or alternatively, a wear layer of transparent polymeric composition, e.g. an unpigmented vinyl plastisol, may be applied. Where, after application of the foamable composition, the substrate is printed, whether with an ink containing a compound that modifies the decomposition temperature of the blowing agent or simply with a decorative ink, the wear layer, if used, should be applied after application of the ink.
  • the coating compositions may contain other conventional ingredients, e.g. pigments, dyes, fillers, extenders, plasticisers, stabilisers, and viscosity modifiers.
  • the coated substrate After application of the foamable composition, and after application of any printing and or wear layers thereto, the coated substrate is heated to cause foaming.
  • the migratory pigment composition contains a heat decomposable blowing agent, it should not be foamed prior to application of the foamable composition unless the migratory pigment composition is of such a nature that, on decomposition of the blowing agent, a residual foamed coating is obtained. This is largely a matter of the proportion of the binder material relative to the proportion of other ingredients, such as pigments, in the migratory pigment composition.
  • the proportion of binder is such that the coating of the migratory pigment composition is merely a layer of blowing agent, migratory pigment, and any other solid ingredients adherent to the substrate, rather than a continuous matrix of the binder encapsulating the solid ingradients, upon heating to decompose the blowing agent, the gas evolved will be lost to the atmosphere and little or no foaming will occur. In such cases it is necessary that the blowing agent in the migratory pigment composition is not decomposed until after application of the foamable composition.
  • a base paper 10 has applied to it a pattern in the form of spaced parallel lines 11 of pigmented ink (exaggerated in the depth dimension). This was dried and then partially coated with a plastisol at two thicknesses 12a, 12b and the plastisol was foamed.
  • the lines 11 which were not covered with foam presented their strong original colour.
  • the lines 11 below foam thickness 12a migrated through the foam to reach the surface (indicated by open cross-hatching) to present the pigment colour lla reduced in intensity.
  • the foam thickness 12b pigment migration had taken place but the surface of the material had not been reached, level 13 only being reached.
  • an embossed paper base 20 has been given an overall coating 21 of pigmented ink (exaggerated in the depth dimension).
  • This overall coating 21 was then itself coated overall with a foamable plastisol composition 22, the composition being at various depths by reason of the embossing of base 20.
  • the plastisol composition 22 was then heated to cause the plastisol to foam and take up various dayths and the pigment in the ink to migrate.
  • Pigment migrates intensely to level 30 (as indicated by the close hatched box); it migrates weakly to the level 31 (as indicated by the open hatched box); and migration stops at level 33 and hence level 32 of the foam is unpigmented.
  • a brown printing ink was nade up to the following forzulation:
  • a white grounded wallpaper base paper of substance 1 20 gm -2 was printed flexographically with the ink in a simple design consisting of lines and dots.
  • the printed paper was dried and then screen printed with a PVC plastisol of the following formulation in a series of broad stripes of thickness 0.1 mm.
  • the plastisol print was gelled at 150°C for 20 secs. and then a second plastisol of the same formulation overprinted onto the gelled print in the form of a few narrow stripes.
  • the wallcovering was then heated at 200 °C for 60 secs. to expand the vinyl print.
  • the single layer of plastisol expanded to a thickness of 0.6 mm and showed the original flexo print design in orange where the orange pigment alone had migrated into the foam layer on heating. This contrasted with the original dark brown print design in the valleys between the plastisol print.
  • the double thickness of plastisol print expanded to a thickness of 1.3 mm and showed no migration of the pigment, remaining completely white.
  • a 150 gm -2 wallpaper base paper was given an all over air knife coating of an orange ground coat of the following formulation:
  • the coating was dried at 120°C to give a dry weight of 25 gm -2 and then the coated paper mechanically embossed with an overall design having many different depths of emboss.
  • the embossed paper was then given an all over coating of foamable plastisol of formulation as in example 1 by means of a knife over roller coater.
  • Total plastisol coat weight was 150 gm -2 but the coat thickness varied depending on the depth of embos3 in the paper.
  • the coating was then foamed by heating at 200°C for 75 secs.
  • the resulting product showed the emboss in the paper in reverse relief and had the appearance of being valley inked.
  • the orange pigment had migrated through to the surface but in the high relief areas where the thickness of foam was greater than 1.0 mm the foamed PVC remained white. In between the extremes the orange colouration varied in strength as the foam thickness varied.
  • a printing ink was made up to the following formulation:
  • the pigment (C.I. Pigment Violet 2) is soluble in dicaprylphthalate.
  • a wallpaper base paper of substance 90 g/m 2 was sereen printed with the above ink to a floral design.
  • the combined weight of blowing agent and pigment applied was 4.7 g/m 2 to the printed areas.
  • the printed paper was dried and then coated with a PVC plastisol having the formulations as given in Example 1.
  • the plastisol was applied as an overall coating of thickness 0.25 mm (corresponding to a polymer weight of 162 g/m 2 ) and then the coated paper was heated in an oven for 60 sees. at 200°C to effect foaming.
  • the resultant product displayed the floral design in a fine blister texture which was pale pink in colour, while the parts of the foam that were not above the printed pattern exhibited a smooth white coloured surface.

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