Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water skimming or walking device
Patent
1992-01-23
1993-05-18
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water skimming or walking device
264132, 114357, B63B 100
Patent
active
052115933
ABSTRACT:
A system is disclosed for applying a graphics-imprinted skin to a substrate of expanded polyolefin foam. The system is used to create bodyboards and other foam devices with durable graphic images. The skin is made of a plurality of thin-film polyethylene layers adhesively bonded together. The outermost layer is a sheet of nonopaque (i.e., clear) polyethylene with graphic images imprinted on one side. The images are printed in reverse pattern and viewed through the polyethylene sheet from the other side. The nonopaque sheet is then adhesively bonded to an opaque backing sheet along the graphic-imprinted surface. The result is a flexible laminated skin material with visible graphics on one side. The skin material is then thermolaminated to the foam substrate with the graphics facing outwardly. A method of continuous fabrication is also disclosed.
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Moran Steven M.
Schneider Stephen E.
Kransco
Sotelo Jesus D.
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