SHEET OF MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

摘要

A sheet of material 30 having fibers 43 and a thermoplastic material 44 binding the fibers and the thermoplastic material together, as well as a method of making the same, is provided. The thermoplastic material 44 comprises fibers that were initially mixed with the other fibers 43 to provide a fiber textile-like mat 36 that was subject to heat and pressure to melt the thermoplastic fibers and densify the mat so that subsequent cooling of the thermoplastic material in the densified mat caused the cooled thermoplastic material to set and thus caused the cooled densified mat to be a substantially rigid sheet of material.