DIFFERENTIAL GLOSS PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME

摘要

A method of making a differential gloss product which comprises: forming a gelled, potentially foamable, base resinous material (12); printing thereon a predetermined pattern (14), some portions containing a urethane polymerization catalyst and either the same or other portions containing a foaming inhibitor; applying to the printed pattern a resinous wear layer (16); gelling the resinous wear layer and foaming and fusing the resinous materials; applying a urethane top coating composition (18) containing no urethane polymerization catalyst to the resinous wear layer; heating to polymerize the portions of the urethane coating composition (18B) lying directly over the portions containing the urethane polymerization catalyst (14B) to create interspersed high gloss polymerized surfaces; mechanically embossing the entire urethane coating to cause texturing of the entire surface, applying a urethane polymerization catalyst substantially uniformly to the entire surface of said urethane coating composition either before or after the mechanically embossing step; and heating the thus textured urethane coating and said catalyst to polymerize the remaining surfaces of the urethane coating composition (18) to create thereat low gloss surfaces due to the mechanical embossing whereas the portions of the urethane coating which had been polymerized previously revert back to their original high gloss appearance.