Joseph A Kowalski

US Patent:

46939261, Sep 15, 1987

Filed:

Nov 25, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/936461

Inventors:

Joseph C. Kowalski - Snohomish WA
Donald A. Mottaz - Issaquah WA
Berton A. Cole - Bellevue WA

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

International Classification:

B32B 318
B32B 702
B32B 1508
B32B 3100

US Classification:

428204

Abstract:

Composite, lightweight, flexible, fire-resistant, decorative laminates (10, 10', 10") suitable for use as wall coverings on bulkhead panels in commercial aircraft include: (i) a laminar fire-resistant layer (15/14) including an aluminum foil sheet (15) bonded to a first inert polyvinyl fluoride sheet (14); (ii) an underlying flexible paper-like base lamination (11); (iii) means (12) for adhesively bonding the first polyvinyl fluoride sheet (14) to the panel-like base lamination (11); (iv) a resinous embossing film (16) overlying and in face-to-face bonded relation to the aluminum foil sheet (15); (v) sheet defining means (18, 18', 18") having an outer decorative surface and in overlying face-to-face bonded engagement with a resinous embossing film (16); and (vi), an outer transparent sheet (21) of clear polyvinyl fluoride overlying in bonded face-to-face relation with the decorative surface (19, 22) of the sheet defining means (18, 18', 18").