Patent ID: 9574056
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B05D,B29C,B29K,B65H,C08J,C08K

Claim:
1. A method of making a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane composite, the method comprising: applying a sizing composition to a plurality of fibers to make sized fibers, wherein the sizing composition comprises at least one curative for a thermoplastic polyurethane prepolymer; contacting the sized fibers with the thermoplastic polyurethane prepolymer composition to form a resin-fiber amalgam, wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane prepolymer composition includes 50 wt. % or less of a total amount of the at least one curative that is also present on the sized fibers; and curing the resin-fiber amalgam to form the fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane composite.