Patent ID: 6673428
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: B01F,B05D,B29C,C08G,C08J,Y10T

Abstract:
A protective and decorative sheet material for covering substrates comprising:a thin flexible thermoformable polymeric support sheet; a protective and decorative paint layer adhered to one surface of said support sheet; said sheet material having a substantially unstressed relaxed state and a relaxed area prior to thermoforming; said thermoformable sheet material being heat softenable to a substantially plastic state in which it is plastically extendable and formable over three-dimensionally shaped irregular surfaces to an extended state having an extended area up to at least 50% greater than said relaxed area; and said protective and decorative paint layer being tenaciously adhered to said support sheet and having a substantially uniform quality and appearance in both said relaxed and extended states of said sheet material; wherein said protective and decorative paint layer comprises a pigmented exterior automotive base coat paint layer adhered to an exterior automotive outer clear coat layer, both of which are thermoplastically formable to an extended area at least 50% greater than said relaxed area, in which the base coat paint layer contains reflective flakes, in which the decorative and protective layer has a distinctness of image of at least 80 and a 20Â° gloss of at least 80 in both said relaxed and extended states, and in which the sheet material has a maximum optical density variation of less than 0.3 density units from the mean optical density of the sheet material.