Patent ID: 6908661

Claim:
A method of mass producing insulating panels for covering windows and the like, each panel comprising a number of elongated tubular sections of flexible sheet material laminated together to provide a panel comprising many elongated aligned cells, each of the cells, when extending horizontally and in vertically-spaced expanded relation, being formed by top and bottom wall portions and front and rear wall portions connecting with front and rear margins of the upper and lower wall portions of each cell, the method comprising the steps of: providing at least two continuous substrate sheets made of differently appearing materials; securing at least one of the longitudinal margins of the two substrate sheets together to form a continuous multi-substrate sheet web and, where necessary, performing other steps, to form a continuous tubular web; laminating longitudinally-spaced tubular segments of the web severed or to be severed therefrom to form tubular strips forming the laminated tubular sections of the panel when severed from the web, and severing the segments of the web to form the panel of laminated segments, wherein the front side of the completed panel is comprised only of one of the substrate sheets having the same appearance and the rear side of the panel is comprised only of the other of the substrate sheets having a different appearance.