Patent ID: 7101606

Claim:
An embossed surface covering comprising; a foam layer, wherein the foamed layer has a foamed region and a substantially non-foamed region, and wherein the foamed region and substantially non-foamed region are selectively disposed in accordance with a pre-determined pattern; a continuous wear layer overlying the foam layer, wherein the wear layer is substantially uniform in composition and wherein the melt viscosity of the wear layer overlying the foamed region is substantially the same as the melt viscosity of the wear layer overlying the non-foamed region; and a continuous topcoat overlying the wear layer, wherein the continuous topcoat is the outermost topcoat and the cross-link density of the topcoat overlying the foamed region is substantially the same as the cross-link density of the topcoat overlying the non-foamed region and wherein the wear layer and the topcoat have an embossed surface texture set predominantly into the portion of the wear layer and the topcoat overlying the non-foamed region.