Patent ID: 7112364

Claim:
A glass-faced architectural panel comprising: a first element including a glass sheet for facing the panel, and the first element having a rear surface; a foam body formed from a foam-producing resinous material, the foam body having a front surface and a rear surface, the front surface of the foam body being bonded to the rear surface of the first element such that the foam body provides support for the first element; and a further element directly bonded to the rear surface of the foam body to form a backing to the glass-faced architectural panel; wherein the foam body has a varying degree of foaming between the front and rear surfaces whereby substantially zero percent foaming occurs within the foam body at the front surface and a progressively increasing degree of foaming occurs between the front surface of the foam body and the rear surface of the foam body, and the further element comprises a cloth impregnated by the foam-producing resinous material of the foam body, at the rear surface of the foam body, which bonds a front surface of the cloth directly to the rear surface of the foam body.