Patent ID: 8079184

Claim:
A pedestrian trafficable skid-resistant flexible article, said article adapted to be stored in a roll and unrolled prior to application to a surface, said article comprising a flexible substrate suitable for application to a roof, floor or package, said flexible substrate comprising at least one support layer comprising a woven fabric, a non-woven fabric, a polyolefin film, spun bonded polypropylene or woven polypropylene and having a first major surface adapted to contact said roof, floor or package and an opposite second major surface adapted to be exposed to pedestrian traffic, wherein said second major surface has a non-skid coating comprising a filled textured binder, wherein the filled textured binder is a pressure sensitive adhesive and includes inorganic filler particles in an amount of at least 25 percent by volume of the filled textured binder, and wherein at least 98% of the filler particles within a selected 100 cm 2 area of the non-skid coating are completely coated with the binder.