Appeal No. 2006-1392
Application No. 10/619,609
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
Claims 1 and 34 are representative of the subject matter on
appeal and read as follows:
1. Wall and floor coverings based on a carrier coated
with one or more layers, said carrier consisting essentially
of:
a fiberglass containing mat pre-consolidated with a
binder, and
a non-woven mat made of thermally fixed organic
synthetic fibers bound with said fiberglass mat by needling,
wherein part of said organic fibers penetrate through said
fiberglass mat and lie adjacent to a side of said fiberglass
containing mat that is opposite to said organic non-woven
mat; and
one or more layers coated on a glass fiber side of said
carrier, opposite the non-woven synthetic mat.
34. Wall and floor coverings comprising a carrier
coated with one or more layers, said carrier consisting
essentially of:
a glass fiber-containing mat pre-consolidated with a
binder; and
a non-woven mat comprised of thermally fixed organic
synthetic fibers bonded to said fiberglass mat by
hydrodynamic needling, wherein part of said organic fibers
penetrate through said glass fiber mat and lie adjacent to a
side of said glass fiber-containing mat that is opposite to
said organic fiber non-woven; and
at least one layer bonded to a glass fiber of said
carrier, opposite the non-woven synthetic mat.
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