Surface material and method of manufacturing the same

Abstract

To provide a surface material comprising main surfaces which are excellent feeling in touch and hardly cause fiber dropouts, and to provide a method for producing the same. In a surface material comprising binder and a monolayer fabric, it was found that a surface material satisfying both of the following configurations is a surface material with main surfaces which are excellent feeling and hardly cause fiber dropoutsa configuration that there is no layer of binder on both main surfaces in the fabric, and,a configuration that there are one or more layers of binder between both main surfaces in the fabric. In addition, a method of manufacturing a surface material comprising a step of applying the solvent and/or the dispersion medium to the one main surface, to which the binder liquid is applied, of a monolayer fabric, the binder liquid applied to the main surface can be pushed from the one main surface to the inner side of the monolayer fabric by a solvent and/or a dispersion medium so that the binder liquid does not exist on the one main surface. Therefore, a surface material satisfying the constitution of claim 1 can be manufactured.

1 . A surface material comprising a binder and a monolayer fabric, the monolayer fabric having a first main surface and, on a side opposite the first main surface, a second main surface, wherein one or more layers of said binder are present only in an inner side of the first main surface of said monolayer fabric and only in an inner side of the second main surface of said monolayer fabric. 
     
     
         2 . A method for manufacturing a surface material according to  claim 1 , comprising:
 (1) preparing a monolayer fabric,   (2) preparing a binder liquid comprising a binder, and a solvent and/or a dispersion medium for the binder,   (3) applying the binder liquid to one main surface of the monolayer fabric,   (4) applying the solvent and/or the dispersion medium to the one main surface of the monolayer fabric, and   (5) removing the solvent and/or the dispersion medium from the monolayer fabric.