Decorative laminate

Claim 1

A UNITARY HEAT- AND PRESSURE-CONSOLIDATED LAMINATED ARTICLE WHICH COMPRISES (I) A RIGIDLY-IMPARTING BASE MEMBER. (II) A PRINT SHEET MEMBER DIRECTLY BONDED TO SAID BASE MEMBER COMPRISING A SHEET OF FIBRILLATED WETSPUN FILAMENTS OF A POLYMER OF ACRYLONITRILE IMPREGNATED FROM ORGANIC SOLUTION WITH FROM ABOUT 35 TO 65% BY WEIGHT BASED ON THE DRY WEIGHT OF THE IMPREGNATED SHEET, OF A SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY CURED RESINOUS COMPOSITION WHICH, IN ITS UNCURED STATE, IS A CURABLE RESINOUS COMPOSITION COMPRISING COMPONENTS (A) AND (B), WHEREIN SAID (A) IS A REACTIVE WATER-DISPERSIBLE ESSENTIALLY LINEAR COPOLYMER HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF FROM ABOUT 10,000 TO 1,000000 OF (A) FROM ABOUT 50% TO 98% BY WEIGHT OF A MONOETHYLENCIALLY UNSATURATED HARDENING COMONOMER CONTAINING NO FUNCTIONAL GROUPS REACTIVE WITH COMPONENT (B), (B) FROM ABOUT 2% TO 50% BY WEIGHT OF A MONOETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED COMONOMER CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE FUNCTIONAL GROUP REACTIVE WITH COMPONENT (B), THE WEIGHTS OF SAID (A) AND (B) BEING BASED ON THE TOTAL WEIGHT OF MONOMERS IN SAID COPOLYMER AND WHEREIN SAID COMPONENT (B) IS A CROSS-LINKING AMOUNT OF A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF THE ALKYL ETHERS OF POLYMETHYLOLATED MELAMINES HAVING FROM ABOUT 5 TO 6 ALKOXYMETHYL GROUPS, SAID ALKOXYMETHYL GROUPS CONTAINING 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, INCLUSIVE, AND A 3,4EPOXYCYCLOHEXYLMETHYL 3,4-EPOXYCYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLATE, THE WEIGHT RATIO OF SAID (A) TO SAID (B) BEING FROM ABOUT 1:1 TO ABOUT 4:1, RESPECTIVELY, AND (III) A SUBSTANTIALLY CLEAR PROTECTIVE TOP LAYER FROM ABOUT 0.5 TO 7 MILS IN THICKNESS, DIRECTLY BONDED TO PRINT SHEET (II), COMPRISING A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) A SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY CURED RESINOUS COMPOSITION WHICH, IN ITS UNCURED STATE, IS A CURABLE RESINOUS COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAID (A) AND (B) IN THE RATIO OF ABOUT 1:1 TO ABOUT 4:1, WHEREIN SAID (A) HAS A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF ABOUT 10,000 TO 1,000,000, (B) A SUBSTANTIALLY NON-POROUS THERMOPLASTIC POLYMERIC FILM HAVING A SOFTENING POINT ABOVE ABOUT 100*C., AND (C) A REINFORCING SHEET OF FIBRILLATED WET-SPUN FILAMENTS OF A POLYMER OF ACRYLONITRILE IMPREGNATED WITH A RESINOUS COMPOSITION SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (IIA) AND (IIB).