Soft textile coatings resembling napa leather

Claim 1

Process for the production of textile coatings which have an exceptionally soft hand resembling that of napa leather by applying a polurethane paste which contains melamine formaldehyde resins and/or urea-formaldehyde resins as a bonding coat and another polyurethane paste as top coat to textile supports in the form of webs by the reversal process followed by evaporation of the solvent or dispersing agent and simultaneous acid catalysed cross-linking of the components of the bonding coat, characterised in that the bonding coats used are pastes with a solids content of from 30 to 70%, by weight, consisting of: 100 parts, by weight, of a polyurethane from (1) a prepolymer from (a) dihydroxy polyesters or dihydroxy polyethers; and (b) aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates with a proportion of cycloaliphatic diisocyanates of at least 25 mol %; the equivalent ratio of (b)/(a) being from 1.4 to 2.5; and (2) hydrazine as chain lengthening agent; and from 1 to 10 parts, by weight, of a melamine-formaldehyde resin and/or a urea-formaldehyde resin; and that self supporting sheets produced from the bonding coat pastes have microhardness (Shore A)≦ 50 and moduli (at 100%)≦ 15 kp/cm 2 .