It is the principal object of the present invention to provide an improved fabric coating composition containing phase change material of a density sufficient to effect or control heat and energy transfer across the coating and/or store heat in the coating.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a coating composition of the foregoing character which will maintain substantially all of the breathability, flexibility or other principal qualities of the fabric to which it is applied.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide coated fabrics having the aforementioned properties which are resistant to heat, pressure and chemicals encountered during the coating process.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide coated fabrics having the aforementioned qualities which are durable, resistant to heat, moisture, solvents, laundering, and/or drycleaning, without degradation to or loss of the phase change material.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide an improved method of applying coating compositions containing phase change materials and having the aforementioned qualities as coatings on fabrics by utilizing commercially available equipment.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide an improved method of applying coatings containing phase change materials to fabrics without damage or degradation to the phase change materials.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide an improved method for evenly dispersing phase change material throughout a binder and maintaining an even distribution of the phase change material while coating a fabric with the binder and phase change material dispersion.