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Transfer sheets and production of decorative articles therewith

US4482598A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 17, 1982
Grant dateNov 13, 1984
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Expiry dateSep 17, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/24917
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A transfer sheet comprising a releasable substrate and a heat-foamable pattern, and preferably a further foaming inhibiting pattern formed thereon is prepared, and these patterns are transferred onto a foamable resin layer such as a polyvinyl chloride plastisol containing a blowing agent. The entire structure is heated, whereupon there is obtained a decorative article in which a resin layer, as a whole, has foamed, and at the same time, at the parts where the foamable resin pattern has been transferred, projecting convex parts are formed by the foaming of the heat-foamable pattern, while depressed concave parts are formed at parts onto which the foaming inhibiting pattern has been transferred.

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