Abstract: A method for creating an embossed effect in a desired pattern on a film by printing an agent on said film in said desired pattern to lower the stability of said film in the print areas against heat distortion and laminating said film to a substrate by fusion immediately after the substrate is extruded to cause said print areas to distort and give an embossed appearance as a result of the heat incident to the fusion.
Abstract: A heat and pressure consolidated laminate in which the back most sheet has fused thereto a surface film composition of polyvinyl alcohol, animal glue or starch which serves a glue line to which conventional glues adhere, the film being adhered to the back most sheet during heat pressure consolidation of the laminate by transferring the same from a release layer to the back most surface of the laminate and fusing the transferred film to the thermosetting resin impregnated in the back sheet.