Abstract: A method of applying an applique to a support, comprising the steps of providing a cover layer of synthetic plastic sheet material having a design surface with an outer contour line, a narrow outer bonding zone along the outer contour line and at least one inner bonding zone spaced inwardly from the outer bonding zone; further providing an intermediate layer of a resiliently compressible latently adhesive thermoplastic material having spaces filled with a gaseous medium; sandwiching the intermediate layer between the cover layer and a support material; and pressing against the cover layer die means having outer and inner pressure faces corresponding to the outer and inner bonding zones and a raised cutting edge fixed along the outer pressure face and corresponding to the contour line, while activating the latently adhesive thermoplastic material of the intermediate layer and thereby bonding the cover layer by the intermediate layer in the outer and inner bonding zones to the support material while severing th

Abstract: A light-reflective safety device for children walking on dark roads has a tag composed of an opaque layer of plastic foam sandwiched between a colored translucent layer of vinyl and a clear transparent layer of vinyl. The layers are heat-bonded to one another in a zone extending along the tag periphery and in zones inwardly of the tag periphery. In these zones the foam has melted and the color of the one layer is visible through the clear layer. Within each zone a convex area is formed from which impinging light is reflected and scattered. A hanger serves to secure the tag to the child.