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 t

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 t

Abstract: Thermoplastic materials, such as polyvinylchoride, cannot normally be heat bonded to certain higher-melting synthetic fabrics, such as nylon or the like, which are of the densely woven type and are also frequently treated with silicone or analogous substances to make them water repellant and/or windproof. The present method overcomes this problem by heat-bonding such materials under pressure and the application of a dielectric field, and by causing sufficient dielectric resistance to be present at the synthetic fabric so that the dielectric field is able to heat the synthetic fabric to a temperature at which it becomes sufficiently flowable to bond with the thermoplastic material.

Abstract: A top layer of transparent or translucent thermoplastic sheet material is printed on one side with a set of black color lines which form design lines that visually subdivide the one side into a plurality of portions. It is also printed on the other side with similar design lines registering with the ones on the first side, and in the portions it is printed with transparent inks of different colors. To one side of the sheet there is laminated a transparent second sheet, and the finished article has the appearance of a stained-glass object.