Abstract: An apparatus decorates manufactured articles via thermosetting powder paint. The apparatus contains a decoration station with a plane, a decoration unit having a rotating cylinder supported by a carriage movable along the longitudinal extension of the manufactured articles, and a system for applying the paint to the cylinder and transferring the paint onto the manufactured articles. The outer surface of the cylinder has engraved cavities, which represent the pattern to be reproduced on the manufactured articles and are designed to contain the paint. The system has a reservoir to contain the paint, which contacts the outer surface of the cylinder and is introduced into the cavities. The reservoir has a bottom with a free end placed close to the outer engraved surface of the cylinder to identify a point for the fall of the paint from the cavities to the manufactured articles during the rotation of the cylinder.

Abstract: Transfer printing process wherein the color transfer occurs by sublimation, characterized in that a composite film is used formed, in the order, by a synthetic material film or lamina, which is such as to resist without getting deformed the temperatures reached in the calendering phase which are in the range 170°-210°C., having a thickness ranging from 6 to 100 micron; by an aluminum layer, having a thickness ranging from 50 to 400 Å; by a drawing, with the respective colors, impressed on the aluminum layer.