Abstract: A process for producing decorative articles having patterns of surface concavities and convexities (unevennesses) comprises the steps of:(1) placing into mutual contact and laminating a hardenable decorative material layer and an expansion-contraction deformable sheet provided with regions susceptible to expansion-contraction deformation and regions not susceptible to said deformation;(2) causing the deformable sheet to undergo said deformation under pressure thereby to impart a pattern of unevennesses to the decorative material layer in contact with the sheet; and(3) causing the hardenable decorative material layer to fully harden.The sheet deformed under pressure imparts a unique pattern of surface unevennesses corresponding to the two kinds of regions to the decorative material layer. Decorative articles thus obtained can be applied to a wide variety of uses as materials for decorating architectural exteriors and interiors and as decorative boards.

Abstract: A printing pattern support sheet made up of a film soluble in water and a pattern pre-printed on one surface of the film is prepared beforehand. The pattern is activated, immediately before being used for transfer printing, into a tacky or adherent condition ready for printing by applying a solvent thereto. The sheet with the pattern thus activated is fed onto the free surface of a mass of water, whereby the film supporting the pattern is dissolved in the water to leave the pattern floating on the surface of the water. An article on the surface of which the pattern is to be printed is then forced against the floating pattern into the water, whereby the pattern is transferred and adheres to the article. To apply the solvent to the pattern, a gravure printing plate cylinder can be used.

Abstract: A printing pattern support sheet made up of a film soluble in water and a pattern pre-printed on one surface of the film is prepared beforehand. The pattern is activated, immediately before being used for transfer printing, into a tacky or adherent condition ready for printing by applying a solvent thereto. The sheet with the pattern thus activated is fed onto the free surface of a mass of water, whereby the film supporting the pattern is dissolved in the water to leave the pattern floating on the surface of the water. An article on the surface of which the pattern is to be printed is then forced against the floating pattern into the water, whereby the pattern is transferred and adheres to the article. To apply the solvent to the pattern, a gravure printing plate cylinder can be used.

Abstract: A process for producing decorative sheets which comprises: forming a pattern on a paper for decorative use with an ink containing a vehicle resin; causing the vehicle resin in the pattern to harden on the paper; impregnating the entire paper for decorative use including the pattern with a thermosetting resin to form an impregnated paper wherein a film of still uncured thermosetting resin is formed over the pattern; assembling a laminated structure by so superposing the impregnated paper on a base material that the surface of the paper bearing the pattern will become the outer surface and further placing a planar shaping member on the paper; subjecting the laminated structure to heating and pressing thereby to cause the thermosetting resin at parts other than the pattern to cure, leaving the thermosetting resin on the pattern in still uncured state; and peeling off the planar shaping member, under heat and after the termination of the pressing, thereby to form concavities on and coincident with the pattern in