Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing a multi-color ink pattern on a substrate surface which comprises arranging a series of patterned surfaces with each patterned surface having a pattern that is unique to one of the colors and that corresponds to the pattern of that color in the multi-color pattern, supplying to each patterned surface a radiation-curable ink formulation, having an appropriate colorant to form an ink pattern thereon, transferring individually the color pattern from each patterned surface to a collector roll, increasing the cohesiveness of the ink sufficiently to permit complete transfer of the pattern, forming a composite of the color patterns on a collector roll, and transferring the composite pattern in its entirety to the substrate surface.

Abstract: A method of applying graphic images to a fibreglass surface. The graphic image is applied on an absorbent cellulose-based paper sheet. A coating of clear fibreglass resin is applied to the fibreglass surface and printed paper is then applied to the surface, before the resin has cured. A further coating of fibreglass resin is then applied on top of the paper, thus encasing it in resin.

Abstract: A process for the transfer printing of a golf club head including steps of forming a golf club head, polishing the golf club head with sand blast which consists of particles of sand, powdered quartz, chilled iron globules, emery, or other hard granular material blown by a jet of compressed air, spraying paint on the golf club head thereby forming a layer of paint on the surface thereof, placing the golf club head into a furnace for baking for fixing the paint thereon, cooling the golf club head thus forming a semi-product, covering the golf club head with a piece of mold paper, and disposing the golf club head in a steam furnace at 260 degrees centigrade for 10 minutes hence causing the ink pattern on the mold paper to be printed on the paint of the golf club head consequently producing a golf club head with desired patterns thereon.

Abstract: A two-step press type transfer operation is made practical by a particular rendering of pictorializations for use upon the transfer sheets. A pictorialization should have a major portion of some object in the center of the pictorialization or a portion of a pictorialization in which a segmentation or division of such pictorialization is to be made so that one portion of the pictorialization may be placed upon one transfer sheet and a second portion of the pictorialization placed upon a second transfer sheet. Substantial straight linear portions of such pictorialization of this area are avoided and the division between the two portion of the image are run along nonlinear borders upon the edge of clearly defined structures within the pictorialization.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the transfer printing of a fabric web is provided. The apparatus includes a supply station for supplying a multi-layered web comprising a web of fabric to be printed and at least one substrate having a surface provided with a sublimation ink, the substrate being disposed in intimate frictional contact with the web of fabric so that the ink-carrying surface thereof is in contact with the web surface to be printed. The apparatus further includes a printing station for maintaining a slight pressure on the multi-layered web and for applying heat thereto to thereby effect the transfer of ink from the substrate to the web of fabric. A receiving station is also provided for separating the multi-layered web into a printed web of fabric and into at least one substrate, and further for collecting the printed web and substrate following the separation thereof.

Abstract: A filter and method for applying differential levels of active ingredient materials to specific areas of filters, such as the filter paper used to make disposable vacuum cleaner bags, so as to cause the effluent such as air which has passed through such filters to sustainably act as a dispersing agent for such filter-impregnated active ingredients as may condition the effluent which has passed through the filter in ways that are desirable to the user of the filter. The active ingredients are unevenly distributed on the filter substrate in a pattern determined by predicted changing flow rate patterns through the area of the substrate during intervals of increasing accumulation of particulate matter against the filter and effective to maximally sustain dispersion of active ingredient during such intervals.

Abstract: A surface covering product is disclosed which comprises a substrate material, an impervious coating upon said material, and, raised transparent or translucent or opaque colored elements printed upon said coating. The raised elements are formed as dot-shaped colored elements and comprise a thixotropic plastic. An opaque colored material surrounds the raised elements and a dot-like colored pattern is formed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for format patterning magnetic recording media with servo-control patterns is disclosed herein. The method comprises the steps of printing the control pattern using a resist in liquid form onto the media material by conventional printing techniques. A layer of a thin metallic film is then deposited over the resist and uncovered substrate areas. The resist and its overlayered metal is then removed using a liftoff technique by dissolving the resist in its particular solvent. A control pattern of deposited metallic film remains in those non-resist areas. In the alternative, the process can also use an etching bath to create the servo control pattern.

Abstract: A process for fabricating display panels in which which comprises printing one surface of a pulp paper with a plurality of printed image layers exactly overlaying and aligned with each other bonding; the image bearing surface of the pulp paper bonded to one surface of a panel base; and removing the pulp paper so that the display image is transferred to and remains on the panel base.

Abstract: A TV bulb and method of manufacture are disclosed. A collector printing process is utilized for applying TV phosphor compounds with associated black background to the inner face of the TV panel. Also, an offset printing process is utilized for printing an acid resist ink on both sides of a TV aperture mask after it has been formed into an approximate spherical or cylindrical shape. Masks and panels produced in accordance with the present invention are interchangeable during bulb manufacture.

Abstract: A collector printing process is utilized for applying thermoplastic pressure-sensitive inks, corresponding to the color TV phosphors and the black matrix, onto the inner face of the TV panel. Separate inks, formed of inorganic pigments and a thermoplastic pressure-sensitive medium, are each separately patterned. The separate inks are then printed in registration onto a collector to form a composite pattern. Upon completion, the composite pattern is completely transferred to the TV panel by contact of the collector against the inner panel face to form the target.

Abstract: Highly abrasion-resistant transfer coatings are provided on a wide variety of substrates, thermoplastic or thermosetting, by transfer coating from a mold surface or a flexible web, such as by use of a heat transfer tape, an ultra-thin coating consisting essentially of a non-resinous binder material such as microcrystalline cellulose together with mineral abrasive particles, preferably alumina or a mixture of silica and alumina which have been heated together at a temperature of at least 140.degree. F., the ultra-thin coating also preferably containing a silane and a small quantity of a sticking agent such as a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin.

Abstract: Highly abrasion-resistant transfer coatings are provided on a wide variety of substrates, thermoplastic or thermosetting, by transfer coating from a mold surface or a flexible web, such as by use of a heat transfer tape, an ultra-thin coating consisting essentially of a non-resinous binder material such as microcrystalline cellulose together with mineral abrasive particles, preferably alumina or a mixture of silica and alumina which have been heated together at a temperature of at least 140.degree. F., the ultra-thin coating also preferably containing a silane and a small quantity of a sticking agent such as a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the apparatus of the present invention includes a rotatably driven transfer means adapted to receive a design configuration and follower means synchronously driven therewith for carrying and orienting an article to receive the design from the transfer means into alignment therewith in nonslip rolling contact. The respective transfer means and article share a respective center and apex as established by the follower means. In another embodiment the transfer means and article are forced into engagement via an elastic interface.

Abstract: Radiation curable coating vehicles, suitable for transfer coating application and strippable from a variety of carrying webs, can be produced by proper selection of coating ingredients and cured either by actinic radiation or electron beams. Potential crosslink density (as herein defined), glass transition temperature and the relative presence or absence of specific adhesion-promoting functional groups are controlled to arrive at a coating composition having the desired degree of adhesion to the substrate to be coated and the carrying web which is to transfer the coating composition to that substrate.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and machine for applying a decal to a generally cylindrical article, particularly an article having a handle on one side thereof. A series of decals are attached to an elongated web and are spaced a generally constant distance apart in the direction of the length of the web. The machine includes supply and takeup spindles for rotatably supporting reels for the web, and a web drive for moving the web from the supply reel to the take-up reel. A mandrel rotatably supports the article and a movable head presses the web and the decal against an article on the mandrel. The web passes from the supply reel, between the mandrel and the head, and to the take-up reel. The machine further includes a brake which, when engaged, holds the web against movement, and a decal sensor assembly. After the machine is actuated to cause the movable head to press the decal against an article, the brake is actuated to release the web, and the web is then pulled across the article.

Abstract: A marking method and marking device for providing an image upon a steel material or other hardened surface. A toner image is formed on the surface of the marking drum having an elastic surface. The drum is placed in abutment with the material to be marked under pressure while at least one of the drum material to be marked is moved along the surface of the other to thereby transfer the toner image onto the surface to be marked. Toner fixing liquid is subsequently dispensed over the transferred image. Apparatus for driving and supporting the marking drum is disclosed including a swinging support arm which may be extendible in some embodiments so as to make the device capable of marking many types of surfaces.

Abstract: Method of dye absorption into the surface of plastics is accomplished by placing polyolefin film between a dye transfer paper and a sheet of thermoplastic and applying pressure and heat thereto. The heat applied is sufficient to sublime the dyes though the film to the plastic sheet. The dyes are absorbed into the surface of the plastic with the design intact. The materials are then cooled and separated and a decorated plastic sheet or article with wear-proof design is obtained. Thermoset plastics are similarly dye penetrated in this manner during the curing thereof.In mold dye decoration and penetration of thermoplastics and thermoset plastics is also disclosed.Further, post-pressure dye transfer to plastic sheet and plastic articles is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of gravure printing which comprises preparing a tone chart having tone scale images with known density values and known gradations between a series of steps between a deep shadow tone density value and a light shadow tone density value, etching a test tone cylinder to reproduce the tone chart and measuring and recording the cell geometry of each tone image on the test cylinder, placing the test cylinder on the press to be used and operating the press with ink and substrate selected for the copy to be reproduced, measuring the tone densities of the printed product samples obtained during the test run and recording this data along with the data on density values of the tone chart and the cell geometry of the test cylinder, determining from this data the tone scale and press operating conditions which will produce theoretically optimum reproduction on the press, preparing specifications, in terms of cell geometry, for engraving of production cylinders and preparing production cylinders according to the

Abstract: A specifically sized transferable indicia sheet has reference marks, which are also transferable guide marks, underlaid on a substantially transparent carrier sheet and arranged in a plurality of horizontal rows. Such guide marks are transferable to a correspondingly sized receiving surface by aligning left, right and top edges of the carrier sheet with corresponding edges of the receiving surface and rubbing the exposed surface of the carrier sheet over the guide marks. The area of the carrier sheet from which the guide marks have been removed is clear in contrast to the surrounding carrier sheet portions which have a frosted appearance. The clear areas of the indicia sheet formed by transfer of the guide marks to the receiving surface constitute reference marks.