Abstract: A method of providing a substrate with a decorative coating simulating the appearance of grained wood. A continuous layer comprising an aqueous medium which contains a polymeric binder and a particulate, non film-forming material is applied to an opaque surface of the substrate (the particulate material and the resulting layer both being lighter in color than the opaque surface. While the layer remains in the liquid state, a tool having a longitudinal extending face which has a convex section transverse to the longitudinal direction thereof, is drawn along the layer, the face of the tool having a series of spaced ridges along the longitudinal direction. The tool is rocked about the face as the tool is drawn along the layer, so as to discontinuously remove parts of the layer and selectively expose part of the underlying surface and to produce a decorative appearance resembling heart grains of cut timber.

Abstract: In a strip-shaped mould for producing surface materials, in particular surfaces of melamine resin in the production of laminate panels, with a structured surface, a flexible strip (10) of paper or foil is provided with a layer (12) having a separating action in relation to the surface material, with the formation of slightly cross-linked regions, and a three dimensional shaped structure consisting of UV-hardening printing inks is applied thereto.

Abstract: This invention relates to a Printed Audio Layer For Packaging, Sporting Equipment and Toys. As the result of this textured grooved printing process audible sound files, can be recorded then printed out through the use of printed ink compounds. The printed grooves can be played back by movement from a fingernail or tool moved perpendicular to the grooved surface to form reproducible voice recordings. During the printing of folding cartons several applications of ink based products are used each having it's own color or function. In this application, the Printed Audio Layer is applied as a functional layer with clear or tinted compounds as a final step during its printing and before the cutout stamping and stacking operation is performed.

Abstract: A method for producing artificial marble having a stripe pattern comprising injecting liquid resins having different colors into a molding cell so that they are laminated to form two or more layers; then moving a comb-like tool through the laminated liquid resins while allowing the teeth to contact the bottom surface of the molding cell, then curing the liquid resins to form artificial marble, wherein, the comb-like tool is allowed to move through the liquid resins while the interval between teeth of the comb-like tool is allowed to vary. Artificial marble can be produced having a natural marble-like appearance in which the interval of stripe varies in a natural fashion or having a radial cut moire stripe pattern.

Abstract: A design roller sleeve has a plurality of absorbent strips that wrap about the axis of a paint roller in a helical fashion. Each of the strips has an array of flaps, in which large and small flaps are preferably alternated, extending outward from a backing portion of the strip. This roller is intended to be used for applying a visually random pattern to a uniformly colored and relatively wide horizontal surface such as a concrete driveway or patio When used for this purpose the design roller sleeve is loaded with paint and then spun within a spatter-box to remove excess paint before rolling a partly colored swath on the surface. In some cases the spatter-box is made on a job site by tearing away part of a lid of a shipping carton previously used to transport a design roller painting kit.

Abstract: Images are impressed on the surface of plastic tiles by a sublimation process. A tile having top and bottom surfaces is placed in a heating press having top and bottom platens. A transfer medium with a printed image thereon is placed in contact with the top surface of the tile. The tile is heated to a temperature sufficient to sublimate the dye and transfer the image onto the top surface of the tile. Heat is applied from both the top and bottom of the tile to prevent warping of the tile. The heat applied to the bottom of the tile is preferably slightly greater than the heat applied to the top of the tile.

Abstract: A paint applicator and method for applying a decorative finish to a surface including a dual roller handle and a pair of roller covers formed from long-napped wool, each roller cover mounted for independent rotation on the dual roller handle. When at least two paints having at least one different visually perceptible characteristic are respectively simultaneously applied to the surface by the pair of long-napped wool roller covers using the handle in an overlapping and arcing motion the decorative finish results. The resulting decorative finish is substantially similar to a surface finish created by a wool pad applicator, but is applied in much less time and with much less effort than that created by the wool pad applicator.

Abstract: A device for making decorative candles which have varied shapes and colors of wax throughout in an heated water bath and an apparatus utilizing said device comprised of multiple heated sources of melted wax suspended above an open topped waterproof box, having one side lined with a water proof gasket through which a waterproof sleeve communicates to a base plate upon which the candle is formed by moving the plate in three dimensions within the water bath and collecting thereon the colored wax, supplied to the top of the water by a heated tube means from selected sources of melted colored wax, as it sinks and cools in the water. The rate of cooling of the wax is controlled by the temperature of the water bath. The water borne wax is built up around a core candle or around a wick, stretched from the center of the plate to an arm, extending to the center of the plate from a rod extending from one edge of the plate to a selected height above the plate.

Abstract: A decorative painting kit including multiple-color paint applicators and a method of decoratively painting a surface though in situ surface blending of two or more paints of different colors by using a multiple-color paint applicator which is stroked over the same surface a sufficient number of time to at least partially blend the different paint colors. The partial in situ surface blending of two or more paints produces a decorative pattern on the painted surface that is color characterized by having areas with some of the original paint colors and other areas with various blends of the original paint colors thereon to produce a decoratively painted surface.

Abstract: A process for producing decorative, three-dimensionally structured coatings from polyurethane foam on a substrate. A foamable mixture based on a one-component or two-component system is applied to the substrate to be coated, optionally under pressure. The foamable mixture applied is spread, distributed and structured immediately thereafter and during foaming and incipient crosslinking of the mixture on the substrate under the influence of mechanical force, forms a layer.

Abstract: A method of continuously producing a continuous paint coat of substantially constant, pre-determined thickness, and displaying a plural colour, familial, non-modular pattern, on a surface of a moving substrate, comprising the steps of depositing at least two discontinuous, randomly patchy, differently coloured, component paint deposits, at a predetermined, constant, long term deposition rate for each component deposit in terms of the volume of paint per unit area of the surface, within a single stationary target area of the surface, or within stationary target areas of the surface respectively associated with the component deposits and at least partly aligned in the direction of movement of the substrate, and thereafter spreading and smoothing the component paint deposits carried by the substrate from the target area or areas, to form the continuous coat.

Abstract: An aesthetically enhanced building board is disclosed which is obtained by applying an effective shade coating to concavities of a building board having linear, curved, continuous or discontinuous concavities or any other concavities. In accordance with a cross-sectional geometry in crosswise direction of a groove 5 formed in a surface of a building board (A), level (hs), position (m), and jetting angle (.alpha.) are controlled, thereby a coating is applied in such a manner that color of the coating is deepest in a bottom of the groove 5 and, in sides, it becomes lighter from the bottom to the surface.

Abstract: An article comprising a substrate, and a textured, matte-finish, low adhesion backsize coating on one surface of the substrate, wherein the coating comprises polyvinyl carbamate having nitrogen-bonded hydrocarbon side chains which provide terminal alkyl groups more than five carbons in length.

Abstract: Overprintable thermoset decorating inks and methods of applying such inks to substrates are disclosed. The decorating inks include a reactive polymeric binder resin and a crystalline crosslinker. The reactive polymeric binder resin may comprise acrylics, epoxies, polyesters, urethanes and the like which possess high Tg values. The combination of high glass transition temperature resins and crystalline crosslinkers avoids the necessity of using diluents in the coating compositions. The coating composition is applied to a substrate by heating the composition to a first temperature below the curing temperature of the coating, applying the heated coating composition to the substrate, allowing the applied coating composition to cool sufficiently so it at least partially hardens, and heating the applied coating composition to a second temperature above the first temperature for a sufficient to cure the coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a pattern on a synthetic wood board to form, on a surface of the synthetic wood board, a pattern such as wooden grain and the like which is close to natural wood, to enhance the reality of woody like appearance. The synthetic wood board is formed by mixing 35-80 wt % of thermoplastic resin material and 20-65 wt %. By a first grinding process, the synthetic wood board is formed at its entire surface of at least one side thereof with a large number of wound stripes in one direction. By a colorant coating process, a colorant is coated on the surface on which said wound stripes are formed, the colorant impregnates in wood meal on the surface to generate blur. And some colorant remain in recess portion of the wound stripes to form recess pigment layer.

Abstract: A colored polymer obtained or obtainable by polymerization of a mixture consisting essentially of a dye and a triazine compound having at least two groups selected from alkoxymethylamino and hydroxymethylamino. The colored polymers may be used in the coloration of plastics, inks and colored reprographic toners.

Abstract: A process for decorating and/or coloring tile- or slab-shaped stone-like artificial or composite materials comprises the application of one or more sublimate colors to the surface to be decorated and/or colored, said application being carried out at a temperature range from about 50.degree. C. to 250.degree. C., said sublimate colors being supported on a suitable carrier. A natural or synthetic resin is mixed into the original composition of said artificial material in order to enhance the migration of color pigments through the tile or slab surface during the sublimation process. Thereby a good penetration of the color into the slab is achieved, and the color is still visible even after having removed the polished surface of the slabs by means of grinding.

Abstract: A building panel having a three-dimensionally patterned surface, and a method and apparatus for coating the building panel are disclosed. The building panel includes convex portions partially topcoated with a first coating, concave portions partially topcoated with a second coating which is different in color from the first coating, and between the concave and convex portions topcoated with a third coating which is different in color from the first and second coatings. The third coating layer topcoated over the intermediate portions is preferably darker in color than the first coating so as to emphasize the depth of the concave portions and hence the stereographic appearance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a pattern on a synthetic wood board to form, on a surface of the synthetic wood board, a pattern such as wooden grain and the like which is close to natural wood, to enhance the reality of woody like appearance. The synthetic wood board is formed by mixing 35-80 wt % of thermoplastic resin material and 20-65 wt %. By a first grinding process, the synthetic wood board is formed at its entire surface of at least one side thereof with a large number of wound stripes in one direction. By a colorant coating process, a colorant is coated on the surface on which said wound stripes are formed, the colorant impregnates in wood meal on the surface to generate blur. And some colorant remain in recess portion of the wound stripes to form recess pigment layer.

Abstract: Apparatus, kit and method for painting a marbleized pattern on an essentially flat interior surface using paints with a plurality of colors. Before beginning the process, if necessary, the surface is cleaned and prepared. This can include applying masking tape around the periphery of the area to be painted. Splotches of paint of one color are then applied to a portion of the total area to be painted using a stiff bristled brush. Splotches of other paint colors are then applied interspersed with the previous colors. The brush is then used to preliminarily blend the various splotches of paint. A special blending tool faced with wool is used to complete blending the paint. The wool face is moistened before use, and blending is completed by patting the paint with the wool face of the tool while changing the angles and locations of the tool between each contact. Accent veining lines can be added to the blended paint surface using a feather dipped into a paint of a different color than the blended surface.

Abstract: Disclosed are decorative surface coverings of the "inlaid" type having embossed patterns in register with inlaid patterns. Disclosed methods include the steps of: applying in a pattern on a first surface of a foamable layer an agent for modifying the foaming of said foamable layer to produce a foamable layer having a pattern of relatively nonfoamable areas and relatively foamable areas; applying a first collection of particulate resinous material substantially only to said areas containing said foaming modifier or only to said areas not containing said foaming modifier; and foaming said foamable layer in said relatively foamable areas.

Abstract: There is provided coated substrate where a filled flowable polyester composition is cured in contact with and bonded to the substrate. The composition contains 20 to 40% resin and in excess of 50% filler, the balance being welling agent, air release agent and catalyst.

Abstract: A method for forming a pattern on the surface of an aluminum extrusion comprises the steps of cleaning the surface of the aluminum extrusion; forming a film on the cleaned surface of the aluminum extrusion; providing a base color coating on the surface of the aluminum extrusion; baking the aluminum extrusion at a temperature of 150.degree.-300.degree. C.; washing the surface of the aluminum extrusion with an organic solvent; printing the pattern onto the base color coating by means of a power-driven metal roller which has the pattern formed on an external face thereof and which has ink provided thereon, and a polyurethane roller which contacts rotatably the external face of the metal roller and the base color coating of the aluminum extrusion for transfer printing the pattern from the metal roller to the base color coating of the aluminum extrusion; and forming a transparent protective film on the printed surface of the aluminum extrusion.

Abstract: A process is provided for continuously applying a substantially uniform and smooth filler of a water-based filler material to underlying wood substrates. The process comprises introducing the underlying wood substrates into a filler application area. Then, the initial temperature of the outer surface of the underlying wood substrates is determined. Prior to applying the water-based filler material, the initial temperature of said water-based filler material is determined. Prior to applying same to said underlying wood substrates, the initial temperature of the water-based filler material is continuously adjusted, based on the initial temperature of the underlying wood substrate, so that the final temperature of the water-based filler material of the outer surface of the underlying substrate is maintained. The water-based filler material is continuously applied to the outer surface of the underlying wood substrates in the filler application area.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for the safe and controlled production of glue chipped glass. This custom glue chipped glass processor and method facilitate the production of glue chipped glass for either artisans creating highly specialized works of art, or beginners in the field.

Abstract: The specification discloses a method and additive for increasing the surface activity of non-polar polymeric materials, and a non-polar polymeric material exhibiting increased surface activity. The invention employs an additive of the formulaA-B-A.sup.1wherein each of the A and A.sup.1 blocks which may be the same or different has a number molecular weight in the range of from about 200 to about 1000 daltons and is selected from the group substituted and unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl and alkylaryl units derived from one or more esters, organic acids, organic halides or organic acid halides, and units derived from alkyl or aryl isocyanates or ester-amides. The B-block is a polyepichlorohydrin unit derived from a polyepichlorohydrin polyol having at least two terminal hydroxyl groups and having an average molecular weight in the range of from about 400 to about 4000 daltons.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing marbleized surfaces is disclosed herein. The apparatus for producing the marbleized surfaces included a liquid containment vessel or bath, stretches and a wide variety of combs for use in the marbleizing process. A coloring composition is applied by floating it on the surface of the bath. One of the variety of marbling combs is swept across the surface of the bath to produce marbleized patterns. Material is then placed on the surface of the bath to transfer the marbleized patterns to the material.

Abstract: A tool and method for applying a texture slurry to a surface is provided. The tool comprises a flat, rectangular body for mating to a smooth surface, such as a repaired portion of drywall. The body has a multiplicity of spatially positioned openings disposed therethrough. Each of the openings has a predetermined configuration and position on the tool, for providing a pattern substantially matching the appearance of existing textured surface adjacent to the smooth surface. The invented method includes first affixing the tool to the smooth area of the surface, then applying a texture slurry to the tool. The spatially positioned openings receive the slurry to apply the slurry to the smooth surface for forming a newly textured area. The spatially positioned openings in the tool enable a user to substantially match the appearance of the newly textured area, with the appearance of the existing adjacent textured surface.

Abstract: This invention discloses a decorative sheet having a hammer tone texture and the method used to obtain such hammer tone texture. A hammer tone composition is agitated, applied to a decorative sheet using a controlled means of delivery in a sufficient thickness, and then dried at a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient time to provide the hammer tone texture on the decorative sheet.

Abstract: A multiple nozzle coating apparatus and method which simultaneous propels a plurality of coating compositions in substantially overlapping coating patterns. The coating compositions are formulated with a viscosity and rheology control agent to have sufficient wet strength to stand alone and not flow or readily mix with itself when applied under non-atomizing conditions. A separate nozzle is provided for each of the viscous coating compositions configured to create overlapping coverage over the area coated. The separate coating nozzles are inclined toward a substantially overlapping coat pattern. The coating compositions and compressed air are delivered to the separate nozzles. Adjustable valves are provided for releasing coating compositions and the compressed air from each of the nozzles to simultaneously propel coating compositions away from each of the nozzles to form a coat pattern wherein the coating compositions remaining substantially separate after being propelling.

Abstract: A method for coating strip material by applying polymer resin having a high solids content to at least one face of strip material with a coating roll having a pattern of grooves in the surface of the roll and curing the polymer resin on said strip.

Abstract: A method of making an irregularly porous cloth includes a first process in which the woof threads of a cloth are so woven that the meshes of the cloth are irregular in shape. The cloth is then impregnated with a foaming material. The impregnated and foamed cloth is subsequently heated and rolled to form a shading cloth having irregular patterns and pores.

Abstract: A process of pre-finishing wood composite panels and/or structures having flat and contoured surfaces to result in a structure exhibiting the appearance of natural hard wood includes the steps of (1) providing a textured substrate; (2) applying a ground coat to the substrate; (3) applying a buffing glaze to the substrate; (4) selectively removing a portion of the buffing glaze from the substrate; and (5) applying a sealer to retain the remaining buffing glaze in textured ticks of the substrate.

Abstract: A novel system of marking substrates using pen devices containing pituitous colorants is described. Preferred applications for such marking devices are art and craft products made by children, students and novice or professional artists. The method of marking comprises dispensing a quantity of pituitous liquid color composition through an applicator device to a visible scene, and pulling the dispensed color composition into one or more strings. The drawn string can be maneuvered to mark the substrate in a novel and exciting way so as to produce a variety of markings including art and craft works. The deposited color composition dries at ambient conditions resulting in permanent or semi permanent art works.

Abstract: A metallized epoxy die formed by depositing boron nitride and iron oxide particle layers on the pattern used to form the die and spraying molten metal onto the particle layers followed by casting the epoxy against the exposed surface of the sprayed metal.

Abstract: A novel display panel (10) has a high fidelity visual pattern with a full range of grey scale values, for instance, a marble or leather pattern, which is produced via a novel methodology (20). In accordance with the novel methodology (20), a high resolution visual pattern (31) and a mask pattern (32) are produced and separately printed. The patterns (31, 32) are then superimposed and exposed to a camera (33) which generates an enlarged photograph positive. A silk screen is produced from the enlarged photograph positive and used to print a high fidelity visual pattern onto a glass substrate (13). The glass substrate (13) and visual pattern (14) are then heated in a tempering oven to derive the display panel (10).

Abstract: A corrosion resistant electrically conductive coating on steel anode studs used in the production of aluminum by electrolysis.

Abstract: A thick aesthetic laminate surface layer is achieved by using pre-cured particulates of the impregnating resin along with an initial binder material and preferably also abrasion resistant mineral particles. The protective overcoating may be applied in a thick layer to give gouge resistance and a deep look. Because the impregnating resin and the pre-cured particulates have the same index of refraction, the transparency of the coating and the resultant clarity of the underlying decor sheet are excellent.

Abstract: A distinctive method and apparatus for depositing a pattern of material, such as hot-melt adhesive, onto a substrate comprises a supplying mechanism for forming a first and at least a second substantially continuous stream of the selected material, and a gas-directing mechanism for forming a plurality of gas streams. The gas streams have selected velocities and are arranged to entrain the material streams to impart a swirling motion to each of the material streams as it moves toward the substrate. A transport mechanism moves the substrate relative to the supply mechanism along a selected machine direction. A regulating mechanism controls the supplying mechanism and gas-directing mechanism to direct the material stream in a selected path toward the substrate and deposit the material in adjacent semi-cycloidal patterns on the substrate while closely controlling a selected cross-directional positioning of one or more of the deposited patterns.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making banded smoking article wrappers is provided. The apparatus includes a cylindrical rotating applicator that has alternating regions of mesh material and regions of solid material on its outside surface. The applicator allows repetitive patterns of additional slurry to be applied to a continuous web of paper so that the basis weight of the paper is repetitively increased. Such paper, when incorporated into a smoking article, modifies the burn rate characteristics of the article.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the surface energy of a surface of an organic polymeric material, particularly polyolefins. The method is comprised of blending from about 99.5% to about 90.0% by weight of the polymeric material with from about 0.5% to about 10.0% by weight of an amphiphile having the formula:RA(CHR.sup.2 [CH.sub.2 ].sub.n A.sup.1).sub.m R.sup.1where R and R.sup.1 are selected from the group consisting of the alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, acyl and arylacyl derivatives of an aliphatic or aliphatic/aromatic mono-acid with a molecular weight of from about 200 to about 500 daltons, A and A.sup.1 are selected from the group consisting of O, and S, R.sup.2 is selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3 and C.sub.2 H.sub.5, n is from 0 to 3 and m is from 2 to 20.

Abstract: Variegated color and optimally textured effects are produced on substantially non-wicking surfaces by applying gel particles of at least two different colors formed from at least two alginate compositions, each containing a different color from the other and each having been mixed with a second composition containing a gelling agent to produce the particles.

Abstract: The method of the present invention begins with the unloading of the garments delivered by the customer. After unloading, the garments are sorted and counted and then placed on moveable racks for transportation to a separate storage area nearby. Selected garments are then moved from the storage area to a temporary receiving area near zones known as painting cells, where the garments are taken and hung from hooks attached to a variable speed electronically operated overhead track conveyor. The conveyor moves the garments along an oval shaped track pattern at a constant speed as paint is applied by workers stationed at various locations along the conveyor route. Various paint application methods are utilized during this stage of the operation, including the use of spray bottles and airbrushes.

Abstract: Method for production of artificial wood veneer, according to which sheets of natural wood, spot stained by burnings and/or coloring substances, are used to form a block of precomposed wood from which sheets of wood veneer are sliced presenting grains imitating briar veneers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process of preparing "one off effect" dyeings on paper or textile material comprising:passing (preferably drawing) the material continuously through an application zone containing a number of loosely-packed applicator elements, which elements contact and can apply treatment medium to the material in response to the motion of the material, the applicator elements being continuously or intermittently contacted with a treatment medium (preferably a solution containing a dyestuff or etching compound), whereby the "one off effect" is produced by the passage of the material under or through the elements, onto which the medium has been applied.

Abstract: A process for creating a work of art from a base medium, crayon and ink that comprises selecting a base medium that affords a surface to which crayon and ink can adhere, applying a crayon to the surface of said base medium, removing from the surface of said base medium any excess crumbs of crayon that failed to firmly adhere to the surface of said base medium, applying ink over the surface of the areas of crayon and the surface of the areas of the base medium that are free of crayon, removing substantially all the ink other than a thin film of ink from the surface of the areas of crayon and the surface of the areas of the base medium that are free of crayon before the ink is allowed to dry, allowing the thin film of ink to dry on the surface of the areas of crayon and the surface of the areas of base medium that are free of crayon, and rubbing the surface of the areas of crayon and the surface of the areas of the base medium that are free of crayon to remove a portion of the dried ink and produce a sheen to t

Abstract: A motor-vehicle steering wheel which is made of plastics material but looks like a wooden steering wheel is produced from a die having ribs such as to form in the moulded part indentations having a typical wood-grain pattern and arrangement. In the moulded part, the plastics material used for the moulding assumes a density of the same order of magnitude as that of a typical wooden steering wheel. A dark-colored ink is applied to the surface of the moulded part and penetrates the indentations to give them the wood-grain appearance, the ink subsequently being removed from the rest of the surface of the part and the part then undergoing a final varnishing step.

Abstract: A method of weathering a model of an object is described. The model to be weathered most desirably is a hobbyist model, such as used by model railroaders and military modelers, and it is rust that is simulated. A suspension of a rust-colored coloring agent is applied to the surface of the model within a carrier which is adapted to spread the same as flakes over the surface. The carrier is then removed by drying the model to leave the flakes. A second coloring agent of a different color is applied to the model over the dried flakes to enhance weathered appearance.

Abstract: A method of preparing a synthetic surface having a pattern simulating stone, marble and various other naturally occurring substances. The method involves preparing a resin matrix and combining such with a matrix veining pigment composition having a pigment component with a specific gravity heavier than that of the resin system and a blooming agent component with a specific gravity less than that of the resin system. The pigment component is allowed to disperse under the influence of the blooming agent to form the pattern. A further aspect of the present invention includes controlling the dispersement of the veining pigment within the resin matrix by controlling its thixotropic properties.

Abstract: A method of producing decorative lengths of shot chain involves pre-heating the chain, initally applying a primer coat, reheating the primed chain, then subjecting one side of the chain to the application of paint of one color, reheating the chain to set that application, applying a different color to the other side of the chain and then baking to anneal the paint. The chain is then clipped to desired lengths. The method may be practiced either continuously or step-by-step.