Fabric printing method for producing sparkling fabric
AssigneeHasbro, Inc.
InventorsMan Kuen Cheung, Nga Man Chang, Sze Wing Ling
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Abstract
A sparkling fabric includes: a fabric substrate; and a tri-layer adhered to the fabric substrate. The tri-layer includes: an adhesive layer that adheres the tri-layer to the fabric substrate; an exposed design layer; and a metal plating layer between the exposed design layer and the adhesive layer. The tri-layer is distributed as a plurality of separable and identifiable tri-layer pieces across the fabric substrate such that the distribution of tri-layer pieces has a density on the order of 15-25 pieces per centimeter squared (pcs/cm2) and a size of a piece is less than 1 millimeter (mm).
Claims18
A fabric printing method comprising:
- applying adhesive to a multi-layer sparkling foil paper to form an adhesive base paper, wherein applying the adhesive to the multi-layer sparkling foil paper comprises distributing the adhesive as a plurality of separable and identifiable adhesive pieces over an outer layer of the multi-layer sparkling foil paper such that the distribution of pieces has a density on the order of 15-25 pieces per centimeter squared (pcs/cm2) and a size of a piece is less than 1 millimeter (mm);
- pressing the adhesive base paper to a fabric to form a fabric laminate, wherein pressing the adhesive base paper to the fabric comprises contacting the side of the adhesive base paper to which the adhesive has been applied with the fabric while maintaining the temperature of the adhesive above a melting point of the adhesive;
- cooling the fabric laminate until the adhesive dries;
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- removing a cover layer of the multi-layer sparkling foil paper from the fabric of the fabric laminate such that the distribution of adhesive and the outer layer of the multi-layer sparkling foil paper to which adhesive has been applied remain attached to the fabric in accordance with the adhesive distribution to thereby form a sparkling fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.