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US 2001/0033918 A1Published application
Methods for making decorative overlays, foils and decorative moldings
OwnerHerbert M. Straub, Martin D. Straubinventors
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A decorative molding wrapping foil is derived from a decoration having features specific to a substrate to be decorated. The image of the decoration having features specific to the substrate is first stored as a digital image in a portable image format and thereafter imported into an electronic graphics reader, duplicated at least once thereby creating at least one duplicate image. A portion of one of the duplicate images is laid over the image in one transition zone thereof and a like portion of the image is laid over the duplicate image in a like transition zone thereof thereby creating a continuously repeating image in a ring like manner. The continuously repeating image is imported into a single-pass, multi-color electrostatographic duplex printer where the repeating image is printed upon a wrapping foil for use in foil wrapping of a substrate for use as picture frame element or building trim piece.
A method of making a decorative molding wrapping foil comprises the steps of creating an image of a decoration having features specific to a substrate to be decorated, storing said image as a digital image in a portable image format, importing said digital image into an electronic graphics reader, duplicating said image thereby creating a duplicate image, overlaying a portion of said duplicate image over said image in one transition zone thereof and overlaying a like portion of said image over said duplicate image in a like transition zone thereof thereby creating a continuously repeating image, importing said repeating image into a printing process, printing said repeating image upon a wrapping foil and wrapping said wrapping foil upon a roll for use in foil wrapping of a substrate for use as picture frame element or building trim piece.
A method of creating an image of a decoration having features specific to a substrate to be decorated, said image derived from a previously manufactured wrapping foil, said previously manufactured wrapping foil comprising at least one hot transfer inked foil carried on a carrier, said at least one said hot transfer inked foil laminated onto a planar wrapping foil thereby creating a laminated wrapping foil, said laminated wrapping foil having an adhesive applied to a side of said layered wrapping foil opposite said hot transfer foil, said laminated wrapping foil wrapped about a substrate to be decorated such as a picture frame element or building trim piece, wherein said laminated wrapping foil and said substrate are heated sufficiently to effect removal of said laminated wrapping foil from said substrate, said laminated wrapping foil being removed from said substrate, said laminated wrapping foil thereafter substantially flattened into said decoration having said features specific to said substrate.
A decorative molding wrapping foil derived from a decoration having features specific to a substrate to be decorated comprises an image of said decoration having said features specific to said substrate stored as a digital image in a portable image format, wherein said digital image is imported into an electronic graphics reader, said digital image thereafter duplicated at least once thereby creating at least one duplicate image, overlaying a portion of one of said duplicate images over said digital image in one transition zone thereof, overlaying a like portion of said digital image over said duplicate image in a like transition zone thereof thereby creating a continuously repeating image, importing said repeating image in a single-pass, multi-color electrostatographic duplex printer, printing said repeating image upon a wrapping foil and wrapping said wrapping foil upon a roll for use in foil wrapping of a substrate for use as picture frame element or building trim piece.
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