Rapid powder pressing plate assembly and process
AssigneeACME Cosmetic Components LLC
InventorMichael W. ROUGHTON
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Abstract
A powder pressing plate assembly includes a pressing plate having a plurality of pressing tools and at least one etched plate attached to a pressing tool face of at least one of the plurality of pressing tools. The etched plate includes a design that may be embossed into a substrate. The design may be computer generated and then transferred to the etched plate via a solvent-less thermal exposure process, exposure to certain solvents used to wash away unwanted material, or built up using a three-dimensional printing or additive manufacturing process.
Claims20
A method of embossing a design on a substrate, the method comprising:
- creating a design;
- transferring the design to at least one etched plate;
- attaching the at least one etched plate to a pressing tool;
- and
- pressing the at least one etched plate into the substrate to thereby impart the design to the substrate.
A method of using a pressing plate assembly to emboss a substrate, comprising:
- electronically creating a design;
- creating a plurality of etched plates each having a bottom face with the design arranged thereon, wherein the plurality of etched plates are created as a unitary sheet of unseparated etched plates;
- attaching the plurality of etched plates to a corresponding pressing tool of the pressing plate assembly;
- and
- embossing the design on the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.