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US 3,967,026 AGranted
Camouflage sheet and method for manufacturing the same
AssigneeBarracudaverken Aktiebolag
InventorGunnar Dalblom
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AssigneeBarracudaverken Aktiebolag
InventorGunnar Dalblom
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When manufacturing camouflage sheets of substantial size, the camouflage pattern is normally printed or punched in repetitive consecutive steps so that a pattern repeat may be seen and impairs the camouflaging effect. The invention makes it possible to considerably increase the pattern repeat, i.e., the distance after which the pattern repeats itself on the sheet without increasing the size of the pattern, in that the sheet and the tool such as a printing plate are angularly displaced relative to one another in their own plane so that the pattern is repeated a number of times on the sheet such that adjacent areas of pattern are angularly displaced (turned) relative to one another. Thus, the pattern of each such area is in another angular position than the identical preceding pattern and the identical subsequent pattern.
A method of manufacturing a camouflage sheet bearing an overall camouflage pattern composed of a plurality of contiguous component patterns having the general outline of a 3-, 4-, 6-, or 8-sided figure and each coextensive with a respective zone of the sheet, wherein the individual component patterns present the same irregular pattern features and the overall pattern is built up by separately applying the pattern features to the respective zones of the sheet and arranging for the pattern features of at least the majority of adjacent pairs of component patterns to be angularly offset relatively to one another by at least 45.degree. and at most 315.degree..
A camouflage sheet or slab whose pattern is permanently composed of several individual pattern elements having the same irregular pattern features:
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