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US 4,233,343 AGranted
Three-dimensional decorative surface
AssigneeJ. J. Barker Company Limited
InventorsJohn C. Barker, Ivan P. McLaughlin
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Abstract
Decorative articles having a three-dimensional patterned surface are formed employing the different surface tension properties of a wet ink printed pattern and a liquid top coat composition; the difference in surface tension is such that the liquid top coat composition retracts from the wet ink pattern; subsequently the ink is dried and the top coat is dried and cured.
Claims12
A method of producing an article having a three-dimensional patterned surface comprising:
- coating a flat surface of a substrate with a coloured printable base;
- printing on said printable base a pattern composed of lines of a wet ink composition free of silicone oil;
- applying to said printable base, over the pattern of wet ink lines, a liquid top coat composition of a resinous film forming material in a volatile organic solvent;
- said wet ink composition and said liquid top coat composition having differing surface tension properties such that said liquid top coat composition will retract from said wet ink lines;
- allowing said liquid top coat composition to retract from the wet ink lines to form ridges of the liquid top coat composition adjacent the wet ink lines, and subsequently;
- drying and baking the substrate to dry said ink lines and fix said liquid material as a hard resinous top coat defining a contour of valleys, hills and plains, said top coat remaining on the printed pattern in a thickness less than 1 mil.
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