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US 4,356,617 AGranted
Decorative emblems and method for making same
AssigneeThe D. L. Auld Company
InventorCharles M. Coscia
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Abstract
A method of casting decorative emblems is disclosed wherein a fluent, viscous, plastic material is dispensed by a means having a plurality of dispenser orifices onto a foil substrate typically lithographed or screen printed with an array of designs. The cast plastic melds together and forms a meniscus which, when hardened, gives a lens effect to the foil shape. The process is well adapted for automated, mass production of foil backed emblems.
Claims12
A method for producing decorative emblem inserts having a thin lens cap over an indicia-bearing foil shape, comprising:
- (a) providing a series of foil shapes, each shape having an indicia-bearing upper surface, a bottom surface, and sharply defined peripheral edges around the area over which said lens cap is to be formed and said bottom surface carrying an adhesive,
- (b) holding said foil shapes flat and horizontal on a supported surface,
- (c) depositing individual measured amounts of clear viscous fluent plastic onto each of said foil shapes on said indicia-bearing top surface from a plurality of closely spaced orifices overlying essentially the entire surface of said foil shape so that the plastic deposits from said orifices meld together and flow to said sharply defined peripheral edges of said foil shape and form a positive meniscus, and
- (d) curing said plastic while maintaining said substrate flat and horizontal, whereby said cured plastic forms a thin lens cap over each foil shape which gives a lens effect to said indicia-bearing top surface.
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