Decal transfer device

A printing device for accomplishing sublimation design transfers through the use of heat and pressure which includes a flexible transfer head comprising:

• a flexible heating pad structure adapted for deformation about a sublimation design accepting, curvilinear substrate to provide heat and pressure to a sublimation design during deformation, and
• heating pad deformation means, wherein said heating pad structure comprises a laminate structure which includes a thin flexible heated sheet and a pad support belt, said structure being disposed in a loop configuration formed between two spaced heating pad structure supports which are stationary during said deformation, wherein said heating pad deformation means comprises means for tightening said loop about said substrate, wherein the curvilinear substrate comprises a substantially cylindrically shaped substrate, while said stationary, spaced heating pad structure supports comprise support members spaced apart from each other at a distance less than the diameter of said cylindrically shaped substrate, and said structure covers more than 180 degrees of the cylindrically substrate's surface, and wherein means are provided for adjusting the size of the loop prior to tightening said tightening means about said cylindrically shaped substrate.