Plastic plate with graphics
OwnerJames C. Kanzelbergerinventor
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Abstract
A do-it-yourself kit enables an end user to make his own graphics. A printer points graphics on the back of a transparent mylar tape. The tape has a pressure sensitive adhesive which is pressed on over a textured surface that enables air to escape at the interface between the adhesive and the plate.
Claims9
A graphic display, comprising a metal backing plate of a predetermined size;
- a plastic plate having a metalized surface for mounting centrally on said metal plate, said metal plate and said metalized surface having virtually the same appearance whereby said plastic plate and metal plate look like a single member when joined, a textured area on said metalized surface of said plastic plate;
- transparent tape having at least customized graphics printed on its rear side, said textured area having a shape and size adapted to receive said transparent tape;
- and adhesive means on the backs of said plastic plate and said transparent tape for assembling said graphics display;
- said texture including debossments which are deep enough to allow air to escape through said debossments of said texture as said transparent tape is being pressed into intimate contact over said textured surface on said plastic plate, the debossments of said texture preventing an entrapment of air bubbles under said transparent tape when it is adhered to said textured surface by allowing the air of the bubbles to escape through the debossments.
A do-it-yourself name plate comprising a debossable plastic plate having a thermoplastic plate covered by a thin film of material having a heat insulating quality that plays no part in spreading heat during a debossment process, an area debossed into an upper surface of said thermoplastic plate to form a textured surface, said thin film covering said thermoplastic plate following said debossment, a transparent plastic film with graphics on its underside, and means on the underside of both said plastic film and said graphics for adhering said transparent film over said textured surface, said debossed depressions forming textured surface passageways which enable air to escape from said textured surface as said transparent film is pressed down into intimate contact upon said debossed area in said thermoplastic plate, air escaping from between said transparent film and said plastic plate via the air passage ways provided by the debossed texture of said surface when said transparent film is adhered thereto, said texture preventing an entrapment of air bubbles under said transparent tape when it is adhered to said textured surface by allowing the air in the bubbles to escape through the dobossments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.