US 5,735,994 AGranted

Film printing device

OwnerKurt Lappe, Fred Oudtinventors

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Abstract

In a film printing method for printing a print design on a substrate areas of a surface of a substrate to be provided with a print design is coated in a first step with an adhesive layer. The transfer film for the printing method includes a support film having a separating layer connected thereto and a transfer layer connected to the separating layer. At a first pressure the transfer film with the transfer layer facing the adhesive layer is printed onto the substrate so that the transfer layer adheres to the adhesive layer of the substrate. The support film together with the separating layer is removed from the transfer layer adhering to the substrate. In a final step, the transfer layer adhering to the adhesive layer on the substrate is subjected to a second pressure that is substantially greater than the first pressure.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A transfer film printing device for transferring a print design from a transfer film to a substrate, said device consisting of:

a device for applying an adhesive layer to a substrate, said device for applying an adhesive layer comprising an applicator;
a supply device for a transfer film for supplying the transfer film, comprising a support film and a transfer layer, to the substrate;
a printing mechanism having a printing surface and a first counter surface defining a printing slot for simultaneously guiding the substrate to be provided with a print design and the transfer film through said printing slot for transferring at least a portion of the transfer layer as a print design from the transfer film to the substrate;
a removing device for removing the support film of the transfer film together with non-transferred transfer layer from the substrate after leaving said printing mechanism;
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a pressing device, positioned downstream of said printing mechanism and said removing device, having a pressing surface and a second counter surface defining a pressing slot for guiding the substrate with the transferred print design of the transfer layer therethrough.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/680,910Filed 12 Jul 1996 · continuation
Priority: DE 41 10 801.94 Apr 1991
Granted: 7 Apr 1998
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B41F 16/002
For printing from an inked or preprinted foil or band: presses of the rotary type
B41F 17/00
Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not
B41F 16/0033
Presses of the rotary type: with means for applying print under pressure only, e.g. using pressure sensitive adhesive
B41F 19/062
Printing and embossing between a negative and a positive forme after inking and wiping the negative forme; Printing from an ink band treated…