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US 6,210,512 B1Granted
Embossing of laminated picture frame molding
AssigneeIntercraft Company
InventorJoseph W. Jones
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Abstract
Molding, such as that used in the manufacture of picture frames, is laminated with a covering wrap of foil, paper, plastic, cloth, or wood veneer and is embossed on the same machine shortly thereafter. The covering wrap is adhered by an adhesive and the embossed pattern is formed in part by pressure of a pattern against the substrate and through the covering wrap and partly by forcing of the adhesive used in the laminating process into various raised portions of the pattern, thus supporting and enhancing the embossed profile.
Claims11
A process for preparing an embossed, laminated picture frame molding comprising the steps of:
- providing an elongate, picture frame molding substrate having a desired cross-sectional profile;
- laminating a wrap about at least a portion of the profile of the substrate using a coating consisting essentially of a liquid adhesive, the wrap having paper as a maior component;
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- embossing a pattern on at least a portion of the laminated portion of the substrate while the liquid adhesive remains in a liquid condition to cause the liquid adhesive to move into raised portions of the embossed pattern to support and enhance the embossed pattern.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.