GB1150153A - Dry Strip Decalcomania or Transfer - Google Patents

Abstract

1,150,153. Transfers; transferring designs. MEYERCORD CO. 11 Aug., 1966, No. 36074/66. Heading B6C. A decalcomania comprises a pair of superimposed indicia carrying, 12, Fig. 1, and backing sheets, 17, Fig. 3, with a layer of pressuresensitive adhesive material 16 therebetween, and indicia 13 at the outermost side of sheet 12, backing sheet 17 being readily strippable from the adhesive 16, there being die cuts for separating the indicia area of the decalcomania from surrounding waste material, the cuts extending fully through the backing sheet and entirely around the periphery of the indicia, and also extending fully through the indicia carrying sheet and around the periphery of the indicia except for a plurality of uncut connecting portions 22 spaced around the periphery of the indicia for disruptably connecting the indicia portion of sheet 12 to the surrounding waste material. Sheet 12 may be an organic plastics material, e.g. polyvinyl chloride or polyester, and the indicia may be an imprinted letter or numeral. The indicia are affixed to a surface by removing the indicia portion 25, of the backing sheet, pressing the exposed adhesive 16 against the surface and then removing the laminated waste material 14, 27. The connecting portions 22 may be V-shaped in cross-section with the apex of the V disposed toward the backing sheet. The decalcomania may be produced by impressing die cuts in the laminate 12, 16, 17 from the backing sheet side using a die having the same shape as the bounding edges 15 of the indicia 13, the die being provided with a plurality of V-shaped recesses in its elongated cutting edges of a depth equal to the thickness of indicia carrying sheet 12. The uninterrupted lengths of cutting edge cut through backing sheet 17, adhesive 16 and indicia carrying sheet 12, and the recessed areas cut through the sheet 17 but not through indicia carrying sheet 12.