CA1082918A - Producing pokerwork designs on wood substrates - Google Patents
Producing pokerwork designs on wood substratesInfo
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- CA1082918A CA1082918A CA290,609A CA290609A CA1082918A CA 1082918 A CA1082918 A CA 1082918A CA 290609 A CA290609 A CA 290609A CA 1082918 A CA1082918 A CA 1082918A
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- Prior art keywords
- veneer
- pokerwork
- wood
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- platen
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
- B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
- B44C3/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
- B44C3/08—Stamping or bending
- B44C3/085—Stamping or bending stamping
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
- B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
- B44C1/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects
- B44C1/02—Pyrography
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
- B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
- B44C5/00—Processes for producing special ornamental bodies
- B44C5/04—Ornamental plaques, e.g. decorative panels, decorative veneers
- B44C5/043—Ornamental plaques, e.g. decorative panels, decorative veneers containing wooden elements
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- Laminated Bodies (AREA)
Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
Improved pokerwork type designs on wood veneers are obtained by laminating the veneer to a thin paper, fabric or foil substrate, and applying the design by means of a heated printing plate interacting with a cooled platen of highly heat conductive metal.
Improved pokerwork type designs on wood veneers are obtained by laminating the veneer to a thin paper, fabric or foil substrate, and applying the design by means of a heated printing plate interacting with a cooled platen of highly heat conductive metal.
Description
1()~25~18 , This invention relateQ to the production of pokerwork designs on thin wood substrate~, ,, It is known to produce pokerwork designs on thin wooden substrates, for example rectangle~ of wood veneer of postcard size, by burning in the de~ign in a printing press using a heated printing plate. The re~ulting product~ have not been altogether satisfactory, The wooden ~ubstrate must be relatively thick, compared for example to a normal po~tcard, in order both to prevent the design from burning through, and to prevent ink from writing or printing on the back of the card from penetrating through to the design. Fine detail cannot be reproduced properly, and the resulting product is very easily split or broken and is hardly strong enough to withstand normal postal handling.
Wo have now found a means of producing such designs which can overcome these problems, producing a thinner, stronger product on which highly detailed designs can be properly reproduced and which i8 better adapted for corre~pondence purposes when produced as a postcard.
According to the invention, a method of producing a pokerwork design upon a wood veneer comprises laminating one surface of the veneer onto a thin substrate of paper, fabric or foil, and impressing the other surface of the veneer with a desired design in a press having a printing plate mounted on and in clo~e thcrmal contact with a bed of substantial thermal capacity heated to a temperature above the carbonization temperature of the wood, whereby the design on the plate is burnt onto the veneer, and a cold platen of high thermal conductivity.
Although at low rates of production it may be possible for heat - 1 - 3~, to dissipate from the platen sufficiently rapidly to prevent its temperature from rising substantially, some form of forced cooling, for example by water circulation, will be required at higher rates of production. The highly conductive cold platen prevents the temperature of the substrate and the under surface of the veneer from rising substantially during the printing step and thus prevents the design on the printing plate from burning through the laminate and limits the depth to which it is burnt into the wood: in addition, there is less lateral spreading of the burning effect, thus preserving detail in the denser parts of the design, and detail in the less dense portions of the design can be adequately burnt in without danger of over-burning the denser portions. These improvements make it possible to obtain a much wider range of tonal gradation and considerably finer detail than was hitherto possible.
It i8 also found that the substrate, quite apart from strengthening the veneer and increasing its resistance to splitting, can provide the product with the unusual property that, even if it does become crea~ed so as to split the veneer layer, the crea~e remains almost or completely invisible for 80 long as the card is flat. This is in contrast to conventional picture postcards, in which creasing tends to cause serious disfigurement of the pictorial matter.
The invention also extends to pokerwork prints such as are produced by the method of the invention.
The invention is described further with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 i~ a diagrammatic side elevation of the relevant parts of a simple form of flat-bed press suitable for implementing :~.
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the method of the invention, Figure 2 is a diagram illustrating a simple form of rotary press for the same purpose, and Figure 3 i~ a greatly enlarged section of part of a pokerwork print produced by the method of the invention.
Referring to Figure 1, the press shown comprises a platen 2 vertically reciprocable by a ram 4, and a bed 6 on which a printing plate 8 is supported in thermal contact.
~ he bed is supported in blocks 10 on a base 12, and beneath the bed is a heating unit 14. This may conveniently be an electrical heating element, but a gas fired or other form of heater could be used provided that it is capable of raising the be~ to a uniform temperature such that the surface of the printing plate 8 i8 above the carbonization temperature of the wood to b- printed; a suitable temperature will generally be in the range 700-8000F and should be closely controlled to ensure uniform results. Moreover, the bed should have sufficient thickness and thermal capacity to en~ure that the printing plate is uniformly heated: a heavy steel or cast iron bed is suitable.
The printing plate may be of any material having adequate strength and wear resistance at the high te~peratures employed - obviously low melting point type metals are unsuitable, but steel, which ; may be plated in known manner to increase its wear resistance, , .
is a suitable material. The plates may be prepared using any ~- known method for producing printing blocks that will withstand the necessary temperatures. The be~t results will generally be achieved using blocks which are duplicated in relief from wood-cuts or engravings.
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The platen 2 may be of cast aluminum so as to provide high heat conductivity, and in order to ensure that it remains cool, water may be circulated through pa~sages in the platen by means of hoses 16. The platen could be of copper, which would be more expensive, but metals of substantially lower heat conductivity than aluminum may not be able to absorb heat sufficiently rapidly, The platen also carries guides 18 at its opposite edges through which passes a continuous strip 20 of wood laminated to a non-woven fabric backing. After each lowering of the platen again~t the plate 8, the strip is indexed forward by means not shown in order to bring a fresh portion of the strip beneath the platen, The platen is lowered against the printing plate by the ram 4 for just long enough for the design appearing in relief on the plate to be burned into the wood layer of the strip which i8 no more than a second or two:
during this burning process, the backing and the lower portion of the wood are protected against burning by the cooling effect of the platen 2, The printed strip may either be guillotined into separate print~ or maintained as a roll, for use for example as a wall covering. The guides 18 ensure that the strip is lifted away from the printing plate after each impression, Figure 2 illustrates how a ~imilar method can be carried out in a rotary press. Here the platen is in the form of a . . , ~' water cooled cylinder 22 and the printing plate 24 is mounted on an impression cylinder 26 incorporating a heating element 28.
The cylinders 22 and 26 are rotated at a speed low enough relative to the temperature of the roller 26 to en~ure the required .
impres~ion being burned into the strip 20, The ~trip 20 is shown in more detail in Figure 3.
' - 4 -lVg32918 It consists of a layer 30 of wood veneer bonded to a substrate 32 of paper or other non woven fabric, woven fabric or synthetic plastic or metal foil, either by the use of adhe~ive or by direct bonding if the material of the substrate is thermoplastic.
A suitable material is sold under the trade mark Flexwood and comprises a very thin wood veneer adhe~ively bonded to a tough, thin paper substrate. With such a material, the paper layer may be printed with markings appropriate for postcaras or the like, and also provides a sati~factory writing Rurface.
The paper may be translucent so that the appearance of wood is preserved to some extent even on the rear of the card. The design burnt into the strip 20 by the printing plate is formed by depression~ 34 in the free surface of the veneer, these indentations being surrounded by a layer 36 of partially carbonized wood.
Both the substrate layer and the wood layer may be very thin, thus producing a product which is thinner than known wood veneer postcards, and no thicker than a conventional postcard.
Indeed, the thinness of the layers is an advantage, ~ince the cooling of the strip from the rear then provide~ very clo~e control of the carbonization of the wood by the printing plate, preventing spreading and enabling fine detail to be achieved, and limiting the depth in the wood to which carbonization can extend. The ~ubstrate ~hould be thin enough, relative to its thenmal conductivity and the thickness and thermal conductivity of the wood, to enable heat to pas~ through it from the wood to the platen sufficiently fast that at least a ~ignificant portion of the thickness of the wood is always maintained below its carbonization temperature.
Wo have now found a means of producing such designs which can overcome these problems, producing a thinner, stronger product on which highly detailed designs can be properly reproduced and which i8 better adapted for corre~pondence purposes when produced as a postcard.
According to the invention, a method of producing a pokerwork design upon a wood veneer comprises laminating one surface of the veneer onto a thin substrate of paper, fabric or foil, and impressing the other surface of the veneer with a desired design in a press having a printing plate mounted on and in clo~e thcrmal contact with a bed of substantial thermal capacity heated to a temperature above the carbonization temperature of the wood, whereby the design on the plate is burnt onto the veneer, and a cold platen of high thermal conductivity.
Although at low rates of production it may be possible for heat - 1 - 3~, to dissipate from the platen sufficiently rapidly to prevent its temperature from rising substantially, some form of forced cooling, for example by water circulation, will be required at higher rates of production. The highly conductive cold platen prevents the temperature of the substrate and the under surface of the veneer from rising substantially during the printing step and thus prevents the design on the printing plate from burning through the laminate and limits the depth to which it is burnt into the wood: in addition, there is less lateral spreading of the burning effect, thus preserving detail in the denser parts of the design, and detail in the less dense portions of the design can be adequately burnt in without danger of over-burning the denser portions. These improvements make it possible to obtain a much wider range of tonal gradation and considerably finer detail than was hitherto possible.
It i8 also found that the substrate, quite apart from strengthening the veneer and increasing its resistance to splitting, can provide the product with the unusual property that, even if it does become crea~ed so as to split the veneer layer, the crea~e remains almost or completely invisible for 80 long as the card is flat. This is in contrast to conventional picture postcards, in which creasing tends to cause serious disfigurement of the pictorial matter.
The invention also extends to pokerwork prints such as are produced by the method of the invention.
The invention is described further with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 i~ a diagrammatic side elevation of the relevant parts of a simple form of flat-bed press suitable for implementing :~.
j - 2 -,.
the method of the invention, Figure 2 is a diagram illustrating a simple form of rotary press for the same purpose, and Figure 3 i~ a greatly enlarged section of part of a pokerwork print produced by the method of the invention.
Referring to Figure 1, the press shown comprises a platen 2 vertically reciprocable by a ram 4, and a bed 6 on which a printing plate 8 is supported in thermal contact.
~ he bed is supported in blocks 10 on a base 12, and beneath the bed is a heating unit 14. This may conveniently be an electrical heating element, but a gas fired or other form of heater could be used provided that it is capable of raising the be~ to a uniform temperature such that the surface of the printing plate 8 i8 above the carbonization temperature of the wood to b- printed; a suitable temperature will generally be in the range 700-8000F and should be closely controlled to ensure uniform results. Moreover, the bed should have sufficient thickness and thermal capacity to en~ure that the printing plate is uniformly heated: a heavy steel or cast iron bed is suitable.
The printing plate may be of any material having adequate strength and wear resistance at the high te~peratures employed - obviously low melting point type metals are unsuitable, but steel, which ; may be plated in known manner to increase its wear resistance, , .
is a suitable material. The plates may be prepared using any ~- known method for producing printing blocks that will withstand the necessary temperatures. The be~t results will generally be achieved using blocks which are duplicated in relief from wood-cuts or engravings.
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The platen 2 may be of cast aluminum so as to provide high heat conductivity, and in order to ensure that it remains cool, water may be circulated through pa~sages in the platen by means of hoses 16. The platen could be of copper, which would be more expensive, but metals of substantially lower heat conductivity than aluminum may not be able to absorb heat sufficiently rapidly, The platen also carries guides 18 at its opposite edges through which passes a continuous strip 20 of wood laminated to a non-woven fabric backing. After each lowering of the platen again~t the plate 8, the strip is indexed forward by means not shown in order to bring a fresh portion of the strip beneath the platen, The platen is lowered against the printing plate by the ram 4 for just long enough for the design appearing in relief on the plate to be burned into the wood layer of the strip which i8 no more than a second or two:
during this burning process, the backing and the lower portion of the wood are protected against burning by the cooling effect of the platen 2, The printed strip may either be guillotined into separate print~ or maintained as a roll, for use for example as a wall covering. The guides 18 ensure that the strip is lifted away from the printing plate after each impression, Figure 2 illustrates how a ~imilar method can be carried out in a rotary press. Here the platen is in the form of a . . , ~' water cooled cylinder 22 and the printing plate 24 is mounted on an impression cylinder 26 incorporating a heating element 28.
The cylinders 22 and 26 are rotated at a speed low enough relative to the temperature of the roller 26 to en~ure the required .
impres~ion being burned into the strip 20, The ~trip 20 is shown in more detail in Figure 3.
' - 4 -lVg32918 It consists of a layer 30 of wood veneer bonded to a substrate 32 of paper or other non woven fabric, woven fabric or synthetic plastic or metal foil, either by the use of adhe~ive or by direct bonding if the material of the substrate is thermoplastic.
A suitable material is sold under the trade mark Flexwood and comprises a very thin wood veneer adhe~ively bonded to a tough, thin paper substrate. With such a material, the paper layer may be printed with markings appropriate for postcaras or the like, and also provides a sati~factory writing Rurface.
The paper may be translucent so that the appearance of wood is preserved to some extent even on the rear of the card. The design burnt into the strip 20 by the printing plate is formed by depression~ 34 in the free surface of the veneer, these indentations being surrounded by a layer 36 of partially carbonized wood.
Both the substrate layer and the wood layer may be very thin, thus producing a product which is thinner than known wood veneer postcards, and no thicker than a conventional postcard.
Indeed, the thinness of the layers is an advantage, ~ince the cooling of the strip from the rear then provide~ very clo~e control of the carbonization of the wood by the printing plate, preventing spreading and enabling fine detail to be achieved, and limiting the depth in the wood to which carbonization can extend. The ~ubstrate ~hould be thin enough, relative to its thenmal conductivity and the thickness and thermal conductivity of the wood, to enable heat to pas~ through it from the wood to the platen sufficiently fast that at least a ~ignificant portion of the thickness of the wood is always maintained below its carbonization temperature.
Claims (7)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A method of producing a pokerwork design upon a wood veneer comprises laminating one surface of the veneer onto a thin substrate of paper, fabric or foil, and impressing the other surface of the veneer with a desired design in a press having a printing plate mounted on and in close thermal contact with a bed of substantial thermal capacity heated to a temperature above the carbonization temperature of the wood, whereby the design on the plate is burnt onto the veneer, and a cold platen of high thermal conductivity.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the platen is water cooled.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the printing plate is maintained at 700-800°F.
4. A method according to claim 1 wherein both the bed and the platen are rotating cylinders.
5. A pokerwork print comprising a wood veneer having one surface locally carbonized to form a pokerwork design and its other surface bonded to a thin substrate of paper, fabric or foil.
6. A print according to claim 5, wherein the substrate is paper printed so that the print forms a postcard.
7. A print according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the substrate is translucent.
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| CA290,609A CA1082918A (en) | 1977-11-10 | 1977-11-10 | Producing pokerwork designs on wood substrates |
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| CA290,609A CA1082918A (en) | 1977-11-10 | 1977-11-10 | Producing pokerwork designs on wood substrates |
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