US3770535A - Method of making decorative articles - Google Patents

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US3770535A
US3770535A US00230367A US3770535DA US3770535A US 3770535 A US3770535 A US 3770535A US 00230367 A US00230367 A US 00230367A US 3770535D A US3770535D A US 3770535DA US 3770535 A US3770535 A US 3770535A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F1/00—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects
    • B44F1/02—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects produced by reflected light, e.g. matt surfaces, lustrous surfaces
    • B44F1/04—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects produced by reflected light, e.g. matt surfaces, lustrous surfaces after passage through surface layers, e.g. pictures with mirrors on the back
    • 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
    • B44C3/12—Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/23907—Pile or nap type surface or component
    • Y10T428/23943—Flock surface
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/23907—Pile or nap type surface or component
    • Y10T428/23986—With coating, impregnation, or bond
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/24—Structurally defined web or sheet [e.g., overall dimension, etc.]
    • Y10T428/24802—Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]

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  • a kit for making a decorative article includes a base; colored strips of material, each strip having a unidirectionally grained surface; a flock container; and a pair of tweezers.
  • the base includes designated sections forming a design and a translucent pressure sensitive adhesive over the surface having the designated sections.
  • the colored strips include designated diecut sections, the designations being correlated with the designations of the design sections.
  • the die-cut sections are removed and placed against the adhesive covering their corresponding design sections on the base.
  • the die-cut sections on the strip are oriented such that when they are fixed to the base their grains will be at different angles to one another.
  • the flock container is used to sprinkle flock over the exposed adhesive, thereby providing a flocculent surface which gives the applied sections an inlaid look.
  • This invention relates to a method of making decorative articles,.and more particularly to making articles which are composites of a plurality individual decorative pieces of material.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the components furnished to carry out the method, namely, a base, die-cut sheets of material, a pair of tweezers, and a flock container;
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the removal of a die-cut section from a sheet of material
  • FIG. 3 is a side view showing the tweezers being used to guide a die-cut section onto a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating on the base;
  • FIG. 4 is a side view showing the application of flock to the adhesive on the base.
  • FIGS is a front view of an article resulting from the method of the present invention.
  • a decorative article may be made, according to the invention, with the materials shown in FIG. 1. These include a base sheets of material 11, 12, and 13, sheet 11 having die-cut sections 60 to 65, sheet 12 having die-cut sections 71 to 73, and sheet 13 having diecut sections 66 to 70; a flock container 14; and a pair of tweezers 15.
  • the base 10 may be a sheet of flexible or rigid material.
  • one surface of the base 161 includes a printed design 17, the design 17 having sections 18 to 31 identified by indicia 32 to 44.
  • Each indicium corresponds to one of the sections 18 to 31 for indicating to the person making the decorative article, as more fully described below, which of the diecut sections 60 to 73 of material should be used to cover the design sections 18 to 31.
  • the design sections 18 to 31 may be covered, as in this example, by providing the surface of the base bearing the design 17 with a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive 16 (see FIGS.
  • a transparent adhesive 16 is desired so as not to obscure the design 17 on the base 10.
  • the adhesive 16 may be covered with a protective layer of material (not shown) which is readily peelable from it.
  • the sheets of material 1 l, 12, and 13 are of the nature of decorative ribbon such as is commonly used to tie gift packages.
  • the characteristics of this material which are important from the point of view of the invention are its satin-like appearance, which reflects light, and the unidirectional grain of its surface, which causes the surface to reflect more light in some directions than in others. This grain is indicated by the straight parallel lines 21 in FIGS. 1 and 5.
  • the material may be described as having an anisotropic light-reflecting surface. If ribbon material is used, it has been found convenient, for ease of handling, to laminate it to a sheet of stiff paper or cardboard before die-cutting. As a result, each section 6073 remains flat and is easy to handle.
  • each of the die-cut sections 60 to 73 there is associated with each of the die-cut sections 60 to 73 a unique indicium which corresponds to an indicium associated with only one of the design sections 33 to 44 on the base 10.
  • the diecut section 65 on the sheet 11 and the design section 24 on the base 10 are associated with the indicium A6 (identified by reference numerals 40 and 51 in FIG. 1).
  • the indicia 46 to 59 associated with the die-cut sections 60 to 73 and the corresponding indicia 32 to 44 which are associated with the design sections 18 to 31, serve to indicate to the person making the decorative article where the die-cut sections 60 to 73 belong on the base 10.
  • the indicia 32 to 44 are shown adjacent to sections 60 to 73, they may instead be printed on the rear face of these sections, i.e., the face which will be adhesively secured to base 10.
  • the die-cut sections 60 to 73 on the sheets of material 11, 12, and 13 are arranged with respect to the grain 21 of the ribbon so that when the die-cut sections 60 to 73 are fixed to the adhesive 16 on the base 10, the grains 2]. of some or all of the sections will be oriented in different directions. (see FIG. 5).
  • the sheets of material 11, 12, and 13 may each be of a different color.
  • each of the applied die-cut sections 60 to 73 will reflect light to an observer in an amount which is dependent upon the orientation of its grain.
  • the composite article tends to shimmer and present a very pleasing appearance.
  • individual sections 60-73 cut from the same sheet 11, 112, or 13, and hence obviously being of the same color appear to be of different shades of color because of their different orientations and hence difierent light-reflective character with respect to the observer.
  • a flock 75 (see FIG. 4) may be sprinkled by means of the flock container 14, over the entire surface of base 10.
  • the flock is pressed against the board with the fingers, or if desired with a suitable roller, and then all excess flock is brushed off the base.
  • the flock sticks only to the uncovered portions of adhesive 16, i.e., the portions not covered by sections 60 to 73, and is readily brushed off the sections 60 to 73, providing the previously uncovered portions of the base with a flocculent surface.
  • the die-cut sections 60 to 73 on the base MD appear to have been inlaid into the flocked surface.
  • the color of the surface of base 10 in the area which will be covered by the flock 75 is of the same color as the flock, to give the flocked coating a more intense and uniform color.
  • a decorative article (see FIG. 5) may be assembled by:
  • a method of making a decorative article comprising the steps of:
  • the base includes a pressure sensitive adhesive on one of its surfaces and the pieces of material are fixed to the base by pressing the pieces against the pressure sensitive adhesive.
  • a method as defined in claim 2 including the step of applying a flock to the adhesive on the base left exposed after said pieces have been fixed to said base.
  • a method as defined in claim 3 including providing the region of the base which will be covered by said flock with substantially the same color as the color of the flock.
  • a method of making a decorative article comprising the steps of:
  • a method as defined in claim 10 including providing the region of the base which will be covered by said flock with substantially the same color as the color of the flock.

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US4079554A (en) * 1974-11-21 1978-03-21 Gaf Corporation Tile assembly
US4199631A (en) * 1976-11-19 1980-04-22 Cheon Yong Duek Design and method of fabricating same
US4390381A (en) * 1981-01-27 1983-06-28 The Quaker Oats Company Yarn coloring picture set and method of coloring
US6286246B1 (en) * 2000-02-01 2001-09-11 Ultradent Products, Inc. Electrostatically flocked fishing lures and related systems and methods
US20050003332A1 (en) * 2001-06-06 2005-01-06 Smith Ronald L. Kit for making decorative articles

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US3002309A (en) * 1959-05-19 1961-10-03 Duane W Snyder Method of making a mosaic of predetermined design
US3157559A (en) * 1961-03-24 1964-11-17 Lawrence D Menconi Highlighting pictorial representation and process of making same
US3553855A (en) * 1969-09-12 1971-01-12 Charles G Oberg Means of producing artistically variegated multi-colored flock pictures

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US3002309A (en) * 1959-05-19 1961-10-03 Duane W Snyder Method of making a mosaic of predetermined design
US3157559A (en) * 1961-03-24 1964-11-17 Lawrence D Menconi Highlighting pictorial representation and process of making same
US3553855A (en) * 1969-09-12 1971-01-12 Charles G Oberg Means of producing artistically variegated multi-colored flock pictures

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US4079554A (en) * 1974-11-21 1978-03-21 Gaf Corporation Tile assembly
US4199631A (en) * 1976-11-19 1980-04-22 Cheon Yong Duek Design and method of fabricating same
US4390381A (en) * 1981-01-27 1983-06-28 The Quaker Oats Company Yarn coloring picture set and method of coloring
US6286246B1 (en) * 2000-02-01 2001-09-11 Ultradent Products, Inc. Electrostatically flocked fishing lures and related systems and methods
US20050003332A1 (en) * 2001-06-06 2005-01-06 Smith Ronald L. Kit for making decorative articles

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