Making a decorative stained glass effect window shade

• US 4,078,492 A
• Filed: 10/04/1974
• Issued: 03/14/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alan D. Levy
• Original Assignee: Alan D. Levy
• Inventors: Seltman, Mark A., Levy, Alan D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coughenour, Clyde I.
• Application Number:
  US05/512,123
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 160/238, 160/264, 101/426, 101/129, 101/128.3, 101/211, 101/467
• US Class Current: 29/428
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 1/30 on organic plastics, horn or similar materials recording sheets having a coating to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity B41M5/50; marking or recording on plastic by irradiation with electromagnetic beams, e.g. laser, B41M5/267
• CPC Class Codes: B44F 1/063 Imitation of leaded light
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/13 with closing members of one piece, e.g. of corrugated sheet metal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/914 Transfer or decalcomania
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A decorative stained glass effect window shade in the form of a light transparent elongated plastic film adapted to cover a window opening and having thereon a colored reproduction of an actual stained glass window assembly and produced by photographing a stained glass window on a positive transparency film, transferring the photograph from the transparency to an ink reproducing member and reproducing the transparency onto a transparent plastic film in light transmitting colored inks.

Claims

1. The process of producing a decorative stained glass effect window shade comprising the steps of:

(a) Providing a stained glass window in a selected pattern of colored glass segments,

(b) Photographing at least a part of the stained glass window under lighting conditions which bring out its dimensionality and surface irregularity using positive transparency film,

(c) Developing the positive transparency film to produce an image of said stained glass window,

(d) Reproducing the image of the postive transparency film on an ink applying printing member, and

(e) Causing the printing member to apply a correspondingly colored image onto a single transparent sheet of plastic film using light transmitting colored inks.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein the printing member is a silk screen.

3. The process of claim 1 wherein the printing member is a printing roll.

4. The process of claim 1 wherein the printing member is a printing plate.

5. The process of producing a decorative stained glass effect window shade according to claim 1, comprising the additional steps of

(a) Providing a shade roller member, and

(b) Attaching the single sheet of plastic film to the shade roller member.