Method of selectively forming an aluminum evaporation face

• US 4,810,320 A
• Filed: 01/07/1988
• Issued: 03/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hiromichi Inagaki
• Original Assignee: Hiromichi Inagaki
• Inventors: Inagaki, Hiromichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ball, Michael W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FALASCO, LOUIS V
• Application Number:
  US07/144,592
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 156/230, 156/233, 156/234, 156/238, 156/241, 156/246, 156/247, 156/249, 156/289, 156/277, 156/300, 156/307.3, 156/311, 156/331.7, 156/344, 427/207.1, 427/208.6, 427/208.8, 427/258, 427/272, 101/211, 101/426, 29/423, 29/424, 283/83, 430/126
• US Class Current: 156/233
• CPC Class Codes: B44C 1/14 Metallic leaves or foils, e.g. gold leaf
• CPC Class Codes: B44C 1/1729 Hot stamping techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/046 by selective transfer or selective detachment of a conductive layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 156/921 Delaminating container component in preparation for recycling, e.g. glass bottle, plastic bottle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 156/936 Means for delaminating container component in preparation for recycling, e.g. glass bottle, plastic bottle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1142 Changing dimension during delaminating [e.g., crushing, expanding, warping, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/19 Delaminating means

Abstract

Method of selectively forming an aluminum evaporation film on a surface such as the surface of a container made of plastic film, paper, or glass and of stamping the aluminum evaporation film, by building up the aluminum evaporation film, effecting the stamping work on the aluminum evaporation film or providing the aluminum evaporation film on the surface of a container such as a glass bottle, such as by forming the aluminum evaporation film on one of two films or sheets, applying a hardenable or curable bonding agent meeting or in registry with letters and/or patterns provided on the other of the two films or sheets, then pasting up or joining the two films or sheets together, and thereafter when the bonding agent has hardened, separating the two films or sheets from each other and shifting the aluminum evaporation film to the bonding agent side containing film or sheet.

Claims

1. Method of shifting an aluminum face area in a selective pattern from an aluminum evaporation face contained on one side of a first sheet to a second sheet containing a curable or hardenable bonding agent in a corresponding such selective pattern on a corresponding side of the second sheet, for forming an aluminum evaporation film in said pattern on the second sheet, comprising the steps of

providing one side of such a first sheet with a continuous coating aluminum evaporation face contained thereon,

printing one side of such a second sheet with an ink to form a printed ink face in a discrete pattern,

applying a curable or hardenable bonding agent onto the printed ink face in matching registry with the printed face discrete pattern,

joining the first and second sheets under mechanical pressure to form a sheet composite in which the aluminum evaporation face of the first sheet is in contact with the adjacent bonding agent in such pattern on the second sheet,

allowing the bonding agent to cure or harden in the formed sheet composite in discrete areas of curing and hardening, and

after the bonding agent has cured or hardened, then transfer the aluminum evaporation face to shift the area of the aluminum evaporation face in contact with the so cured or hardened bonding agent onto the bonding agent, and separating the first and second sheets of the sheet composite from each other, whereby to form simultaneously a corresponding aluminum evaporation film in the selective discrete pattern on the separated second sheet and a reverse image selective discrete pattern area defined by a portion of the aluminum evaporation face which remains on the separated first sheet.

2. Method of claim 1 wherein the first sheet is a plastic film sheet.

3. Method of claim 1 wherein the first sheet is a transparent plastic film sheet.

4. Method of claim 1 wherein the second sheet is a plastic film sheet.

5. Method of claim 1 wherein the second sheet is a paper sheet.

6. Method of claim 1 wherein the bonding agent is a hardenable urethane resin.

7. Method of claim 1 wherein the second sheet is in the form of a container.

8. Method of claim 1 wherein a container having a surface containing a corresponding said reverse image selective pattern area of such a curable or hardenable bonding agent is provided, and the separated first sheet having the reverse image selective pattern area defined by the remainder of the aluminum separation face thereon is joined to the container to form a sheet-container composite in which such remainder of the aluminum evaporation face of the first sheet is in contact with the adjacent bonding agent in such selective pattern area on such surface of the container, and allowing the bonding agent to cure or harden in the sheet-container composite.

9. Method of claim 8 wherein the area of the aluminum evaporation face in contact with the so cured or hardened bonding agent is shifted onto the bonding agent, by thereafter separating the first sheet from such container surface.