Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With stretching or tensioning means
Patent
1996-09-24
1998-04-07
Sells, James
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With stretching or tensioning means
156498, 156522, 156555, 1565831, B32B 3100
Patent
active
057359970
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a device for mounting, laminating and/or enclosing an illustration, whereby such an illustration can be more easily handled, protected and/or presented. The present invention moreover relates to a cassette for such a device, so that by changing cassettes different cover foils and/or enclosing foils can be used at choice with such a device without too much difficulty.
Understood by mounting in the present invention is the arranging of an illustration on a substrate, wherein the illustration generally lies freely on the substrate. The illustration is herein adhered to the substrate by means of a glue layer. The substrate can consist in this case of a rigid material such as optionally water-resistant cardboard, a foam plate, a plate of polystyrene or polymethacrylate which is optionally transparent, so that in this case the illustration is visible through the transparent underlayer. The glue to be used can consist of a double-sided adhering foil, a hot melt applied to a silicon paper or a sheet of plastic such as polyethylene which serves both as foil and glue.
Understood by laminating in the present invention is the application of a covering layer over the illustration which is provided in advance or simultaneously with a substrate. This means that the illustration is protected by the covering layer and is usually visible through the covering layer.
The covering or enclosing foil usually consists of a layer provided with a glue layer. This layer can consist of polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, polyester and the like, while the glue can consist of a plastic such as polyethylene, an acryl dispersion, an acryl solution, which glue can be a heat-sensitive or pressure-sensitive glue. In the case of a pressure-sensitive glue this glue layer is often temporarily provided with a protective sheet.
In the case of laminating a substrate can be used which is the same as is used in the case of mounting.
Understood by enclosing in the present patent application is simultaneously providing the illustration on both sides with an enclosing foil. These foils are generally very thin materials and can in principle be the same materials as are used for cover foil during lamination.
It is noted that the materials which arc used for mounting, laminating and enclosing are in principle from the prior art and the device according to the invention has been developed such that such existing material is can be used during mounting, laminating and/or enclosing.
The illustration which is processed in the device according to the tale invention can consist of a drawing, a photo, but will usually consist of illustrations produced with printers, in particular colour printers, which generate illustrations which cannot be distinguished, or hardly so, from the illustrations obtained via photographic processes. Equipment for producing such illustrations, in particular the colour printers, is becoming increasingly cheaper so that producing such illustrations is also becoming more and more accessible for the non-professional market. There therefore exists a need for devices likewise suitable for the non-professional sector for mounting, laminating and/or enclosing such illustrations. One condition, however, is that the operation of such devices must be possible by non-professional users, while the costs must be adapted to those of for instance colour printers for producing illustrations.
With such a device it is therefore possible for non-professional users to be able to rapidly produce illustrations which, after mounting on a substrate, after lamination and/or enclosing, can be directly used in stores, factories and as advertising material for indoors as well as outdoors.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has for its object to provide a device which meets the above stated requirements for mounting, laminating and/or enclosing an illustration. According to a first aspect, the present invention is based on the insight that for the mounting, laminating and enclosing not thr
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