Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Structurally defined web or sheet – Discontinuous or differential coating – impregnation or bond
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-11
2001-03-06
Dixon, Merrick (Department: 1774)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Structurally defined web or sheet
Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond
C428S046000, C428S908000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06197405
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a surface decoration having a 3-dimensional effect, for placement on a surface, comprising a transparent base sheet of film, a printed design on at least a portion of the base sheet and at least one object illustration formed by the printed design. The invention further relates to a method of producing a surface decoration having a 3-dimensional effect, comprising an object illustration formed by a monochrome or multicolored transparent printed design, where a body color print (opaque pigment) or a non-transparent film sheet is applied to a transparent base sheet of film over a portion of the base sheet surface, wherein the printed design is applied over at least a portion of the base sheet of film. The invention also relates to a utilization of a surface decoration.
It is known to apply decorations, for example in the form of a company emblem or an advertisement, to various kinds of surfaces. Accordingly, it is also known to apply such decorations to the floor. However, these decorations have hitherto been executed in such a way as to give only a 2-dimensional effect or, at best, to produce a poor 3-dimensional effect.
An example of this is shown in European Patent Application 656.265, which shows a decoration where a printed picture, consisting of transparent colors, is printed on the back side of a transparent sheet of film. Over a large part of this printed picture it is printed a print of non-transparent color, which is placed in a screen consisting of larger or smaller dots. The aim of this is to give an impression to the viewer that different parts of the decoration are in different distances from the viewer. By introducing a screen of larger dots, the part of the decoration being within this screen is said to give the impression of being at a greater distance from the viewer than other parts of the decoration being within a screen of smaller dots of no screen at all.
If at all, this way of building a decoration will give a bad impression of 3-dimensional effect.
The aim of the present invention is to improve the 3-dimensional effect of such a surface decoration. This is achieved by a shaded depiction of the object illustration formed by the printed design, in which the shaded depiction the printed design is transparent, as well as in a method of producing a surface decoration, in that the surface of that part of the printed design forming the object illustration is arranged to coincide with the surface area of the body color print or the non-transparent film, and the surface area of another part of the transparent printed design is arranged to fall outside the surface area of the body color print or the non-transparent film, whereby this part of the design is formed as a shaded depiction of the object illustration.
By utilizing a transparent base sheet—as opposed to the conventional opaque base sheet—as the background supporting the printed design, it is possible by the additional use of transparent decorating colors to achieve the effect that, for example, the floor's surface is shining through the decoration. Over a portion of the decoration there may be applied a non-transparent body color (opaque pigment) and/or an opaque cover sheet of film, rendering the decoration opaque over portions of its decorative surface. On parts of the decorative surface such as, for example, where it is desired to create a shadow effect of the opaque portion of the decoration, no body color is used, and the “shadow” thereby becomes transparent. The result is that it is possible to depict an object that is casting a “shadow” across, for example, a floor.
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Johnsen Harald
Johnsen Torill
Dixon Merrick
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Graphic Origins Limited
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