Stahls' Inc.

Kyle Glenn Cross

Transfers, suitable for applying complex designs to articles by the application of heat and pressure, are prepared simply and economically by printing the design onto plain paper or other fusible polymer-free substrate from a conventional ink-jet printer. The avoidance of polymer-coated paper allows the design to be transferred to fabric articles without altering the hand and feel of fabric in non-printed areas without the necessity of cutting the transfer from the substrate.

Decorative transfer process

The present invention involves a method of creating a transfer. The method comprises providing a heat sensitive polymer substrate having a heat sensitive opaque polymer film and a heat activated adhesive disposed thereon, and providing a second carrier film having a second polymer film and a second adhesive wherein the second adhesive has a peel strength which decreases with increasing temperature. The method further includes printing resin solids in a desired graphic onto the opaque polymer film at a temperature which is below the temperature at which the polymer substrate is activated to create a printed transfer, positioning the printed transfer on the second polymer film, and adhering the printed transfer onto an adherable article by applying sufficient heat to the polymer substrate at a temperature which is above the temperature which the polymer substrate activates and at which to substantially reduce the peel strength of the second adhesive.

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New Baltimore, MI, United States of America

Kyle Glenn Cross