Composite resin

Claim 1

A COMPOSITE SHEET MANIPULATABLE AS A UNIT, SAID COMPOSITE COMPRISING THE COMBINATION OF A FLEXIBLE, RELATIVELY STIFF, SMOOTH-SURFACED, PAPER SUPPORTING SHEET, A THIN SHEET FO FLEXIBLE WATERPROOF READILY EXTENSIBLE RESILIENT PLASTIC RESIN HAVING A SMOOTH SURFACE IN INTIMATE CLINGING ENGAGEMENT WITH BUT NOT ADHESIVELY BONDED TO THE SMOOTH SURFACE OF SAID SUPPORTING SHEET, AND A DRY FILM OF ACTIVATABLE, SUBSTANTIALLY NON-TACKY ADHESIVE BONDED TO AND COEXTENSIVE WITH THE SURFACE OF SAID THIN RESIN SHEET WHICH IS NOT IN CONTACT WITH THE SUPPORTING SHEET, THE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SAID SUPPORTING SHEET AND SAID THIN SHEET OF RESIN BEING STRONGLY RESISTIVE TO DISTORTIONAL FORCES EXERTED ON SAID RESIN SHEET, BUT SAID ENGAGEMENT BEING SO WEAK AS TO BE READILY RUPTURED TO PERMIT THE SUPPORTING SHEET TO BE READILY STRIPPED FROM THE RESIN SHEET.

Claim 3

THE METHOD OF PREPARING A SURFACE DECORATED, UNITARY, SELF-SUSTAINING SHEET OF A FLEXIBLE, READILY EXTENSIBLE, RESILIENT PLASTIC WHICH COMPRISES FORMING FROM A FREELY FLOWING PLASTIC BATCH MATERIAL A DRY SOLIDIFIED PLASTIC SHEET ON AN INEXTENSIBLE, FLEXIBLE CARRIER SHEET HAVING FREE ENDS, SAID PLASTIC SHEET BEING IN DIRECT SUPERFICIAL CONTACT WITH THE SURFACE ON THE CARRIER SHEET, SAID SURFACE BEING SMOOTH AND UNFAVORABLE TO THE FORMATION OF AN INTERLOCKING BOND WITH THE PLASTIC SHEET, TO WHICH SURFACE THE PLASTIC SHEET COHERES TO PROVIDE A READILY MANIPULABLE FISSIONABLE ASSEMBLAGE, PROCESSING THE TWO COHERENT SHEET BY PASSING THE SAME IN ASSEMBLED RELATION AND IN FLEXIBLE CONDITION TO AND FROM A DECORATING ZONE AND WHILE IN SAID ZONE APPLYING DECORATIVE MATERIAL DIRECTLY TO THE EXPOSED SURFACE OF THE PLASTIC SHEET WHILE IT IS MAINTAINED AGAINST DISTORTION OF AREA BY THE THERETO COHERING CARRIER SHEET, AND THEREAFTER STRIPPING FROM THE CARRIER SHEET THE DECORATED PLATIC SHEET AS A SELF-SUSTAINING SHEET.

Claim 4

THE METHOD OF PREPARING A SURFACE DECORATED, UNITARY, SELF-SUSTAINING SHEET OF A FLEXIBLE, READILY EXTENSIBLE, RESILIENT PLASTIC WHICH COMPRISES FORMING FROM A FREELY FLOWING PLASTIC BATCH MATERIAL A DRY SOLIDIFIED PLASTIC SHEET ON AN INEXTENSIBLE, FLEXIBLE CARRIER SHEET HAVING FREE ENDS, SAID PLASTIC SHEET BEING IN DIRECT SUPERFICIAL CONTACT WITH THE SURFACE ON THE CARRIER SHEET, SAID SURFACE BEING SMOOTH AND UNFAVORABLE TO THE FORMATION OF AN INTERLOCKING BOND WITH THE PLASTIC SHEET, TO WHICH SURFACE THE PLASTIC SHEET COHERES TO PROVIDE A READILY MANIPULABLE FISSIONABLE ASSEMBLAGE, PROCESSING THE TWO COHERENT SHEET BY PASSING THE SAME IN ASSEMBLED RELATION AND IN FLEXIBLE CONDITION TO AND FROM A DECORATING ZONE AND WHILE IN SAID ZONE APPLYING DECORATIVE MATERIAL DIRECTLY TO THE EXPOSED SURFACE OF THE PLASTIC SHEET WHILE IT IS MAINTAINED AGAINST DISTORTION OF AREA BY THE THERETO COHERING CARRIER SHEET, AND THEREAFTER STRIPPING FROM THE CARRIER SHEET THE DECORATED PLATIC SHEET AS A SELF-SUSTAINING SHEET.