Transfer sheets and method of making the same

Claim 1

IN A METHOD OF PRODUCING A TRANSFER SHEET, THE STEPS OF FORMING ON ONE FACE OF A BACKING SHEET A SOLID LAYER OF A FATTY SUBSTANCE BEING SOLID AT ROOM TEMPERATURE AND BEING ADAPTED TO BE LIQUEFIED UPON BEING HEATED TO A PREDETERMINED ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; HEATING SAID FATTY LAYER AT SAID PREDETERMINED TEMPERATURE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME SUFFICIENT TO MELT AT LEAST THAT PORTION THEREOF WHICH IS FARTHEST DISTANT FROM SAID BACKING SHEET, DUSTING ONTO THE MOLTEN FREE FACE OF SAID FATTY LAYER A COVERING LAYER CONSISTING OF FINELY DIVIDED GRANULATED PULVERULENT SOLID MATERIAL WHICH IS INSOLUBLE IN SAID FATTY SUBSTANCE, SAID STEPS OF HEATING SAID FATTY LAYER AND OF APPLYING SAID PULVERULENT MATERIAL BEING CARRIED OUT IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO FATTY LAYER LEAVING PORTIONS OF SAID INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES EXPOSED AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF THE FREE FACE OF SAID FATTY LAYER, AND ALLOWING THE THUS-FORMED COMPOSITE SHEET TO COOL SO AS TO SOLIDIFY SAID FATTY LAYER, THEREBY FIRMLY ADHERING SAID PARTIALLY EMBEDDED FINELY DIVIDED SOLID MATETERIAL TO THE OUTER PORTION OF SAID FATTY LAYER THUS FORMING A TRANSFER SHEET HAVING A PROTECTIVE, ROUGH OUTER PORTION FORMED OF THE OUTWARDLY EXTENDING FREE PORTIONS OF SAID PARTIALLY EMBEDDED PARTICLES.