Abstract A method of making adhesive applique article wherein one surface of a base layer of sheet material is provided with an adhesive backing a filler layer of resiliently compressible padding material, advantageously but not necessarily a layer of synthetic plastic foam material is interposed between the other surface of one one layer and a cover layer of sheet material. At least these layers are severed along a borderline which is inwardly spaced from their edges and coincides with the outline of the finished applique article, and selected portions of the top and base layers are bonded to one another within the confines of the borderline across the corresponding interposed portions of the foam layer while the selected portions are simultaneously pressed together with concomitant reduction in the thickness of the interposed portions of the foam layer. The remaining portions of the cover layer thus constitute at the exposed side of the latter a raised resilient design filled with the remaining portions of the foam layer and the result is a three-dimensional applique article which can be adhesively affixed to any desired surface.
A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said material of said intermediate layer is a thermoplastic cellular material; and wherein the step of bonding said cover layer to said base layer comprises subjecting said intermediate layer to the influence of elevated temperature within said inner and outer bonding zones so as to effect at least partial melting of said intermediate layer in said zones with concomitant collapse of the cell structure of said cellular material in said zones.
Claim 2
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A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said base layer is a textile material having interstices, and wherein said material of said intermediate layer is a thermoplastic material; the step of activating said latently adhesive material comprising subjecting said intermediate layer to elevated temperature in said inner and outer bonding zones for effecting at least partial melting of said intermediate layer in said zones and penetration of said thermoplastic material into said interstices of said textile material of said base layer.
Claim 3
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A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step of providing said adhesive backing comprises coating said one surface of said base layer with a latently adhesive agent.
Claim 4
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A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step of providing said adhesive backing comprises coating said one surface with an actively adhesive agent.
Claim 5
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A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said material of said intermediate layer is a thermoplastic fibrous sliver.
Claim 6
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A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said material of said intermediate layer is an open-celled synthetic plastic foam material.
Claim 7
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A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said material of said intermediate layer is a closed-celled synthetic plastic foam material.