Transfer printing floor tile

Claim 1

A process for transfer printing blanks of material having a periphery comprising the steps of: (a) passing only a transfer sheet with designs thereon, an upper surface and a periphery down a process line in a horizontal plane with the transfer sheet being positioned so that a series of repeat pattern designs thereon are positioned on the upper surface of the transfer sheet as it moves in said aforementioned horizontal plane, (b) depositing on the upper surface of the transfer sheet the blank to be transfer printed with the periphery of the blank being placed in register with the periphery of one of the repeat pattern designs on the transfer sheet, (c) visually observing the registration of the blank to be printed with the repeat pattern of the transfer sheet, (d) holding said blank in register with the design on the transfer sheet by a static charge, (e) conveying only on the transfer sheet as the carrier for the blank thereon from the time where the transfer sheet receives the blank to the time where there will be lamination of the blank and transfer sheet, (f) passing the transfer sheet and the blank through a heating step and then a laminating step to laminate the transfer paper and the blank together, and (g) subsequently separating the transfer paper from the blank with the design of the transfer paper now transferred in register to the blank which was to be printed.