METHOD OF APPLYING FLOCKING TO A BASE

• Main Author: MUMPOWER E,US
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.02.1974
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; DECORATING TEXTILES; DECORATIVE ARTS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; LAUNDERING; MOSAICS; NOZZLES; PAPERHANGING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TARSIA WORK; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TEXTILES; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE

A method of applying multi-color flocking to a base structure in a predetermined pattern. The base surface has an adhesive applied thereto over an area corresponding to the predetermined pattern, and the base surface is advanced through a series of flocking stations, each of which includes a supply of flocking of a different color and each of which includes a flocking stencil which is perforated with a different portion of the predetermined pattern. At each station, the particular flocking stencil thereat is interposed in spaced relation between the flocking supply and the base surface, and flocking is caused to pass through the perforations in the flocking stencil by an electrical potential.