Decorating Plastic product design

This is a one step economical process for selectively transferring a high quality image to a plastic product. A heated die transfers the pattern from selected transfer tape to a flat plastic surface. Lettering or decorative designs can be transferred in pigmented, wood grain, or metallic finishes. 

From a practical review, perhaps it can be stated that buildings and construction materials are exposed to the most severe environments on earth, particularity when the long time factor is included. The environments include such conditions as temperature, ultraviolet, wind, snow, corrosion, hail, wear and tear, etc. Basically the following inherent potentials continue to be realized in different plastics ease of maintenance, light weight, flexibility of component design, combine with other materials, corrosion/abrasion/weather resistance, variety of colors and decorative appearance, multiplicity of form, ease of fabrication by mass production techniques, and total cost advantages (combinations of base materials, manufacture and installation). 

Thin to large wall Designing around TP problems is the joint responsibility of the product and mold designers. For example, one way to handle the problem of thin to large area walls is by the inclusion of long ribs into the product in the direction of plastic flow. These ribs are not a functional requirement of the product but they act as auxiliary runners attached to the product to facilitate plastic flow in difficult to fill areas. In some instances the ribs may be used as a surface decoration like a corrugation or they may be on the concealed side of the product where they are stiffeners. 

An important advantage of the plastic is that in thermal processing the finish on the surface of the tool—whether it be matt, leather grain, jazzy pattern, or what you will—can be transferred directly to the workpieces. One proviso when a design is applied in this way is that the tool should not wear quickly (which will result in loss of definition of the decoration) or, worse, that it be scratched or damaged so that the unwanted mark is carried over to the products. 

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