Patent ID: 6939585
Filing Date: 2005-09-06
Classification: B41M,B44C,B60R

Abstract:
1. A liquid pressure transfer method, comprising: supporting a transfer film on a surface of a transfer liquid by floating the transfer film on the liquid, wherein the transfer film has a transfer pattern for decoration printed thereon; downwardly immersing a loop shaped workpiece in the transfer liquid so as to transfer the transfer film to a surface of the loop shaped workpiece for decorating the workpiece such that a plane of the surface of the transfer liquid at a transfer initiating site extends through the loop shaped workpiece; wherein the loop shaped workpiece has a loop shaped direction in which the workpiece extends and a thickness direction which is perpendicular to the loop shaped direction in which the workpiece extends; wherein said downwardly immersing comprises moving the loop shaped workpiece along the loop shaped direction in which the workpiece extends at the transfer initiating site so as to continuously immerse the loop shaped workpiece in the transfer liquid while maintaining the attitude of the workpiece to the surface of the transfer liquid the same such that a circumference of a cross section of the loop shaped workpiece, taken in the thickness direction of the loop shaped workpiece, is substantially concurrently contacted with the transfer film at the transfer initiating site; wherein the transfer initiating site is at a position at which a portion of the loop shaped workpiece which is located above the surface of the transfer liquid, with another portion of the loop shaped workpiece immersed in the transfer liquid, is first brought into contact with the transfer film by moving the loop shaped workpiece along the loop shaped direction so as to continuously immerse the loop shaped workpiece in the transfer liquid; and moving at least one of the loop shaped workpiece and the transfer film during said downwardly immersing such that a portion of the transfer film which has not yet been used for transfer printing can be used for transfer printing.