Patent ID: 7913619

Claim:
Apparatus for embossing a decorative layer of an embossing film which is of a strip form, on to a small-radiused corner of a surface element, wherein a revolver head which is rotatable stepwise about an axis and which is provided at a linear drive device reciprocatingly movable between an embossing position and an inactive position and which at its periphery has a number of elastic pressing members, wherein a heating device for the pressing members is associated with the pressing members of the revolver head, said pressing members being adapted to be pressed against the surface element in the region of the radius of the corner thereof whereby said pressing member adapts to the radius, and wherein said pressing member comprises a material having a hardness in the range between 45 and 95 degrees Shore, and wherein said revolver head is rotatable in a stepwise manner such that each pressing member is preheated by said heating device and subsequently provided for pressing the embossing film against the surface element.