Patent ID: 6939627

Claim:
A scratch layer transfer sheet having a transferable scratch layer that is transferable to a transfer-receiving material in presence of heat, the scratch layer transfer sheet comprising: a substrate film; and the transferable scratch layer having a multilayer structure disposed on surface of the substrate film, the transferable scratch layer comprising: a pattern layer formed pattern-wise on selected portions of the substrate surface; a hiding layer formed on the portions of the pattern layer and on the substrate surface not covered by the portions of the pattern layer, wherein the pattern layer and the hiding layer are transferable to a print surface of the transfer-receiving material in presence of heat with the hiding layer covering the print surface of the transfer-receiving material and the pattern layer visibly showing the pattern, and wherein the pattern layer and the hiding layer are removable from the print surface by scratching the pattern and hiding layers transferred onto the transfer-receiving material, and further wherein, when the areas respectively occupied by said pattern layer and said hiding layer are compared with each other, the proportion of the area occupied by the pattern layer (pattern ratio) is in a range from 5 to 85% per 2 cm 2 of the transferred scratch layer.