Patent ID: 7763190

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a holographic-style film for application to products to impart holographic-style decoration thereto, comprising: providing a polymeric master film having images that are embossed to exhibit a plurality of differing depth characteristics that reflect light at differing angles; extruding a molten primary film polymer onto the polymeric master film and onto its embossed images without distorting the master film and its embossed images; allowing the molten polymer to cool into an extruded primary film, said extruded primary film polymer facilitating formation of image embossments on a face of the primary film to provide a combination film comprising the primary film with said image embossments and the polymeric master film joined together, the extruded primary film image embossments being an inverse image of the embossed images of the polymeric master film; applying the combination film to a product; separating the master film and the extruded polymeric primary film with its image embossments, the extruded primary film being a holographic-style film having an embossed face and that is suitable for application onto a product to be given holographic-style decoration, wherein said separating is carried out after the combination film is applied onto the product; and sublimation dye treating the embossed face of the extruded polymeric primary film with a sublimation dye printing pattern thereby chemically absorbing the printing pattern into and below the surface of the image embossments of the polymeric primary film such that the printing pattern does not obscure the image embossments, whereby the printing pattern and image embossments are simultaneously visible at identical locations on the embossed face.