GB2263445A

GB2263445A - Embossed coloured painting

Info

Publication number: GB2263445A
Application number: GB9024213A
Authority: GB
Inventors: John Graham Hassall
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1990-11-07
Filing date: 1990-11-07
Publication date: 1993-07-28
Anticipated expiration: 2010-11-07
Also published as: GB9024213D0; GB2263445B

Abstract

Embossed coloured paintings are produced by applying coloured transparent fluids onto blown vinyl wallcoverings.

Description

METHOD OF PRODUCNG COl;OtIRING SYSTEM This invention relates to a method of colouring a picture and obtaining correct outlines around the chosen subject matter and designed content of each individual section of the picture.

The invention incorporates the already known qualities of a particular type of wallcovering known as blown vinyl. This wallpaper process is intrinsic to the invention.

With this method of producing blown vinyl wallcovering already being known, it is unnecessary to describe the process of its manufacture or technical reference in any detail, and it is sufficient to say that this is the process required for the inventions foundation and base material.

Wallpaper manufacture normally consists of a pre-designed image that is subsequently transferred onto rollers that then produce amounts of the designed image into desired lengths or rolls. Finished rolls of paper are then available for sale and distribution as a final product by the manufacturer.

This invention relates to this same known process, but utilises the already known process in an innovative way instead of a pre-designed image that either completely covers the surface of the wallpaper with one all over pattern, or as an alternative any of the vast range of potential wallpaper designs that simply repeat at some desired area of the pattern. This concept by way of description is now explained.

At the designing stage a set of, for example, four totally different pictures are created. These pictures are placed side by side and utilise only the necessary space that will allow them to be guillotined into separate items at the end of the printing process.

Each of the designed pictures has an encompassing area which could be in raised blown vinyl. This area acts as a frame and separates each picture into an individual unit.

After a normal method of producing a roll of wallpaper has been completed, the setting out of the design description mentioned will then produce an amount of individual items. The roll of pictures could if so desired be laminated onto a suitable card surface and cut into individual items.

Each of the individually designed pictures will consist of the various rises and falls or embossed and flattened areas, peculiar to embossed wallpaper finished, but in particular the effects of blown vinyl wallcoverings. By way of example, drawing A shows the various embossed areas and how they give way to flat areas.

Drawing B shows how the coloured transparent fluids fall inside the recessed areas of the design and outline the subject matter and help the separation of one part of the subject matter from another part of the subject matter, without the aid of any skill by the applier of colour.

Consequently a design of quite some intricacy that has been considered by a designer at the onset, as to which areas shall be of an embossed appearance, and therefore have an outline around the entirety of that particular design area can be freely coloured by a user, with a positive encompassing outline, appearing around the circumference of the coloured section with no artistic knowledge being necessary by the user as to where an outline should appear.

By way of further explanation as to this invention, a description of the qualities of the surface of blown vinyl wallcoverings is necessary.

Blown vinyl consists of mainly three different levels. Flat, semiraised and the top surface, these varying depths give a three dimensional appearance to the surface and supersede any previous attempts at three dimensional appearance to wallcovering. The softness of blown vinyl and its sharpness of clarity are factors that enable this invention to have a purpose.

The softness of the surface enables transparent fluids to penetrate immediately with no fluid being retained on the top or semi raised areas. When the fluids soak through the two raised surfaces and eventually reach the flat base they have tinted the two prior surfaces only, and on reaching the base which has a different surface treatment and is of a less porous paper, collect in the various recesses available and dry to the full depth of their colour potential. This enables the outlining effect to happen and is the foundation of the invention.

Each amount of colour applied to the surface design only finds two places to go, either it will tint the raised sections or find its way through the various channels of the raised vinyl surfaces to the base.

The applier of the colour needs no special skills as an artist to readily complete a finished coloured painting that is duly outlined in all the right and necessary places and excess amounts of coloured fluid application only serve to enhance the design content by adding further depth to the picture.

The combination of the print clarity of the blown vinyl embossed surface enables a clearly defined picture to be created. The additive of transparent colours applied at a later stage will enable a finished and individual coloured embossed painting to be produced without the aid of artistic knowledge or ability by the general public.

A specific embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A design of flowers, leaves and a vase is seen in Drawing A.

The design consists of embossed areas semi-embossed areas and flat areas. The embossed and semi-embossed areas appear in a random fashion throughout the design while the flat areas are always at the base or bottom of the surface paper.

The blown vinyl design is produce in either white or a pale tone. This enables colours to be added at a later stage. There may be exceptions to this by printing various coloured outlines, but for this example a plain white surface is shown and is the desired colour.

Drawing A Fig. 1 shows embossed areas and Fig. 2 shows flat areas.

The small diagram at the bottom of sheet A shows the effect of an embossed frame that would encompass each picture.

Drawing B shows an enlarged single leaf with Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 still denoting embossed and flat areas respectively. Fig. 3 shows how colours once applied settle onto the base or Fig. 2 areas and cause an outline by becoming slightly darker in tone.

Drawing C Although in black and white represents the outlining effects that surround each embossed area of design once colour had been applied.

Drawing D shows an actual base foundation with colours applied to one half of the design.

Claims

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1. A method of producing an embossed coloured painting suitably outlined around all necessary parts of the pre-designed areas.

2. A method of producing a coloured surface item of embossed appearance by adapting blown vinyl wallpapers intrinsic qualities.

3. A method of producing a coloured item by applying coloured transparent fluids onto blown vinyl wallcoverings after the normal process of blown vinyl wall covering manufacture has been completed.

4. A method of producing individual sections as opposed to lengths of blown vinyl wallcoverings.

5. A method of producing sections suitable for colouring after the known process of wallcovering has been completed.

6. A method of utilising the surface of blown vinyl wallcovering as a base for colouring after completed manufacture.

7. A method of utilising the embossed and flat areas of blown vinyl wallcovering to create specific single units with design contact that resembles a picture in a frame.

8. A method of tinting the surface of blown vinyl wallcoverings with transparent colours.