CA1230847A - Transferring decorative coating from release layer to electron beam cured adhesive coating - Google Patents

Transferring decorative coating from release layer to electron beam cured adhesive coating

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CA1230847A
CA1230847A CA000426810A CA426810A CA1230847A CA 1230847 A CA1230847 A CA 1230847A CA 000426810 A CA000426810 A CA 000426810A CA 426810 A CA426810 A CA 426810A CA 1230847 A CA1230847 A CA 1230847A
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Abstract

IMPROVEMENTS IN PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR
DECORATING THE SURFACES OF ELECTRON IRRADIATION
CURED COATINGS ON RADIATION-SENSITIVE SUBSTRATES
Abstract A process is disclosed for decorating electron-beam-cured coatings on radiation-sensitive substrates such as paper and the like, with metallized decorative and other layers, by using release layers to which the decorative layers are applied and bonding the same to electron-beam-cured adhesive coatings during curing of the same so that the decorative layers may be transferred to the cured-coated substrate by peeling off the release layer.

Description

lZ3084~7 I~ROVEMENTS IN PROCESS A APP~J~ATUS FOR
I)ECO.~ATI~G THE ~;U~FACr~ OF EYE 'OIL I~.RADIATIGI'~
CURED COATING ON I~ADIATION-~EN~ITIVE ~UB~T.ATE~

The present invention relates to processes and apparatus for decorating the surfaces of electron irradiation cured coatings on radiation-sensitive substrates as of paper, fabric, plastic, glass and other thin sheets, being more particularly directed to securing decorative layers to such substrates through the intermediary of electron-curable adhesive coatings cured upon the substrate.
In my earlier United states Letters Patent Jo, 4,246,297, there is disclosed the lamination between a thin radiation or heat-sensitive substrate, as of paper, fabric or other thin sheet, and a no-lease paper or other layer of an electron-curable coating, as of adhesive properties with the electron energy and doses adjusted with reference to line speeds of the substrate to concentrate the energy in the curing of the coating while obviating degradation -` 123(~847 of the substrate, and with the peeling away of the release layer from the final product of the substrate with its electron-cured coating(s).
There are occasions, however, where it is desired to decorate the outer surface of the cured coating as with decorative layers, including metallized surfaces or patterns and the live. In accordance with the present invention it has been found possible to interpose a petal or similar decorative layer carried by the release layer, as of plastic, between the same and the electron-curable coating imparting to the coating adhesive properties such that, when cured, it will adhere to the petal or similar decorative layer, and the peeling away of the release layer from the coating cured on the substrate will transfer the metal or other decorative layer secured upon the outer surface of the coating.
An object of the present invention, accord-inlay, is to provide a new and improved process of and apparatus for electron-bea~ curing of adhesive or ~L~3(~847 similar coatings upon a paper or similar radiation-sensitive substrate with a decorative layer inter-posed between the coating and the release paper to enable the decorative layer to become bonded to the cured coating and transferred from the release layer when it is peeled away after the curing.
A further object is to provide an electron-beam curing and layer transfer process of more general utility as well.
Other and further objects will be explained hereinafter and are more particularly delineated in the appended claims.
In summary however, from one of its aspects the invention embraces a process for the sub Stan-tidally uniform electron-beam curing of an adhesive coating upon a radiation-sensitive substrate with a decorative layer transferred from a release layer and adhered to the cured coating, comprising, attaching a decorative layer to the inner surface of a release layer and adhered to the cured coating, comprising, attaching a decorative layer to the inner surface of a release layer with the decorative layer susceptible of being stripped therefrom by a predetermined stripping force; assembling the release-layer-decorative layer with a substrate and vdJcw :

~'~3~47 with an electron-beam-curable adhesive coating carried between the decorative layer and the sub-striate; adjusting the viscosity of the adhesive coating to stick to the decorative layer and, upon the electron-beam curing of the adhesive layer, bonding to the decorative layer with an adhering force equal to or greater than the predetermined stripping force; pressing the assembly together;
impinging electron beam radiation upon the pressed-together assembly comprising the substrate with the adhesive coating and decorative layer carrier by the release layer and adjusting the beam to concentrate the principal energy within the coating to cure the same with minimal reaction upon the release layer, decorative layer and substrate of the assembly;
and peeling the release layer from the substrate with its cured coating adhered transferred decorative layer.
Preferred and best mode embodiments are later detailed.

arc: Jo ~Z3~847 Jo The invention Jill now be described in connection tooth the accompanying draying Fig. 1 of which is a schematic side elevation of a system employing the process of the invention; and Fig. 2 is a similar but fragmentary view, upon an enlarged scale, of a modification.
referring to Fig. 1, a radiation-sensiti~e substrate as before discussed, as of taper, is shown in Deb form 1, being fed to an electron-beam curable coating station 2, as of Grover or other rolls, for receiving the coating, such as an adhesive 3.
simultaneously a release layer web, preferably non-moisture bearing, as of polyester or pulpier-pylon plastic layers or films or the like 4 (such as mylar), is fed in the same general direction with an attached decorative layer S on its inner surface, such as a mechanically attached vapor-deposited metallized decorative layer (requiring the berore-mentioned non-moisture aspect in the in-vacuum vapor-deposition process, in sheet or pattern form.

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~23~g7 The coated paper 1-3 and release layer with decor-live layer 4-5 are pressed together at station 6 to provide an assembly err the release paper 4 now carries the electron-beam-curable adhesive layer 3 stuck to the decorative layer 5 and also carried by the paper substrate 1. The pressed-together assembly is passed under an electron-beam irradiation station 7, preferably of the type desk cried in said nutted States Letters Patent Jo.
4,246,297 and in Patents ooze. 3,702,412, 3,745,396 and 3,769,600. Such electron processors accelerate a strip beam of low power energetic electrons (say 80 to 180 rev) through an electron-permeable elongated window 7' simultaneously to impinge a uniform strip of elongated cross-sectional area electrons (into the plane of Fig. 1, transversely across the webs 1-4) perpendicularly upon the assembly 4^5-3~ y ad-jutting the beam energy and dose and distance between the window and webs as described in said Letters Patent Jo. 4,246,297, within dose limits from sub-staunchly 0.5 to several megarads, the energy and lZ30847 dose can be substantially matched to the thicknesses of the materials ox the adhesive-coated-decorated-layer-release paper subassembly 3-5-4 to the right of the lamination or pressure rolls 6, and of the substrate 1 to concentrate the principal energy substantially uniformly in the adhesive coating 3 while insuring minimal energy reaction with the release layer and substrate.
In accordance with the discovery under-lying the present invention, with appropriate vise costly ranges for the electron-beam curable adhesive coating 3, during cure under the radiation processor 7, it has been found that the decorative metallized layer 5 can become sufficiently bonded and permanently adhered to the cured coating 3 that when the release layer 4 it peeled away at 4', along the release line so-labelled, a force equal to or greater than that required to strip the deposited metallized decorative layer S from the release layer 4 is exerted, such that a cured coating adhered to the paper substrate 1 is produced with a transferred . I
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1'~3(~47 -decorative metallized layer as the finished product 1'-3'-5'-Suitable adhesive coatings for these pun-poses are, for example, the Hussein Chemicals Co.
CD4171-63, with a viscosity range of from about 300 to 8000 centerpiece. The metallized decorative layer 5 may be of thickness of the order of 2-6 ohms/square (1200 to 400 Angstroms) vacuum deposited on a coated Mylar film or layer 4 of about 25 microns thickness. Under such circumstances, the stripping force to remove the deposited layer 5 from the release layer 4 is of the order of substantially 500 grams/inch, more or less; which, for the elect tron-beam curable adhesives above mentioned, in thicknesses of about 5-10 grams/square meter on the paper substrate 1 (of thicknesses of about 90 grams/square inch meter), is less than the adhesion force of the cured adhesive coaling 3 bonded to the metalllzed layer 5, enabling stripping from the release layer 4 in a fellable manner.
As a typical example, with a Newton Falls C2S type paper in web form, about 18 inches across the web and traveling at a line speed of about 50 to 250 feet/minute, a polyurethane type adhesive 1~30~47 coating of thickness of 5 grams/square meter (2 to 20 grams/square meter being particularly useful), a Mylar release film with a vapor-deposited aluminum metal layer 5 of about 40 nanometers in thickness (30-300 nanometers being a useful range), has been successfully assembled, cured and has produced a highly satisfactory product 1'-3'-5' with the flea-trocurtain~ processor of Energy Sciences Inc. open-axed with the window 7' about 2 cm. from the release layer 4 and at a voltage of 200 TV and a dose of 3.0 megarads.
'they'll the adhesive coating 3 is ultimately carried by the decorated release layer 4-5 beyond the lamination station 6 to the radiation processor 7, the coating 3 could have been applied directly to the decorative layer 5 instead of being applied thereto after deposition on the paper substrate l. If desired, moreover, the metal or other decorative layer 5 may be attached to the inner surface of the release layer 4 other than by vapor-deposition. The decor-live metal or other layer 5, moreover, may then be provided with a clear or other prime or protective coating on its surface, facing the inner surface of the release layer. For example, in Fix. 2, a release :~3(3~7 Jo coat adhesive 13 is shown used to attach a thin metal or other decorative layer or pattern S''; and prime coat coating 13' may also be used, again deposited on the inner surface of the release film or layer 4. The assembly of the release layer 4 with its release coating 13 (and perhaps prime coating 13') attaching the decorative layer 5'', again laminated with the adhesive coating 3 and substrate 1, is then passed to the curing station 7, resulting in curing of the coatings such that the release paper and its cured release coat 13 peel away, leaving the decorative metal (or other) layer 5"
secured as a decoration bonded to the cured adhesive coating 3, and, if desired, with a cured protective prime coating 13' there over. Suitable electron-beam curable coatings for such an assembly are ad-esive coating Mobil AYE; release coating 13-fry . J
Mobil 145; prime coating, tubule 173/.
further notifications including other suitable materials for the substrate, decorative and release Claris, and other geometries of layers 1~3(~ 7 and electron beams isle readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and such are considered to fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims (11)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY
OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A process for the substantially uniform electron beam curing of an adhesive coating disposed within an assembly having an electron permeable release layer that carries a mechanically adhered decorative layer to which has been applied the coating and that has in turn been applied to a radiation-sensitive substrate, comprising, passing the adhesive-coated release-layer-decorative layer and substrate assembly along a predetermined path; pressing the assembly together; accelerating electron strip beam radiation through an electron-permeable window adjacent to a predetermined region of said path and causing the accelerated strip beam radiation to impinge upon said region over the entire elongated cross-sectional area of the beam simultaneously and substantially uniformly perpendicular to said path, maintaining substantially the entire impinging strip beam radiation at said region at a predetermined energy level selected within energy limits of from substantially 80 to 180 Kev; adjusting the dose delivered by the beam at that predetermined energy level to the pressed-together coated release layer-decorative layer and substrate assembly at said region to a predetermined value within dose limits of from substantially 0.5 to several megarads; the energy and dose being matched to the thickness and materials of the coated release layer-decorative layer and substrate in order to distribute the principal amount of the electron strip beam energy substantially uniformly in said coating and to cure the coating while insuring minimal energy reaction with the release layer, decorative layer and substrate; the decorative layer being attached to one surface of the release layer but susceptible to being stripped therefrom by a predetermined stripping force; the adhesive coating juxtaposed upon the decorative layer between the same and the substrate having sufficient viscosity to stick to the decorative layer and, upon the electron-beam curing, bonding the adhesive coating to the decorative layer with an adhering force equal to or greater than said predetermined stripping force; and peeling the release layer from the substrate with its cured coating and adhered transferred decorative layer.
2. A process as claimed in claim 1 and in which said decorative layer is a metallized layer pattern deposited upon the release layer, and removable therefrom upon application of at least said predetermined stripping force exerted by the peeling of the release layer from the cured adhesive coating cured to the substrate.
3. A process as claimed in claim 2 and in which said release layer is a plastic sheet and said substrate is of paper.
4. A process for the substantially uniform electron beam curing of an adhesive coating upon a radiation-sensitive substrate with a decorative layer transferred from a release layer and adhered to the cured coating, comprising, attaching a decorative layer to on surface of a release layer with the decorative layer susceptible of being stripped therefrom by a predetermined stripping force; assembling the release-layer-decorative layer with a substrate and with an electron-beam-curable adhesive coating carried between the decorative layer and the substrate; adjusting the viscosity of the adhesive coating to stick to the decorative layer and, upon the electron-beam curing of the adhesive layer, bonding to the decorative layer with an adhering force equal to or greater than said predetermined stripping force; pressing the assembly together; impinging electron beam radiation upon the pressed-together assembly comprising the substrate with the adhesive coating and decorative layer carried by the release layer and adjusting the beam to concentrate the principal energy within the coating to cure the same with minimal reaction upon the release layer, decorative layer and substrate of the assembly; and peeling the release layer from the substrate with its cured coating and adhered transferred decorative layer.
5. A process as claimed in claim 4 and in which said decorative layer is a metallized layer pattern deposited upon the release layer, and removable therefrom upon application of at least said predetermined stripping force exerted by the peeling of the release layer from the cured adhesive coating cured to the substrate.
6. A process as claimed in claim 5 and in which said release layer is a plastic sheet and said substrate is of paper.
7. A process as claimed in claim 6 and in which said predetermined stripping force is of the order of at least substantially 500 grams/inch, and said viscosity is in the range of sub-stantially 300 to 8000 centerpoise.
8. A process as claimed in claim 6 and in which the thickness of the metallized decorative layer is of the order of about 30-300 nanometers, and the thickness of the adhesive coating is of the order of about 2 to 20 grams/square inch.
9. A process as claimed in claim 4 and in which the decorative layer is attached to the re-lease layer by one or more further coatings.
10. A process as claimed in claim 9 and in which said further coatings comprise a release coating adjacent the release layer.
11. A process as claimed in claim 10 and in which a prime coating is also provided between the release coating and the decorative layer.
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