Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

A process for duplicating in series an object having a decorative three-dimensional surface comprising a plurality of ridges, or protrusions. The process comprises, in particular the steps of introducing the object in a hollow container body having an side containing side that extends, in use, beyond the object. A step follows of distribution on said object of a setting material to cover the decorative three-dimensional surface of the object. Once the setting material sets, a mould is obtained having at the face oriented towards the object a three-dimensional surface that reproduces in negative the object's three-dimensional surface. The process provides then distributing a thermoplastic material on a first face of a support obtaining a layer having a predetermined height. Then, the support and the mould are overlapped to one another to obtain a system consisting of the support and of the mould, where the first face of the support is arranged in contact with the three-dimensional surface of the mould. The layer of the thermoplastic material, thus obtained, is cooled in order to provide a cast that is then subject to a printing step to obtain a duplication of the starting object.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim