DOUGLAS C CREED
Engineers in Lake Wylie, SC
License number
Pennsylvania PE015217E
Category
Engineers
Type
Professional Engineer
Address
Address
2
Lake Wylie, SC 29710
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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2 Pine Knoll Dr, Lake Wylie, SC 29710
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Simulated Surface Building Materials And Process For Making The Same
US Patent:
6686315, Feb 3, 2004
Filed:
Mar 8, 2000
Appl. No.:
09/520818
Inventors:
Douglas C. Creed - Lake Wylie SC
Assignee:
Digital Dimensional Stone, LLC - Fort Mill SC
International Classification:
B41M 5035
US Classification:
503227, 428 15
Abstract:
The present invention solves these needs by providing a building product, and a process for making the building product, that simulates the look of wood, marble, granite or other stone. The product is created by transferring a high-resolution image to a coated substrate using sublimation printing techniques. High-resolution, digital images are taken of a natural surface. These images are used to create an image on a transfer paper using sublimation inks. Building panels such as masonite, hardboard, medium density fiberboard, fiber-reinforced plastics, or cementboard, are provided with a polyester epoxy acrylate coating, or equivalent substrate capable of receiving sublimable inks. The transfer paper with the printed image is placed face-down on the substrate of the building panel. The transfer paper is pressed against the substrate and heated for a time sufficient to gasify the sublimable inks. The gasification causes the image to transfer into the image-receiving substrate.