RESINOUS-LIKE EMBOSSING MEMBER FOR USE IN EMBOSSING PRESS, FOR GREETING CARDS, AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

摘要

RESINOUS-LIKE EMBOSSING MEMBER FOR USE IN EMBOSSING PRESS, FOR GREETING CARDS, AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME A method of forming a resinous-like embossing plate and the resultant relatively low cost resinous-like embossing plate product, adapted for use in an embossing and diecutting press for embossing a selected design onto paper greeting cards. The method comprising providing a line sketch of a selected design, making a photographic negative of such line sketch to capture all of the detail thereof, and using the negative to apply the line sketch design to both sides of a relatively thin sheet of relatively soft embossable material. Manual indenting or embossing of the design into the embossable sheet from a side thereof is accomplished, utilizing for instance a wooden or plastic skewer to provide a female matrix on one side of the embossable sheet. The embossable sheet may then be reversed so that the male or convex portion of the matrix design faces upwardly and such male matrix is disposed in a mold enclosure, after which liquid plastic is poured into the mold enclosure and utilized in conjunction with fibrous reinforcing material such as fibrous mats, to form, upon setting of the liquid plastic, a relatively low cost embossing plate for use in a press, in embossing the selected design onto paper greeting card stock. A generally conventional plastic counter is utilized in the press in conjunction with the produced embossing plate, for accomplishing the embossing of the design onto the paper greeting card stock. For nonintricate or little detail designs, the use of the photographic negative step can be eliminated, and the design may be traced directly onto the embossable metal plate for subsequent tooling.