SURFACE COLOR PATTERNING WHILE DRAWING POLYMER ARTICLES

摘要

Prepare an oriented polymer composition (100) having a decorative appearance by a process including extruding an orientable polymer composition (10) from an extruder (20), directing the orientable polymer composition (10) through a calibrator (30) and then drawing the orientable polymer composition (10), optionally through a drawing die (50), at a drawing temperature to form an oriented polymer composition (100) wherein the process further includes disposing a colorant onto a surface of the oriented polymer composition prior to the calibrator (30), prior to the drawing die(50) or both prior to a calibrator and prior to the drawing die in a pattern having a width of at least five millimeters and that preferably so that the colorant is at least partially located on a recessed portion of the resulting oriented polymer composition' s surface and/or extends to a depth of at least one millimeter below the oriented polymer composition's surface.