TRANSFER FOR DECORATING SURFACES WITH IMAGES BEING EXTREMELYDURABLE, IN PARTICULAR IMAGES COMPRISING LIGHT-REFLECTING AND COLOURED AREAS IN ARBITRARY COMBINATION, AND A PROCESS OF MAKING SAME

摘要

A transfer for decorating textiles with images being extremely durable comprises a support sheet having printed imagewise thereon one or more layers of two-component colours based on polyester resin and an isocyanate hardener and, if there is more than one colour layer, on top thereof a layer of a corresponding two-compone nt extender or a polyester-based glue, the colour layer or the extender and colour layers containing a polyester or polyamide based elastomer which has been applied to the colour or extender layer while it was still wet, and fused into the colour layer or the extender and colour layers. A particular transfer for decorating textiles with images comprising light-reflecting areas of any configuration and colour in arbitrary combination with coloured, non-reflecting areas comprises a support sheet with a monolayer of transparent microspheres being partially embedded in the support sheet, a specularly reflecting layer covering the parts of th e surfaces of the microspheres which are exposed above the support sheet, one or more coatings of two-component colours as above printed imagewise on top of the layer of micros- pheres, and a transfer layer of a corresponding two-component extender or a polyester-based glue printed imagewise on top of the layer of mircospheres and colour, the extender and colour layers containing a polyester or polyamide based elastomer as above.