Method of and apparatus for decorating substrates

摘要

This is a method of decalcomania by thermic transfer, the pattern to be printed upon the substrate (10) to be decorated being produced by means of sublimable inks upon a flexible support skin (15) and the latter being applied to the said substrate (10) in a vacuum chest (20) with which heating means (38) are associated. According to the invention, the closure of the vacuum chest (20) is effected by the flexible support skin (15). Application particularly to the decoration of a spectacle frame front. FIGS.1 to 8 attached.