This application provides an alignment film transfer printing plate including a substrate, a first dot arranged on the substrate, and a plurality of second dots arranged around the first dot. A height of each of the second dots in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate is less than or equal to a height of the first dot in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, a blocking portion is formed on an end of the first dot away from the substrate, and an area of an end surface of each of the second dots away from the substrate is less than an area of an end surface of the blocking portion away from the substrate.

A die and counter die system for impressing a relief pattern onto a substrate, including at least one male die including a contact surface and defining a relief pattern, a compressible counter film including a base layer, a contact layer disposed opposite the contact surface of the at least one male die and spaced therefrom, and a compressible layer disposed between the base layer and the contact layer and attached thereto. The contact layer is featureless in a region thereof opposing the relief pattern on the at least one male die. The compressible counter film has a compressibility, in a direction perpendicular to a broad face of the compressible counter film, in the range of 5-30% at 1.35 MPa. The system further includes a compression mechanism adapted to move the at least one male die and the compressible counter film towards one another in an operative mode.

A method and device of embossing individually light-reflecting areas on a foil material, the method and device comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a first roller and a second roller, providing each of the first roller and second roller at their respective surfaces at least in a determined perimeter, respectively with a plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections and a plurality of negative projections complementary to the positive projections, whereby the plurality of positive projections are arranged according to a 2-dimensional grid. The plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections seamlessly and gaplessly join with those corresponding negative projections at the intended embossing of the foil material, hence enabling a homogeneously jointed embossed polyhedron-like shape in the foil. The method and device further comprise, for the purpose of providing a plurality of light-reflecting areas on the foil material, that are intended to reflect light in line with a table of reflectivity values for the 2-dimensional grid, according to an orientation and shape of each of the plurality of light-reflecting areas, and enabling a perception by the human eye of a user, of the intended reflected light on a determined wide viewing angle covered by reflected light from any of the light-reflecting areas, a step of adjusting for each of the plurality of light-reflecting areas to be provided, an orientation and shape of the corresponding positive projection in the 2-dimensional grid, that is intended to emboss the light-reflecting area.

The present invention is directed to a method for the production of panels from a board. Said panels are produced from the board by dissecting the board along predefined lines. The board comprises a core material board and is laminated with a laminate material layer. At least one impressed region running linear over the complete surface is present in the surface where the laminate material layer is present. The dissecting of the board is accomplished along these impressed regions. After dissecting pairing mechanical locking means at opposite edges of the raw boards are milled out. According to the present invention, the impressed region has a well defined width in order to allow deviations from an ideal dissecting plane, when dissecting the board in order to produce panels. The present invention furthermore relates to a press plate, allowing for the production of boards having well defined impressed regions. Furthermore, the present invention discloses a method for the production of a board, having a specific defined impressed region. In addition, also a board for the production of panels is described.

A textured release sheet includes a substrate, which has been electron beam treated, including a top side and a bottom side. A matte surface is formed on the bottom side thereof, wherein the matte surface of the surfacing material is a coating of an radiation curable material applied to the bottom side of the substrate. The coating is an UV curable acrylate mixture applied to the substrate, wherein the UV curable acrylate mixture is irradiated with UV-radiation via an excimer laser emitter to produce a UV-irradiated layer wherein the UV curable acrylate mixture is only crosslinked on the surface thereof, which produces a matting surface through the effects of a micro-convolution.

A method for manufacturing a laminate panel, where in a first step a press element is manufactured showing a surface relief. In a second step by means of the press element a relief is formed in a surface of the laminate panel, where the surface relief of the press element is provided with protrusions, which during pressing form recesses in the surface of the laminate panel. The recesses imitate wood pores. When manufacturing the press element, at least a number of the protrusions is made elongate and as such are formed substantially or essentially by a machining treatment with rotating cutting tools.

A method for embossing a nanostructure, formed on a nanostructure punch, into a punch surface of a curable material which has been applied to a substrate. The method includes the following steps, especially following sequence: alignment of the nanostructure relative to the punch surface, embossing of the punch surface by a) prestressing of the nanostructure punch by deformation of the nanostructure punch and/or prestressing of the substrate by deformation of the substrate, b) making contact of a partial area of the punch surface with the nanostructure punch and c) automatic contacting of the remaining surface at least partially, especially predominantly, by the prestressing of the nanostructure punch and/or the prestressing of the substrate.

A method of embossing individually light reflecting areas on a foil material, the method comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a motor roller and a counter roller, providing each of the motor roller and counter roller at least in a determined perimeter with a plurality of positive and negative projections on a checkered layout whereby positive and negative projections alternate in axial and radial directions. The method further comprises that the plurality of positive and negative projections of the counter roller seamlessly and gaplessly join with those corresponding negative and positive projections of the motor roller at the intended embossing of the foil material, hence enabling a homogeneously jointed embossed polyhedron shape in the foil, and shaping each positive and negative projection on the motor roller as an n-cornered polyhedron with a specific surface intended to produce on the embossed foil surface a corresponding individually light reflecting area, for each positive projection its specific surface corresponding to its top side, and for each negative projection its specific surface corresponding to its bottom side.

A method for manufacturing a decorative material, the method including a step of creating density distribution data having a density value D(x, y) for each two-dimensional position (x, y); a step of converting the density value D(x, y) into a height H(x, y) corresponding to how large the concentration value is; a step of converting the height H(x, y) into a depth F(x, y) that corresponds to the height; a step of forming irregularities on a surface of a material to be a die based on the depth F(x, y) to form the die; and a step of shaping a resin with respect to the irregularities of the die to form irregularities on a surface of the resin.

A method for clamping a workpiece that is first provided with depressions, wherein these depressions are, arranged in one row or a field having a grid distance of 3 mm. The grid distance is thereby the center distance of the depressions, the depth of which is preferably less than the length of the depressions measured in direction of the row of the depressions. The distances between the depressions preferably correspond approximately to the length of the depressions. The grid distance of 2.5 mm to 3 mm has proven to be an optimum for a wide range of usable workpieces and materials.