VEGETABLE COMPONENTS, DEHYDRATED, SEALED AND WATERPROOFED, APPLIED FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSE ON GARMENTS, OBJECTS AND FURNISHING COMPONENTS AND ITS METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION/MANUFACTURING PROCEDURES

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vegetable components, dehydrated, sealed and waterproofed, applied for decorative purpose on garments, objects and furnishing components and its method of implementation.

Claims

1. A method for the realization of a vegetable component with a protective, waterproofing and washable coating, suitable to be applied on the surface of an article to be decorated, which consists of the following phases: phase 1—Harvesting of the vegetable component; phase 2—Cleaning of the plant component by air jet and/or scrubbing with a damp cloth; phase 3—Drying and ironing: the clean vegetable component is interposed between layers of absorbing material and pressed between heated plates, for example inside a hot press (2) whose top plate (3) is covered with a sheet of paper (4) and bottom plate (5) from a felt cloth (6); phase 4—Stabilising and conservating pressing: the vegetable component is interposed between layers of material with a smooth and absorbent surface, for example sheets of paper (7), exerting pressure on them (8); phase 5—Vacuum coating and sealing with a sealing and protective film: the dehydrated vegetable component is interposed between two layers of film made of impermeable and non-breathable plastic material, for example between two layers of thermo-adhesive polyurethane film, positioned with the liner (9a-10a) towards the outside and with the thermo-adhesive side (9b-10b) towards the inner side in contact with the vegetable component (1) and pressed inside a hot press (2) and then by a rubber roller (11a) manually passed on both sides, or also by a cold-rolling machine (11b).

2. A method according to claim 1 that allows a vegetable component to be subjected to stress caused by washing also in the washing machine, by bending, by friction with other bodies and by stress of compression, traction and/or torsion, without decomposing, leaving unchanged the colouration of the vegetable component and therefore suitable for repeated use.

3. A method according to claim 1 which also allows the application of the plant component on the surface of an article to be decorated by the following step: phase 6—Application on the surface of the article to be decorated: the waterproofed vegetable component is then applied to the surface of the article to be decorated, for example a t-shirt (13), by means of a glue, for example a thermo-adhesive film (12) which is made to adhere to the film (10a-10b) placed on the underside of the plant component by hot pressing after removing the liner (10a); then, after removing the excess of the coating, the whole material is applied to the surface of the t-shirt (13) by hot pressing and the liner is removed (9a); together with or as an alternative to using the adhesive (12) a perimeter seam is made at the edges of the coating of the plan component after removing both liners (9a-10a).

4. A vegetable component, such as a leaf of hemp (1), with a protective, waterproofing and washable coating consisting of a plastic polymeric film, such as a thermo-adhesive polyurethane film, obtained by the procedure referred to in the preceding claims.

5. A vegetable component according to claim 4 consisting of a leaf of hemp (1) or a leaf of any plant, a flower, a petal, the exocarp of a fruit, therefore any whole plant component or part of it.

6. A vegetable component, according to all previous claims, applied for decorative purposes on the fabric of a t-shirt (13) or on any type of fabric, animal or vegetable skin, skin-like, non-woven fabric, fabric composed of natural fibres and/or chemical fibres and on any object, such as clothing, fashion accessories, furnishing components, everyday household and industrial articles.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0028] Further characteristics and advantages of this invention will be clarified by the indicative and not restrictive description of a first form of product realized by the relevant method, which sees a leaf of hemp applied on a t-shirt for decorative purpose. For simplicity, the following description of the phases that make up the method (Phase 1 to Phase 6), as described above, allowing the application hemp leaf on a fabric surface, will be defined Method; the vegetable component used in this case, therefore the hemp leaf (1), will be called only Leaf.

[0029] FIG. 1—shows Phase 3 “drying and ironing”. The figure consists of two images:

[0030] The image 1A shows the Leaf (1), which is placed—after being collected, washed and polished—inside a hot press (2) consisting of two plates, the upper one (3) covered by a sheet of paper (4) and the lower one (5) covered with a felt cloth (6); the image 1B shows the hot press (2) in operation.

[0031] FIG. 2—shows Phase 4 “stabilizer and conservative pressing”. The figure is composed of two images: the image 2A shows that the dehydrated Leaf (1) is interposed between sheets of paper (7) inside a press (8); the image 2B shows the press (8) in operation.

[0032] FIG. 3—shows Phase 5 “Vacuum coating and sealing with waterproofing and protective film”, in which the Leaf (1) is placed between two layers of adhesive film, placing the adhesive side (9b-10b) to contact with Leaf surface and side lined with liner (9a-10a) towards the outside.

[0033] FIG. 4—shows Phase 5 “Vacuum coating and sealing with waterproofing and protective film”. The figure is composed of two images: image 4A shows hot-pressing (2) and roller passage (11a) which occurs immediately after pressing; image 4B shows the use of a cold rolling machine (11b) as an alternative the use of the rubber roller.

[0034] FIG. 5—shows Phase 6 “Application on the surface of the article to be decorated”. FIG. 5 is composed of two images: the image 5A shows the removal of the film liner (10a) adhesive on the underside of the Leaf; the image 5B shows the application of a layer of adhesive in thermo-adhesive film format (12), the which is adhered to on the underside from which we removed the liner, repeating the operations of hot pressing and roller passage referred to in FIG. 4.

[0035] FIG. 6—shows Phase 6 “Application on surface of article to decorate”. The image shows the removal, using scissors, of the excess part of the heat-adhesive film incorporating the Leaf (1), maintaining the coating of a few millimetres protruding around to the perimeter of it.

[0036] FIG. 7—shows Phase 6 “Application on the surface of the article to be decorated”. The image shows the application of the coated Leaf on the surface of the article to be decorated which in the figure is represented by a t-shirt (13), using the hot press, and shows the removal of the liner (9a) immediately after the pressing.

[0037] FIG. 8 shows Phase 6 “Application on the surface of the article to be decorated”. The image shows the application of the coated Leaf on the surface of the t-shirt (13) by a seam made along the perimeter of the lining having already removed both liners (9a-10a).