WATER PRESSURE TRANSFER METHOD AND APPARATUS

PURPOSE:To obtain transfer of high quality and to realize efficient transfer work by a method wherein a film is floated on the surface of water in the absence of air and a solvent is sprayed to the film to activate the paint or ink on the film and an article is pressed to the film in a manner easiest to become a close contact state to be sunk into water and subsequently drawn up. CONSTITUTION:A film is drawn out to be cut and the cut film is sucked by a suction device and suspended in an almost U-shape by reducing the distance between both holders 5a, 5b to be floated on the surfaces of the water in transfer tanks 6a, 6b. The paint or ink on the film is activated by spraying a solvent to be brought to a state easy to come into close contact with the surface of an article and, at the point of time when a definite time is elapsed after the solvent is sprayed, the article is pressed to the film to be sunk into water to apply water pressure transfer to the surface of the article. The article is held in water for a definite time and drawn up at the point of time when the film is perfectly dissolved to be lost and the paint or ink becomes a close contact state and introduced into washing tanks 13a, 13b to remove the bonded excessive film and finally introduced into a finish tank 14 before fed out by a feed-out conveyor 15.