ACTIVATOR APPLYING DEVICE, HYDRAULIC TRANSFER APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SAME ACTIVATOR APPLYING DEVICE, AND ARTICLE WITH HYDRAULICALLY TRANSFERRED PATTERN MANUFACTURED WITH THE SAME HYDRAULIC TRANSFER APPARATUS

摘要

[Problem] To develop a novel hydraulic transfer method and active agent coating device achieving the imparting of a desired aesthetic quality to a transfer pattern and the active controlling of the flow of an active agent and the characteristics of an added pigment. [Solution] This active agent coating device is characterized by being equipped with a pan section, which retains an active agent when activating a transfer film, and a coating roller, which, while rotating in the state of being immersed in the active agent in the pan section, coats the active agent adhered to the surface thereof at the immersed section onto a transfer pattern at a separate site, the active agent being supplied to the pan section at a supply quantity exceeding that which is coated onto the transfer pattern, the excess active agent being discharged from a discharge opening of the pan section, the discharge opening being set at a position of streaky irregularities formed by means of the non-uniform dispersion of an added pigment and at the liquid surface side lifting up the active agent from the immersed section, the active agent being thus coated into the transfer pattern.