Process for obtaining a decorative mirror
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Glass France
InventorsJuliette Maria, Alexia Yon
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Abstract
A process for obtaining a decorative mirror includes reflective regions forming a pattern and non-reflective regions, the process including providing a sheet of soda-lime-silica glass coated with a reflective coating on the entirety of one of the faces thereof, then applying a composition including a phosphate salt to the reflective coating, solely in application regions, the application regions being intended to become the non-reflective regions, then tempering the glass sheet, in which the glass sheet is subjected to a temperature of at least 550° C., causing the reflective coating to dissolve in the application regions so as to form the non-reflective regions in which the glass sheet is not coated.
Claims12
A process for obtaining a decorative mirror comprising reflective regions forming a pattern and non-reflective regions, said process comprising:
- providing a sheet of soda-lime-silica glass coated with a reflective coating on the entirety of one of the faces thereof, then
- applying a composition comprising a phosphate salt to said reflective coating coated on the glass sheet, solely in application regions, said application regions being intended to become the non-reflective regions, then
- after applying said composition, tempering said glass sheet in a tempering furnace, in which said glass sheet is subjected to a temperature of at least 550° C., said composition comprising a phosphate salt completely dissolving the reflective coating in the application regions during said tempering in the tempering furnace so as to form, after said tempering, said non-reflective regions in which the glass sheet is not coated and a tempered glass sheet comprising said reflective regions and said non-reflective regions,
- wherein the reflective coating comprises at least one functional layer that is a metal layer or a layer of a metal nitride, or
- wherein the reflective coating is an alternating stack of thin high-refractive-index dielectric layers and of thin low-refractive-index dielectric layers.
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