Glass panel with simulated metal strip
AssigneeGlass Unlimited of High Point, Inc.
InventorKeith L. Eichhorn
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Abstract
A glass panel having a simulated metal strip applied thereto in a decorative pattern, and a method for making a glass panel having a simulated metal strip applied thereto in a decorative pattern, including a flat panel of glass, a raised bead of air-curable acrylic resin applied in a prescribed pattern to at least one surface of the flat panel of glass, and a metal film overlying the bead of acrylic resin.
Claims19
A glass panel having a simulated metal strip applied thereto in a decorative pattern, comprising:
- (a) a flat panel of glass having an outer surface and an inner surface;
- (b) a raised bead of air-curable acrylic resin applied in a prescribed pattern to at least one of said outer and inner surfaces of said glass panel;
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- (c) a metal film overlying said bead of acrylic resin.
The glass panel of claim I for use in interior environments wherein said raised bead of acrylic resin is about 2.0 mm to about 5.0 mm in width and about 0.8 mm to about 1.1 mm in height.
A decorative window or door, comprising:
- (a) a peripheral support frame having a pair of opposed spaced apart side walls and a pair of opposed spaced apart end walls;
- (b) a glass panel secured and supported by said frame, having:
- (i) a flat panel of glass having an outer surface and an inner surface;
- (ii) a raised bead of air-curable acrylic resin applied in a prescribed pattern to at least one of said outer and inner surfaces of said glass panel;
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- (iii) a metal film overlying said bead of acrylic resin, wherein said metal film simulates a metal strip.
A method for making a glass panel having a simulated metal strip applied thereto in a decorative pattern, comprising:
- (a) applying with an X-Y plotter a raised bead of air-curable acrylic resin in a prescribed pattern to a flat glass window or door panel surface;
- (b) air curing said acrylic resin;
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- (c) applying a metal film to said raised bead of acrylic resin at a temperature sufficient to bond said metal film to said raised bead of acrylic resin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.