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.
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.