Mirror
AssigneeAgc Glass Europe
InventorsLionel Ventelon, Bruno Cosijns, Pierre Boulager, Joseph Leclercq
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing mirrors and to mirrors produced in this manner. The process comprises a step fir forming a silver layer on a surface of a glass substrate, during which said surface is brought into contact with a silvering solution, and a painting step, during which the silver layer is covered by at least one paint layer. It is characterised by the fact that between the step for forming the silver layer and the painting step it comprises a step for reheating the silver layer to a temperature of at least 200° C.
Claims16
A process comprising forming a silver layer on a surface of a glass substrate wherein said surface is brought into contact with a silvering solution, and covering the silver layer with at least one paint layer, wherein between the process of forming the silver layer and the process of covering the silver layer, the silver layer is heated to a temperature of at least 200° C.
A mirror comprising a glass substrate covered by a silver layer, which is itself covered by at least one paint layer, wherein the substrate comprises an upper surface stratum on the side of the silver layer comprising silver, and in that this silver-enriched stratum has a thickness of at least 10 nm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.