Method for making enamel beads and resulting product
OwnerMichael J. Seidel, Kevin L. Dixoninventors
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Abstract
A method of making an enamel bead and resulting bead which includes the provision of a short length of copper tubing forming a bead core member wherein the copper tubing is heated to a red hot state and rolled in copper enamel flux one or more times to coat the tubing following which the flux coated tubing is again heated to a red hot state and rolled in particulate enamel material to coat the tubing externally with enamel material, then heating the enamel material coating until it melts and is distributed throughout the tubing outer surface in the desired bead configuration and finally cooling the enamel coating to form a highly durable bead having a copper tubing core with an outer layer of enamel of a selected color.
Claims9
A method of making enamel beads comprising the steps of,
- providing a tubular core member of metal,
- heating said tubular core member to a glowing state,
- coating the outer surface of said heated core member with an enamel flux plural times,
- heating said flux coated tubular core member to a glowing state,
- applying a particulate enamel material to the outer surface of said flux coated core member while in said heated state,
- heating said particulate enamel material on said core member to a molten state to uniformly distribute said enamel material on said core member thereby forming a bead, and
- cooling said enamel material following the formation of said bead.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.