Artificial stones

Abstract

Artificial stones from finely divided glass fragments and artificial resins and having a great similarity to natural stones under optical, weight-related and tactile-esthetical aspects consist of 15 to 30% by weight of a transparent cured or thermoplastically deformed synthetic resin which may be dyed, 10 to 80% by weight of white, green, brown or mixed fragmented and/or granulated waste glass of grain sizes of from 0.05 to 3 mm, 0 to 40% by weight of transparent, opaque or strongly colored fragmented and/or granulated new glass having grain sizes of from 0.05 to 3 mm, 0 to 75% by weight of transparent, opaque or strongly colored ground material having grain sizes of from 0.05 to 3 mm, produced from 80 to 92 parts by weight of waste glass having grain sizes of from 0.05 to 0.3 mm and 8 to 20 parts by weight of curable synthetic resin, 0 to 35% by weight of inorganic fillers selected from the group of silica sand, quartz meal, stone meal, natural or synthetic ground and/or granulated silicates having grain sizes from 0.05 to 3 mm, and 0 to 0.5% by weight of dyes and colored pigments.

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