Method for enclosing an object with a transparent encapsulation
AssigneeStandard Group Holding B.V.
InventorsJohannes Maria Zandvliet, Rene Cornelis Malherbe de Juvigny
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Abstract
A method for enclosing an object with a spherical, transparent encapsulation of glass or like hard and scratch-resistant material includes the following steps, to be performed in suitable sequence, of: providing the object having a degradation temperature; arranging this object in a cavity; providing an encapsulating material around this object which melts at a temperature lower than the degradation temperature; carrying the object by a support of transparent material which melts at a temperature lower than the degradation temperature and which is substantially homogeneously fusable with the encapsulating material; and causing this encapsulating material to cure to a transparent encapsulating mass.
Claims13
A method for wholly enclosing an object with a spherical, transparent encapsulation, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an object which has a degradation temperature;
- (b) arranging the object in a spherical mould cavity, the shape of which corresponds with a desired spherical shape of encapsulation;
- (c) providing a transparent encapsulating material which melts at a melting temperature lower than said degradation temperature;
- (d) causing the encapsulating material to melt by heating and carrying thereof into the mould cavity;
- (e) causing the encapsulating material to cool to below the melting temperature;
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- (f) opening the mould cavity and removing the solidified spherical moulded article,
- wherein prior to step (d) the object is carried by a support including a transparent material which melts at a melting temperature lower than said degradation temperature and which is substantially homogeneously fusable with the encapsulating material during step (d).
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