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US 6,461,705 B2Granted
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.
Claims7
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 plurality of raised beads of air-curable acrylic resin applied in a prescribed pattern to at least one of said outer and inner surfaces of said glass panel;
- (iii) the raised beads of acrylic resin being substantially rounded in shape, about 2.0 mm to about 5.0 mm in width and rising to a height of at least about 0.8 mm in the central portion thereof;
- (iv) a metal film overlying said beads of acrylic resin;
- (v) the metal covered resin beads defining strips simulating metal molding between separate adjacent pieces of glass.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.