Devices, systems and methods for use in fabricating doorlites, sidelites, windows, window panes and the like
OwnerThomas Jesse Charlton, Frank Ross Murrayinventors
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Abstract
Artistic panes having flat and planar margins with laterally offset central regions and deformations, as well as devices and methods for making the same, are shown and described. Devices and assemblies for manufacturing such artistic panes incorporate support members and raised boundary members, and can incorporate masses and/or piles of powder to create various deformations in the artistic panes. Methods of manufacturing such artistic panes can incorporate slump processes, sag processes and rolling processes.
Claims26
A method for forming an artistic pane to create a desired visual effect, the method comprising:
- depositing a ceramic-based powder in a pattern on the upper surface of a substrate;
- supporting a sheet of glass on a structural member comprising a refractory material, the sheet of glass being spaced apart from the pattern of ceramic-based powder;
- heating the sheet of glass to a temperature in excess of a thermoplastic temperature for the glass at least until at least a central portion of the sheet of glass deforms into a complex shape onto the ceramic-based powder;
- and
- cooling the sheet of glass to fix the glass in the complex shape.
A method for forming an artistic pane to create a desired visual effect, the method comprising:
- depositing a ceramic-based powder in a pattern on the upper surface of a substrate;
- supporting a sheet of glass spaced apart above the pattern of ceramic-based powder;
- heating the sheet of glass to a temperature in excess of a thermoplastic temperature for the glass at least until at least a central portion of the sheet of glass has deformed into a complex shape on top of the ceramic-based powder;
- cooling the sheet of glass to fix the glass in the complex shape;
- and removing the ceramic-based powder from the sheet of glass.
A method for forming artistic panes to create a desired visual effect, the method comprising:
- placing at least one frame on the upper surface of a substrate, the at least one frame having at least one opening;
- depositing a ceramic-based powder in a pattern on the upper surface of the substrate within the at least one opening of the at least one frame;
- supporting a sheet of glass spaced apart above the pattern of ceramic-based powder;
- heating the sheet of glass to a temperature in excess of a thermoplastic temperature for the glass at least until at least a portion of the sheet of glass has deformed into a complex shape within the opening on top of the ceramic-based powder;
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- cooling the sheet of glass to fix the glass in the complex shape.
A method for forming a plurality of artistic panes having a desired visual effect, the method comprising:
- placing a plurality of frames on the upper surface of a substrate, the frames having a plurality of openings;
- depositing a ceramic-based powder in a pattern on the upper surface of the substrate within the plurality of openings;
- supporting a sheet of glass spaced apart above the pattern of ceramic-based powder;
- heating the sheet of glass to a temperature in excess of a thermoplastic temperature for the glass at least until a portion of the sheet of glass has deformed into a complex shape within the opening on top of the ceramic-based powder;
- cooling the sheet of glass to fix the glass in the complex shape;
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- cutting the sheet of deformed glass into a plurality of panes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.