Crystallized glass article having an irregular rough surface pattern and a method for producing the same
US5089345A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 1, 1989 |
| Grant date | Feb 18, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 1, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/252
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
In a crystallized glass article consisting of crystallized glass masses fusion bonded together and having a principal surface, said principal surface having a surface pattern determined by said masses in a surface layer including said principal surface, said small crystallized glass masses in said surface layer are mainly of flaky crystallized glass pieces, each being a relatively large flattened piece, said flaky pieces overlapping one another at random to make said principal surface rough, said crystallized glass masses in another layer adjacent to and fused to said surface layer being considerably smaller than said flaky pieces. The article is produced by preparing flaky pieces and the smaller masses both of a SiO.sub.2 --Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 --CaO crystallizable glass, putting the former pieces on a bottom of a mold to form a flaky-piece layer, then putting the latter masses on the flaky-piece layer to form a small-mass layer, and heat treating the both layers at a temperature higher than a softening point of the crystallizable glass to fusion bond the pieces and masses together as well as crystallizing the glass.
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