Glass ceramic or glass body that can be subjected to great thermal loads and is decorated with a color based on a melted silicate containing effect pigments

• US 20070191206A1
• Filed: 05/03/2005
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Schott AG (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung)
• Original Assignee: Schott AG (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung)
• Inventors: Kosmas, Ioannis, Lauterbach, Eva, Cotlear De Witzmann, Monica, Ruhl, Ella, Wennemann, Dietmar, Milanovska, Angelina
• Application Number:
  US10/593,982
• Publication Number:
  US 20070191206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 501/55
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/007 containing a dispersed phase, e.g. particles, fibres or flakes, in a continuous phase
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/04 by fritting glass powder
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2209/02 to produce non-uniformly coloured glazes
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/485 Pigments
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/72 Decorative coatings
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2218/119 by printing
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 8/14 Glass frit mixtures having non-frit additions, e.g. opacifiers, colorants, mill-additions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24926 including ceramic, glass, porcelain or quartz layer

Abstract

The invention relates to a glass ceramic or glass body that can be subjected to great thermal loads and is decorated with a color based on a melted silicate containing effect pigments. In order to reduce the protective look provided by the decoration, the melted silicate contains special effect pigments at a predefined ratio, said special effect pigments producing a color-flopping effect on the decorated glass ceramic of glass body. The human brain is hardly able to perceive the traces of wear as the tint changes according to the angle of vision. Preferably, the color-flopping color is based on a melted silicate to which effect pigments are added at a given ratio in the form of synthetic plane-parallel silicon dioxide (SiO₂) laminae which are coated with metal oxides.

Claims

1. Glass ceramic or glass body that can be subjected to high thermal loads, decorated with a colorant based on a silicate melt containing effect pigments, characterized in that the silicate melt contains a specified amount of special-effect pigments which on the decorated glass ceramic or glass body show a color-flop effect.

2. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the special-effect pigments consist of synthetically produced, plane-parallel silicon dioxide (SiO₂) platelets coated with metal oxides.

3. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 2, characterized in that the special-effect pigments are effect pigments supplied commercially by the Merck company under the tradename Colorstream®

multicolor effect pigments.

4. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 3, characterized in that the effect pigment is one bearing the tradename Colorstream®

Autumn Mystery.

5. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 3, characterized in that the effect pigment is one bearing the tradename Colorstream®

Viola Fantasy.

6. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 3, characterized in that the effect pigment is one bearing the tradename Colorstream®

Arctic Fire.

7. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the silicate melt consists of molten glass.

8. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 7, characterized in that the molten glass has the composition (in weight %):

9. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 1, characterized in that to the silicate melt are added besides the special-effect pigments also common fillers and/or other conventional colored pigments.

10. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the decoration is done by screen printing.

11. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the special-effect pigments amount to 1 to 30 wt. % of the pigments.

12. Glass ceramic or glass body as defined in claim 1 constituting the cooking surface of a cooking area with the decoration on the topside of the cooking surface.