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Liquid filled sealed glass ornament and method

  • US 4,142,383 A
  • Filed: 08/17/1977
  • Issued: 03/06/1979
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. The method for the fabrication of a decorative object which comprises:

  • (a) providing a hollow clear glass envelope having a decorative portion and having a truncated conical portion with an opening remote from the decorative portion;

    (b) grinding the conical portion of the envelope outside of the opening with a conically shaped rotatable grinder which fits over the conical portion in order to provide a ground surface around the opening;

    (c) injecting a liquid comprising glycerine and clear miscible solvents for glycerine with visible particles therein inside the envelope through the opening without wetting the opening in an amount which leaves only a small gas pocket in the envelope adjacent the opening and above the liquid wherein the index of refraction of the liquid visually approximates that of the glass and wherein the particles appear to float upon agitation in the liquid; and

    (d) bonding a cap over the opening on the ground surface with a resin which is impervious to the liquid with the gas pocket adjacent the opening in order to seal the liquid in the decorative object.

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