Composition for colored glass intended for the manufacture of glazing panes

• US 5,582,455 A
• Filed: 03/05/1996
• Issued: 12/10/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage International
• Original Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage International
• Inventors: Casariego, Pedro A., Massol, Jean-Jacques
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Mark L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sample, David
• Application Number:
  US08/611,175
• Time in Patent Office: 280 Days
• Field of Search: 501/69, 501/70, 501/71, 296/200, 296/84.1, 296/146.2, 296/146.15
• US Class Current: 296/146.2
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 3/087 containing calcium oxide, e.g. common sheet or container glass
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 4/02 for coloured glass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 501/905 Ultraviolet transmitting or absorbing

Abstract

The invention concerns compositions of coloured glasses intended for the manufacture of glazing panes suitable for mounting in an automobile vehicle. The panes are of silico-sodo-calcic glasses having a total energy transmission factor (T_E) less than the light transmission factor under illuminant A (TL_A), the factor T_E being from 10 to 48% and the factor TL_A from 20 to 60% for a thickness of 3.85 nm; these glasses comprise (in % by weight), as colouring agents, from 0.45 to 2.5% of Fe₂ O₃ (total iron), from 0.001 to 0.02% of CoO, from 0 to 0.0025% of Se and from 0 to 0.1% of Cr₂ O₃.

Claims

1. A glazing set mounted on an automobile vehicle, comprising a windscreen, front side windows and rear side windows and a rear window, wherein each of the rear side windows, both movable and fixed, and the rear window comprise a glazing pane comprising a coloured glass sheet having a thickness of from 2 to 8 millimeters, wherein the coloured glass sheet has a composition comprising the following oxides within the following limits by weight:

space="preserve" listing-type="tabular">______________________________________ SiO.sub.2 64 to 75% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 0 to 5% B.sub.2 O.sub.3 0 to 5% CaO 5 to 15% MgO 0 to 5% Na.sub.2 O 10 to 18% K.sub.2 O 0 to 5% ______________________________________

and, consisting essentially of, as colouring agents;

space="preserve" listing-type="tabular">______________________________________ Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 (total iron) 0.5 to 1.5% with FeO content representing from 16 to 55% of the total iron content expressed in the form of Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 CoO 0.003 to 0.015% Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 0.025 to 0.09% Se 0 to 0.0025% ______________________________________

wherein the glasses have a total energy transmission factor (T_E) less than the light transmission factor under illuminant A (TL_A), the factor T_E being from 10 to 48% and the factor TL_A from 20 to 60% for a thickness of 3.85 millimeters.

2. The glazing set according to claim 1, wherein the rear side windows and the rear window comprise, respectively, panes which, for a given thickness, have different total light transmission factors under illuminant A.

3. The glazing set according to claim 2, wherein the panes forming the rear side windows have, for a thickness of 3.85 mm, a total transmission factor under illuminant A of from 30 to 6%, and the pane forming the rear window has, for the same thickness, a total transmission factor under illuminant A of from 20 to 45%.