Dark gray colored glass

• US 5,905,047 A
• Filed: 03/20/1997
• Issued: 05/18/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1996
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited (AGC, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited (AGC, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kijima, Takashi, Sasage, Mizuki
• Primary Examiner(s): MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A
• Application Number:
  US08/821,299
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: 501/71, 501/904, 501/905, 428/426, 428/432, 428/701, 428/702
• US Class Current: 501/71
• 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: C03C 4/082 for infrared absorbing glass
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 4/085 for ultraviolet absorbing glass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 501/904 Infrared transmitting or absorbing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 501/905 Ultraviolet transmitting or absorbing

Abstract

A dark gray colored glass comprising 100 parts by weight of a soda lime silicate glass as a matrix component and coloring components consisting essentially of from 0.8 to 1.5 parts by weight of total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃, from 0.1 to 0.3 part by weight of FeO, from 0 to 1.0 part by weight of TiO₂, from 0.0005 to 0.015 part by weight of Se, from 0.02 to 0.05 part by weight of CoO and from 0.002 to 0.05 part by weight of Cr₂ O₃.

Claims

1. A dark gray colored glass comprising 100 parts by weight of a soda lime silicate glass as a matrix component and coloring components consisting essentially of from 0.8 to 1 parts by weight of total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃, from 0.1 to 0.3 part by weight of FeO, from 0 to 1.0 part by weight of TiO₂, from 0.0005 to 0.15 part by weight of Se, from 0.021 to 0.05 part by weight of CoO and from 0.002 to 0.05 part by weight of Cr₂ O₃ wherein the glass with a thickness of from 3 to 5 mm has an excitation purity of at most 7%, as measured by using illuminant C

and wherein the glass with a thickness of 5 mm has a visible light transmittance of at most 20% and a solar radiation transmittance of at most 20% as measured using illuminant A.

2. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein a proportion of ferrous iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃ in the total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃ is from 10 to 30%.

3. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein the glass with a thickness of 5 mm has an ultraviolet ray transmittance of at most 10%.

4. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein the glass with a thickness of from 3 to 5 mm has a dominant wavelength of from 490 to 580 nm, as measured by using illuminant C.

5. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein the soda lime silicate glass comprises from 65 to 75 wt % of SiO₂, from 0.1 to 5 wt % of Al₂ O₃, from 10 to 18 wt % of Na₂ O+K₂ O, from 5 to 15 wt % of CaO and from 1 to 6 wt % of MgO.

6. A glass sheet which is made of the dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, and which has a thickness of from 2.6 to 6 mm.

7. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein the amount of Cr₂ O₃ is from 0.002 to 0.015 part by weight.

8. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein said glass does not contain NiO.

9. The dark gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein said glass does not contain NiS.