Process for the superficial decoration of objects made of transparent vitreous material

• US 6,103,384 A
• Filed: 02/16/1999
• Issued: 08/15/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Spinelli Mario
• Original Assignee: Spinelli Mario
• Inventors: Mario, Spinelli
• Primary Examiner(s): PARKER, FREDERICK JOHN
• Application Number:
  US09/250,723
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 427/250, 427/255.11, 427/269, 427/294, 427/585, 427/419.1, 427/166, 428/433, 428/432, 65/446
• US Class Current: 428/433
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/38 at least one coating being a coating of an organic material

Abstract

The surface to be decorated, which will be visible through the vitreous material, is treated with a primer 7 which may be colored; the object is then placed in a bell in which a high vacuum can be produced, and there undergoes metallization 9; and the metallized surface of the object is then covered with a barrier.

Claims

1. A process for superficial decoration of objects, comprising the steps of:

providing an object made of transparent vitreous material with a surface to be decorated which will be visible through the vitreous material;

treating the surface to be decorated with an aniline primer to provide a treated object;

drying the treated object to provide a dried treated object;

placing the dried treated object in an environment capable of achieving a vacuum required to carry out metallization and subjecting the dried treated object to metallization in the environment to deposit metal particles on the dried treated object.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the aniline primer is a colored aniline primer.

3. The process according to claim 2, wherein the aniline primer is gold-colored.

4. The process according to claim 1, wherein said metallization is done with aluminum to produce silvering on a rear surface of the object.

5. The process according to claim 2, wherein said metallization is done with aluminum to produce silvering on a rear surface of the object.

6. The process according to claim 3, wherein said metallization is done with aluminum to produce silvering on a rear surface of the object.

7. The process according to claim 1, wherein the object is closed in the environment, the environment is evacuated and the object is struck with an approximately 5,000-volt ion discharge.

8. The process according to claim 2, wherein the object is closed in the environment, the environment is evacuated and the object is struck with an approximately 5000-volt ion discharge.

9. The process according to claim 3, wherein the object is closed in the environment, the environment is evacuated and the object is struck with an approximately 5000-volt ion discharge.

10. The process according to claim 4, wherein the object is closed in the environment, the environment is evacuated and the object is struck with an approximately 5000-volt ion discharge.

11. The process according to claim 10, wherein said step of metallization provides the object with a metallized surface and said process further comprising:

coating said metallized surface of the object with a barrier; and

drying said barrier.

12. The process according to claim 2, wherein said step of metallization provides the object with a metallized surface and said process further comprising:

coating said metallized surface of the object with a barrier; and

drying said barrier.

13. The process according to claim 3, wherein said step of metallization provides the object with a metallized surface and said process further comprising:

coating said metallized surface of the object with a barrier; and

drying said barrier.

14. The process according to claim 11, wherein said step of coating with a barrier includes spray coating the metallized surface of the object with a transparent barrier and said step of drying said barrier includes treating the metallized and coated surface of the object in a drier at a temperature of about 60°

C. for a minute or long enough to dry said barrier.

15. A decorated glass object, comprising:

a transparent vitreous material substrate;

a layer of aniline primer on a surface of said substrate;

a metallization layer on said primer.

16. The decorated object according to claim 15, wherein said aniline primer is colored.

17. The decorated object according to claim 16, wherein said aniline primer is gold-colored.

18. The decorated object according to claim 15, wherein said metallization layer is an aluminum layer.

19. The decorated object according to claim 16, wherein said metallization layer is an aluminum layer.