Saint-Gobain Vitrage International

Saint-Gobain Industries

Isover Saint-Gobain

Jean-Jacques Massol

Pedro Alvarez Casariego

Jean A Battigelli

Francois Bouquet

Igor Fezenko

Pedro C Alvarez

Pierre Combes

A glazing set mounted on an automobile vehicle, containing a wind screen, front side windows, rear side windows and a rear window, wherein each of the rear side windows and the rear window contain a glazing pane containing a colored glass sheet having a thickness of from about 2 to 8 millimeters, the colored glass sheet have a composition containing, in part, Fe O , FeO, CoO, Se and Sr O as colorants, the glasses having a total energy transmission factor which is less than the light transmission factor thereof.

Glazing set mounted on an automobile containing a colored glass

A colored glass composition, containing the following oxides within the following limits by weight:

Composition for colored glass intended for the manufacture of glazing

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.sub.E) less than the light transmission factor under illuminant A (TL.sub.A), the factor T.sub.E being from 10 to 48% and the factor TL.sub.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 Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 (total iron), from 0.001 to 0.02% of CoO, from 0 to 0.0025% of Se and from 0 to 0.1% of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3.

The invention concerns compositions of colored 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.sub.E) less than the light transmission factor under illuminant A (TL.sub.A), the factor T.sub.E being from 10 to 48% and the factor TL.sub.A from 20 to 60 % for a thickness of 3.85 mm; these glasses comprise (in % by weight), as coloring agents, from 0.45 to 2.5% of Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 (total iron), from 0.001 to 0.02% of CoO, from 0 to 0.0025% of Se and from 0 to 0.1% of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3.

The invention relates to a colored glass composition for producing glazings for use, e.g., as automobile sunroofs. The colored glass according to the invention is a soda-lime-silica glass comprising, as coloring agents, 1.4 to 4% iron oxide expressed as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 and 0 to 0.05% cobalt oxide, with the cobalt oxide exceeding about 0.02% when the Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 is below about 2% and, optionally, selenium and chromium oxide, whereby the sum of the CoO+Se+Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 is preferably less than about 0.24% by weight. The glass of the invention has a total light transmission factor under illuminant A equal to or below approximately 20% and a total energy transmission factor equal to or below approximately 12% for a thickness of 3.85 mm.

Colored glass compositions and glazings produced therewith

Glass fibers are disclosed, the fibers being formed of a glass composition containing the following ingredients in the weight percentages indicated below:

Glass fibers for the reinforcement of cement

In the technique for fiberizing glass by the use of a centrifugal spinner delivering glass streams into an attenuating blast, a novel spinner construction is provided, and provision is also made for increasing the production, while also providing for the use of glass of lower cost, and at the same time, reducing environmental pollution. Glass compositions and spinner alloy compositions particularly suited for use in accordance with the invention, are also disclosed.

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Asnieres, France

Jean-Jacques Massol