Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.

Takashi Sakane

Takehiro Shibuya

Yoshio Hashibe

Masanori Moritake

Yasuhiro Baba

Takahiro Matano

Shigeharu Nakamura

A crystallized glass article having a surface pattern like granite, marble or other natural stones with a line pattern of a desired color or colors, which is formed by fusion bonding small masses of a crystallizable glass material mixed with inorganic pigment powder at a heat-treating temperature higher than the softening point. The surface pattern comprises crystallized glass areas defined by the small masses in the surface layer of the article and the colored line pattern defined by the pigment dispersed in the interfaces between adjacent ones of the small masses in the surface layer.

Colored crystallized glass article and method for producing the same

In a crystallized glass article consisting of crystallized glass masses fusion bonded together and having a principal surface, said principal surface having a surface pattern determined by said masses in a surface layer including said principal surface, said small crystallized glass masses in said surface layer are mainly of flaky crystallized glass pieces, each being a relatively large flattened piece, said flaky pieces overlapping one another at random to make said principal surface rough, said crystallized glass masses in another layer adjacent to and fused to said surface layer being considerably smaller than said flaky pieces. The article is produced by preparing flaky pieces and the smaller masses both of a SiO.sub.2 --Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 --CaO crystallizable glass, putting the former pieces on a bottom of a mold to form a flaky-piece layer, then putting the latter masses on the flaky-piece layer to form a small-mass layer, and heat treating the both layers at a temperature higher than a softening point of the crystallizable glass to fusion bond the pieces and masses together as well as crystallizing the glass.

Crystallized glass article having an irregular rough surface pattern and

A crystallized glass article with a colored surface pattern, which comprises a crystallized glass substrate having a surface and small glass masses having a color different from the substrate and dispersed and fusion-bonded in the surface to form the colored surface pattern. The crystallized glass article is produced by depositing and dispersing small glass masses with a color on a surface of a substrate of a crystallizable glass with a different color which can precipitate crystals therein with softening and deforming by heat-treating at a heat treating temperature higher than the softening point of the crystallizable glass, then heating the substrate together with the small glass masses at the heat treating temperature.

Crystallized glass article with colored small masses dispersed in a

A crystallized glass article formed of discrete small bodies of crystallizable glass fusion-bonded together at their interfaces is characterized in that a first layer extending from the article surface to a predetermined depth is non-porous, a predetermined thickness of second layer connected to and beneath the first layer being porous. Each of the small bodies in the first layer has needle-like .beta.-wollastonite crystals extending from the surface of the body to the interior thereof in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the body. Accordingly the article is characterized by a surface pattern defined by small bodies due to the differences of orientation of needle-like .beta.-wollastonite crystals and by a reduced specific gravity.

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Takashi Sakane