EP0022304A1 - Electric lamp having a partly mirrored lamp envelope - Google Patents
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- EP0022304A1 EP0022304A1 EP80200654A EP80200654A EP0022304A1 EP 0022304 A1 EP0022304 A1 EP 0022304A1 EP 80200654 A EP80200654 A EP 80200654A EP 80200654 A EP80200654 A EP 80200654A EP 0022304 A1 EP0022304 A1 EP 0022304A1
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- H01K1/28—Envelopes; Vessels
- H01K1/32—Envelopes; Vessels provided with coatings on the walls; Vessels or coatings thereon characterised by the material thereof
- H01K1/325—Reflecting coating
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- the invention relates to an electric lamp having a sealed vacuum-tight glass lamp envelope through the wall of which current supply conductors to an electric element accommodated in the lamp envelope pass to the exterior where they are attached to a lamp cap connected to the lamp envelope, the wall of said lamp envelope being provided with a metal reflecting layer over a part of its inner surface.
- Such lamps are generally known, inter alia from United States Patent Specification 2,070,700 and are commercially available.
- the lamps are incandescent lamps in which either the part of the lamp envelope opposite to the lamp cap or a part of the lamp envelope situated near the lamp cap is mirrored.
- bowl-mirrored lamps in which a spherical or substantially spherical part of the lamp envelope is mirrored and which are used in a reflector to obtain a narrow light beam; in the latter case we have mirrored lamps which produce a comparatively narrow light beam without further optical auxiliary means.
- ring mirror lamps having a blown lamp envelope the mirrored part of which is usually curved paraboloidally, and lamps from pressed glass the lamp envelope of which consists of a paraboloidal cup which is closed with a cover glass.
- lamps having a gold coloured mirror have been manufactured by vapour-depositing alternately copper and silver or aluminium.
- said materials must be vapour-deposited in very thin layers which are each not completely dense, that is they do not have a uniform optical density throughout their surface so that several layer pairs must be provided so as to obtain the desired effect. This makes the manufacture of the lamps time-consuming and expensive.
- this object is achieved in that the metal layer is silver coloured and that at least that part of the lamp envelope which is provided with the metal layer has a transparent smoke-colour.
- the inner surface, the outer surface or the inner and outer surface of the lamp envelope has a transparent, smoke-coloured layer.
- the mirror layer is present on the colour layer.
- a smoke-coloured layer on the outer surface of the lamp envelope has the advantage that only one type of lamp need be manufactured of which a number may be provided with a coloured layer, as required, at the end of the production process, whereas the remaining lamps can be sold as silvered lamps.
- the colour layer may consist of a smoke-coloured enamel or of a smoke-coloured lacquer.
- a lacquer are to be considered in particular silicone lacquers due to their stability at higher temperatures. They can easily be provided by spraying or dipping while diluted with solvents or be provided in an electrostatic coating process.
- bowl mirrored lamps in which the part of the lamp envelope situated opposite to the lamp cap is mirrored, it will nearly always suffice to colour the mirrored wall portion, for example, by providing a colour layer on the outside of the lamp envelope.
- bowl mirrored lamps When placed in a luminaire, bowl mirrored lamps hardly ever give the occasion of observing the inside of the mirror. Such a lamp gives the impression of having a gold mirror. Lamps having a gold mirror give light of a warmer tinge than lamps having a silver-coloured mirror. If it is desired for lamps according to the invention also to emit light of a warmer tinge, the window of the lamp envelope through which the light emanates is also provided with a smoke-coloured layer.
- the window of the lamp envelope is preferably also coloured so as to give them a universal application as imitation gold mirror lamps.
- the measure used in lamps according to the invention is particularly suitable for incandescent lamps in which the electric element is a filament but is also suitable for discharge lamps in which the electric element is a pair of electrodes in an ionisable gas, usually enveloped by a discharge vessel.
- the lamp envelope 1 is provided with a silver layer 4 over its part 2 situated opposite to the lamp cap 3.
- Part 2 is coated on its outside with a transparent smoke-coloured iron oxide-containing enamel layer 5.
- a filament 6 is accommodated between current supply conductors 7 and 8 which are connected to the lamp cap 3. Between its ends the filament 6 is supported by wires 9.
- the lamp in Fig. 2 has a bipartite lamp envelope 20, 21 of pressed glass.
- the paraboloidal part 20 is covered with an aluminium layer 22 and is made of smoke-coloured glass.
- the cover glass 21 is of colourless pressed glass.
- Connected to the lamp envelope is a lamp cap 23 from which current supply conductors 24 and 25 extend to a high pressure sodium vapour discharge vessel 26.
- the lamp envelope 30 in Fig. 3 has a paraboloidally curved lamp envelope part 31 which is covered with an aluminium layer 32.
- a filament which is hidden from view by the mirror 32 is supported by wires 37 and provided with current by current supply conductors 38 which are connected to the lamp cap 35.
- Lamps as shown in Fig. 3 having a lamp envelope with a largest diameter of 63 mm had an aluminium mirror vapour-deposited in a vacuum.
- the lamp envelope was dipped in a bath of
- the lacquer was then dried at approximately 40°C for 5 minutes and baked at 300°C for 3 minutes.
- the orange dye solution used was:
- the lacquer provided the lamp with a brown-grey to yellow-grey colour.
- the lamps were tested for life. A very good colour stability was found. The lamps consumed a power of 40 W at 220 V.
- Zapon echt and “Neozapon” are registered trade marks of BASF: They denote azodyes with complex bound chromium, copper and cobalt.
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- The invention relates to an electric lamp having a sealed vacuum-tight glass lamp envelope through the wall of which current supply conductors to an electric element accommodated in the lamp envelope pass to the exterior where they are attached to a lamp cap connected to the lamp envelope, the wall of said lamp envelope being provided with a metal reflecting layer over a part of its inner surface.
- Such lamps are generally known, inter alia from United States Patent Specification 2,070,700 and are commercially available. Usually the lamps are incandescent lamps in which either the part of the lamp envelope opposite to the lamp cap or a part of the lamp envelope situated near the lamp cap is mirrored. In the former case we have bowl-mirrored lamps in which a spherical or substantially spherical part of the lamp envelope is mirrored and which are used in a reflector to obtain a narrow light beam; in the latter case we have mirrored lamps which produce a comparatively narrow light beam without further optical auxiliary means. Among these latter lamps are ring mirror lamps having a blown lamp envelope the mirrored part of which is usually curved paraboloidally, and lamps from pressed glass the lamp envelope of which consists of a paraboloidal cup which is closed with a cover glass.
- For mirroring a part of a lamp envelope, aluminium or silver is frequently used due to the high coefficient of reflection of said metals, or chromium is used. Since much wood and leather is used in the present-day interiors, lamps having silver coloured, aluminium, silver, or chromium, mirrors are out of keeping in such interiors. Bowl mirrored lamps are nearly always mounted so as to be visible, while ring mirror lamps and pressed glass lamps are frequently used in luminaires only surrounding the lamp cap of the lamps.
- In order to remove the optically cold impression of mirrored lamps, such lamps are therefore provided with a gold coloured mirror. However, the disadvantage of the use of gold is a high cost price and a poor adhesion of said metal to glass, so that after a small number of hours in operation a crackled effect is already obtained which adversely influences the concentrating effect of the mirror.
- Other commercially available lamps having a gold coloured mirror have been manufactured by vapour-depositing alternately copper and silver or aluminium. For the benefit of a good adhesion said materials must be vapour-deposited in very thin layers which are each not completely dense, that is they do not have a uniform optical density throughout their surface so that several layer pairs must be provided so as to obtain the desired effect. This makes the manufacture of the lamps time-consuming and expensive.
- It is the object of the invention to provide mirror lamps in which on the one hand the disadvantage of silver-coloured mirrors is avoided and on the other hand the disadvantages of the use of gold or imitation gold mirrors are avoided.
- In electric lamps of the kind described in the opening paragraph this object is achieved in that the metal layer is silver coloured and that at least that part of the lamp envelope which is provided with the metal layer has a transparent smoke-colour.
- In an embodiment of a lamp in accordance with the invention this has been realised by manufacturing the lamp envelope entirely or partly from smoke-coloured glass.
- In another embodiment, however, the inner surface, the outer surface or the inner and outer surface of the lamp envelope has a transparent, smoke-coloured layer. When only the inner surface has such a layer, the mirror layer, of course, is present on the colour layer. A smoke-coloured layer on the outer surface of the lamp envelope has the advantage that only one type of lamp need be manufactured of which a number may be provided with a coloured layer, as required, at the end of the production process, whereas the remaining lamps can be sold as silvered lamps.
- The colour layer may consist of a smoke-coloured enamel or of a smoke-coloured lacquer. As a lacquer are to be considered in particular silicone lacquers due to their stability at higher temperatures. They can easily be provided by spraying or dipping while diluted with solvents or be provided in an electrostatic coating process.
- In bowl mirrored lamps in which the part of the lamp envelope situated opposite to the lamp cap is mirrored, it will nearly always suffice to colour the mirrored wall portion, for example, by providing a colour layer on the outside of the lamp envelope. When placed in a luminaire, bowl mirrored lamps hardly ever give the occasion of observing the inside of the mirror. Such a lamp gives the impression of having a gold mirror. Lamps having a gold mirror give light of a warmer tinge than lamps having a silver-coloured mirror. If it is desired for lamps according to the invention also to emit light of a warmer tinge, the window of the lamp envelope through which the light emanates is also provided with a smoke-coloured layer.
- In lamps in which a part of the lamp envelope which is situated closer to the lamp cap is mirrored, it will also suffice to colour the mirrored wall part. However, these lamps may also be used so that the inside of the metal mirror can also be observed. Therefore, in this type of lamps the window of the lamp envelope is preferably also coloured so as to give them a universal application as imitation gold mirror lamps.
- In order to make a silver-coloured, silver, aluminium or chromium, mirror gold coloured, a slightly coloured coating layer or a slightly coloured glass is sufficient. A small series of tests will enable the expert to determine the desired colour and colour intensity.
- The measure used in lamps according to the invention is particularly suitable for incandescent lamps in which the electric element is a filament but is also suitable for discharge lamps in which the electric element is a pair of electrodes in an ionisable gas, usually enveloped by a discharge vessel.
- Embodiments of lamps according to the invention are shown in the drawing. In the drawing
- Fig. 1 is an elevation, partly broken away, of a bowl mirrored incandescent lamps;
- Fig. 2 is an elevation partly broken away of a pressed glass discharge lamp;
- Fig. 3 is an elevation partly broken away of a ring mirror incandescent lamp.
- In Fig. 1, the lamp envelope 1 is provided with a
silver layer 4 over itspart 2 situated opposite to the lamp cap 3.Part 2 is coated on its outside with a transparent smoke-coloured iron oxide-containingenamel layer 5. Afilament 6 is accommodated betweencurrent supply conductors filament 6 is supported bywires 9. - The lamp in Fig. 2 has a
bipartite lamp envelope paraboloidal part 20 is covered with analuminium layer 22 and is made of smoke-coloured glass. Thecover glass 21 is of colourless pressed glass. Connected to the lamp envelope is alamp cap 23 from whichcurrent supply conductors vapour discharge vessel 26. - The
lamp envelope 30 in Fig. 3 has a paraboloidally curvedlamp envelope part 31 which is covered with analuminium layer 32.Lamp envelope part 31, like window 33 and the neck-shaped part 34 of the lamp envelope, to which alamp cap 35 is secured, is covered with a smoke-colouredlacquer layer 36. A filament which is hidden from view by themirror 32 is supported bywires 37 and provided with current bycurrent supply conductors 38 which are connected to thelamp cap 35. - Lamps as shown in Fig. 3 having a lamp envelope with a largest diameter of 63 mm had an aluminium mirror vapour-deposited in a vacuum. The lamp envelope was dipped in a bath of
- 68 g of silicone resin
- 2.1 g of orange dye solution
- 8 g of black dye solution
- 16.2 ml of xylene
- 3.2 ml of diacetone alcohol
- 2.1 ml of ethyl glycol acetate.
- The lacquer was then dried at approximately 40°C for 5 minutes and baked at 300°C for 3 minutes. In a particular case the orange dye solution used was:
- 500 g of zapon echt orange G
- 4.4 1 of ethanol
- 6.4 1 of ethyl glycol acetate
- and as a black dye solution:
- 500 g of Neozapon black R.E.
- 4.4 1 of ethanol
- 6.4 1 of ethyl glycol acetate.
- The lacquer provided the lamp with a brown-grey to yellow-grey colour.
- The lamps were tested for life. A very good colour stability was found. The lamps consumed a power of 40 W at 220 V.
- "Zapon echt" and "Neozapon" are registered trade marks of BASF: They denote azodyes with complex bound chromium, copper and cobalt.
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NL7905367A NL7905367A (en) | 1979-07-10 | 1979-07-10 | ELECTRIC LAMP WITH A MIRRORED LAMP BARREL. |
NL7905367 | 1979-07-10 |
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EP0022304A1 true EP0022304A1 (en) | 1981-01-14 |
EP0022304B1 EP0022304B1 (en) | 1982-10-06 |
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EP (1) | EP0022304B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPS5613661A (en) |
CA (1) | CA1155901A (en) |
DE (1) | DE3060917D1 (en) |
NL (1) | NL7905367A (en) |
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EP0141402A2 (en) * | 1983-11-08 | 1985-05-15 | Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft für elektrische Glühlampen mbH | Method for the manufacturing of an electric incandescent lamp |
FR2565029A1 (en) * | 1984-05-22 | 1985-11-29 | Gen Electric | REFLECTOR LAMP COMPRISING AN IMPROVED COLLAR FOR INCREASING ITS USEFUL LIGHT FLOW |
EP0195317A2 (en) * | 1985-03-13 | 1986-09-24 | General Electric Company | R Lamp having an improved dome portion for increasing the useful light output |
EP0237104A1 (en) * | 1986-03-11 | 1987-09-16 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Blown lamp bulb and electric lamp provided with such a bulb |
EP0241987A1 (en) * | 1986-04-16 | 1987-10-21 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Electric lamp having a mirror-coated lamp vessel |
US4803394A (en) * | 1987-02-25 | 1989-02-07 | U.S. Philips Corporation | Lamp vessel for multiple lamp types |
WO1997015945A2 (en) * | 1995-10-24 | 1997-05-01 | Philips Electronics N.V. | Reflector lamp |
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US2901655A (en) * | 1955-11-10 | 1959-08-25 | Gen Electric | Reflecting electric lamp |
FR2256531A1 (en) * | 1973-12-26 | 1975-07-25 | Lampes Elect Fab Reunies | Electric bulb with silvered cap - light is doubly reflected before hitting socket |
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US2070700A (en) * | 1934-11-17 | 1937-02-16 | Welsbach Street Lighting Compa | Illumination |
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US2901655A (en) * | 1955-11-10 | 1959-08-25 | Gen Electric | Reflecting electric lamp |
FR2256531A1 (en) * | 1973-12-26 | 1975-07-25 | Lampes Elect Fab Reunies | Electric bulb with silvered cap - light is doubly reflected before hitting socket |
Cited By (10)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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EP0141402A2 (en) * | 1983-11-08 | 1985-05-15 | Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft für elektrische Glühlampen mbH | Method for the manufacturing of an electric incandescent lamp |
EP0141402A3 (en) * | 1983-11-08 | 1986-02-12 | Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft Fur Elektrische Gluhlampen Mbh | Electric incandescent lamp and method for its manufacture |
FR2565029A1 (en) * | 1984-05-22 | 1985-11-29 | Gen Electric | REFLECTOR LAMP COMPRISING AN IMPROVED COLLAR FOR INCREASING ITS USEFUL LIGHT FLOW |
EP0195317A2 (en) * | 1985-03-13 | 1986-09-24 | General Electric Company | R Lamp having an improved dome portion for increasing the useful light output |
EP0195317A3 (en) * | 1985-03-13 | 1988-11-17 | General Electric Company | R lamp having an improved dome portion for increasing the useful light output |
EP0237104A1 (en) * | 1986-03-11 | 1987-09-16 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Blown lamp bulb and electric lamp provided with such a bulb |
EP0241987A1 (en) * | 1986-04-16 | 1987-10-21 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Electric lamp having a mirror-coated lamp vessel |
US4803394A (en) * | 1987-02-25 | 1989-02-07 | U.S. Philips Corporation | Lamp vessel for multiple lamp types |
WO1997015945A2 (en) * | 1995-10-24 | 1997-05-01 | Philips Electronics N.V. | Reflector lamp |
WO1997015945A3 (en) * | 1995-10-24 | 1997-06-05 | Philips Electronics Nv | Reflector lamp |
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DE3060917D1 (en) | 1982-11-11 |
EP0022304B1 (en) | 1982-10-06 |
NL7905367A (en) | 1981-01-13 |
JPS5613661A (en) | 1981-02-10 |
CA1155901A (en) | 1983-10-25 |
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