EP0248525A2 - Elément décoratif à facettes - Google Patents

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EP0248525A2
EP0248525A2 EP87303705A EP87303705A EP0248525A2 EP 0248525 A2 EP0248525 A2 EP 0248525A2 EP 87303705 A EP87303705 A EP 87303705A EP 87303705 A EP87303705 A EP 87303705A EP 0248525 A2 EP0248525 A2 EP 0248525A2
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fabrication
faceted
facets
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Errol James Stewart Greenlees
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Priority claimed from GB868611479A external-priority patent/GB8611479D0/en
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F1/00—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects
    • B44F1/08—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects characterised by colour effects
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C3/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
    • B44C3/12—Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F1/00—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects
    • B44F1/02—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects produced by reflected light, e.g. matt surfaces, lustrous surfaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F1/00—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects
    • B44F1/08—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects characterised by colour effects
    • B44F1/10—Changing, amusing, or secret pictures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F3/00—Designs characterised by outlines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F7/00—Designs imitating three-dimensional effects

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  • This invention relates to a decorative unit. It is particularly, though not exclusively, concerned with a decorative unit and is intended for use for promoting a visually distinctive effect in an architectural, commercial, promotional or domestic context.
  • Such a unit is used, for example, in bars and restaurants to display for promotional purposes three dimensional representations of bottles or related subjects in an illuminated array.
  • a decorative unit comprising a faceted fabrication substantially of transparent material. at least two facets being transparent and either at least one facet or an object disposed within the member having a surface coated with a dichroic material, at least one remaining facet being adopted to reflect light within the fabrication; the disposition of the facets being such that when the interior of the fabrication, or an object or image within it is sufficiently illuminated relative to ambient illumination about the fabrication an observer looking into the fabrication by way of a facet sees a plurality of images due to multiple reflection between the facet and other facets reflecting light within the fabrication.
  • the faceted fabrication is a monolithic block of transparent material whether or not including a plenum space therein.
  • the faceted fabrication is made up of at least a pair of juxtaposed transparent members defining therebetween a plenum volume.
  • the faceted fabrication has the majority of the facets transparent and most or all of the transparent facets are coated with dichroic material.
  • the faceted fabrication has a plurality of facets, each facet being in the form of a regular triangle, quadrilateral or polygon.
  • the faceted fabrication house an object or means providing an image such as a video display unit.
  • the member is of glass or plastics material.
  • the fabrication has some or all of its facets covered by a transparent sheet material.
  • 'facet' is used here to cover both a plane surface or a curved one in either case having a boundary serving to link the facet to a neighbouring facet or to some other part of the fabrication of which the facet is a part.
  • a tranparent or tranlucent facet having a layer of certain materials deposited on it can be caused to act as a two way mirror depending on the relative degree of illumination on either side of the layer.
  • a layer of certain materials deposited on it typically a layer with a thickness measured in angstroms deposited by evaporation in vacuum chamber
  • the facet With the illumination on the observers side of the coated facet substantially less than that on the opposite, object or image, side the facet is virtually transparent with the layer freely allowing the passage of incident light to the observer. With the relative levels of illumination reversed, that is to say with the greater illumination on the observers side the observer will see a reflected rather than a transmitted image.
  • a layer of dichroic material imparts a characteristic coloured appearence to transmitted light.
  • the colour tends to vary with differing angles of view since such changes serve to vary the thickness of the layer through which the incident light to the observer passes.
  • the thickness of the layer governs the main colour imparted by the dichroic material to the incident light. With the thinnest layer a bluish colour is obtained. With increasing thickness a colour variation from blue to red can be achieved. If necessary a given facet can have areas of different thickness so providing for the appearence od different colours from different parts of the facet.
  • a layer of titanium or aluminium metal for example differs from a dichroic material layer in that transmitted images are not multicoloured but provide an uncoloured transmitted image regardless of the observer's viewing angle.
  • Figures 1A and 1B show a decorative unit 10 made up of juxtaposed members 11, 12 which define between them a plenum volume 13.
  • Member 11 (member 12 being of identical form) is made up of a plurality of edge linked triangular facets, typically facet 14, each of sheet glass. The facets are joined along their edges by a silicone rubber adhesive.
  • the members 11, 12 are joined in the same way along equator 15 of the unit 10.
  • Figures 2A and 2B show a unit 20 made up of members 21, 22 which each ahve a hexagonal boundary joined at equator 23 and defining plenum volume 24.
  • the members 21, 22 are of identical form and made up of triangular facets (typically facet 25) each with an inner coating of dichroic material.

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  • Illuminated Signs And Luminous Advertising (AREA)
  • Non-Portable Lighting Devices Or Systems Thereof (AREA)
  • Laminated Bodies (AREA)
EP87303705A 1986-04-26 1987-04-27 Elément décoratif à facettes Withdrawn EP0248525A3 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB8610281 1986-04-26
GB868610281A GB8610281D0 (en) 1986-04-26 1986-04-26 Decorative unit
GB8611479 1986-05-10
GB868611479A GB8611479D0 (en) 1986-05-10 1986-05-10 Decorative unit

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EP0248525A2 true EP0248525A2 (fr) 1987-12-09
EP0248525A3 EP0248525A3 (fr) 1988-10-12

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Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0348583A2 (fr) * 1988-06-29 1990-01-03 FORM PLAST S.p.A. Moyens pour produire des effets stéréoscopies et/ou de mouvement ou analogues, en particulier sur des poches, sacoches et emballages en général
FR2635294A1 (fr) * 1988-08-12 1990-02-16 Carpentier Gerard Projecteur de lumiere spectrale solaire a effet decoratif
FR2861016A1 (fr) * 2003-10-09 2005-04-22 Jolie Mariee Co Ltd Unite de decoration manuel et methode de decoration
US7137275B2 (en) 2002-11-04 2006-11-21 Azotic Coating Technology, Inc. Coatings for gemstones and other decorative objects
US7526928B1 (en) 2002-11-04 2009-05-05 Azotic Coating Technology, Inc. Multi-color gemstones and gemstone coating deposition technology
US8431188B2 (en) 2005-02-17 2013-04-30 Suneeta Neogi Abrasion resistant coatings with color component for gemstones and such
US8518532B2 (en) * 2004-12-24 2013-08-27 Baccarat Crystal volume having a decorative dichroic visual effect

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US3391479A (en) * 1965-12-10 1968-07-09 Polaroid Corp Laminations
US4103052A (en) * 1976-03-31 1978-07-25 National Gypsum Company Two-way window grid
US4110393A (en) * 1978-01-23 1978-08-29 Everbrite Electric Signs, Inc. Method of making simulated three-dimensional stained glass objects
US4180930A (en) * 1977-08-19 1980-01-01 Solid Photography Inc. Reflected three dimensional display
US4505959A (en) * 1983-01-04 1985-03-19 Norman Mabie Multi-faceted framed picture
DE3417925A1 (de) * 1984-05-15 1985-11-21 Klaus-Peter 7995 Neukirch Lührs Verfahren zur herstellung von lampenschirmen im tiffany-stil sowie vorrichtung zur durchfuehrung des verfahrens

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3391479A (en) * 1965-12-10 1968-07-09 Polaroid Corp Laminations
US4103052A (en) * 1976-03-31 1978-07-25 National Gypsum Company Two-way window grid
US4180930A (en) * 1977-08-19 1980-01-01 Solid Photography Inc. Reflected three dimensional display
US4110393A (en) * 1978-01-23 1978-08-29 Everbrite Electric Signs, Inc. Method of making simulated three-dimensional stained glass objects
US4505959A (en) * 1983-01-04 1985-03-19 Norman Mabie Multi-faceted framed picture
DE3417925A1 (de) * 1984-05-15 1985-11-21 Klaus-Peter 7995 Neukirch Lührs Verfahren zur herstellung von lampenschirmen im tiffany-stil sowie vorrichtung zur durchfuehrung des verfahrens

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0348583A2 (fr) * 1988-06-29 1990-01-03 FORM PLAST S.p.A. Moyens pour produire des effets stéréoscopies et/ou de mouvement ou analogues, en particulier sur des poches, sacoches et emballages en général
EP0348583A3 (fr) * 1988-06-29 1991-06-05 FORM PLAST S.p.A. Moyens pour produire des effets stéréoscopies et/ou de mouvement ou analogues, en particulier sur des poches, sacoches et emballages en général
FR2635294A1 (fr) * 1988-08-12 1990-02-16 Carpentier Gerard Projecteur de lumiere spectrale solaire a effet decoratif
US7137275B2 (en) 2002-11-04 2006-11-21 Azotic Coating Technology, Inc. Coatings for gemstones and other decorative objects
US7526928B1 (en) 2002-11-04 2009-05-05 Azotic Coating Technology, Inc. Multi-color gemstones and gemstone coating deposition technology
FR2861016A1 (fr) * 2003-10-09 2005-04-22 Jolie Mariee Co Ltd Unite de decoration manuel et methode de decoration
US8518532B2 (en) * 2004-12-24 2013-08-27 Baccarat Crystal volume having a decorative dichroic visual effect
US8431188B2 (en) 2005-02-17 2013-04-30 Suneeta Neogi Abrasion resistant coatings with color component for gemstones and such

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