EP1694155B1 - Edelstein mit facetten - Google Patents

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EP1694155B1
EP1694155B1 EP03782009A EP03782009A EP1694155B1 EP 1694155 B1 EP1694155 B1 EP 1694155B1 EP 03782009 A EP03782009 A EP 03782009A EP 03782009 A EP03782009 A EP 03782009A EP 1694155 B1 EP1694155 B1 EP 1694155B1
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Michel Abittan
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Abittan Abrasives & Colour Me & Drop-A-Diamond & Pearl Of Diamond & Faceted Rocks 100% Diamond
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  • the present invention relates to a gemstone having a surface at least part of which is polished, according to the preamble of the first claim.
  • the technique of polishing gemstones, for example diamonds, by cutting the surface of the diamond is well known in the art.
  • the surface of the diamond is cut to show a specific number of facets, the facets having determined shapes and sizes and extending under well defined angles with respect to each other.
  • the diamond is cut to show along the top of the stone a crown with a table, a girdle surrounding the crown, and below the girdle a plurality of pavilion facets which point to the culit.
  • the internal brilliance of the stone, the dispersion of the light by the stone and the amount of light reflected by the stone determine the quality of the cut and of the stone.
  • the stone further comprises a lower portion containing 4 lower part facets forming an isosceles triangle.
  • Four groups of narrow additional facets extend from the four corners of the girdle plane between the lateral edges of the lower part facets.
  • the angle between each of the upper part facets and the girdle plane is between 23° and 30° and the angle between each of the lower part facets and the girdle plane is between 34° and 43°.
  • US-A-6.006.548 describes a cut for a colored gemstone.
  • the gemstone is cut to comprise a crown with a table, a girdle surrounding the crown, and below the girdle a plurality of pavilion facets which point to the culit.
  • the table of the stone is a continuously stepped surface, which steps in upward direction up to the top center edge of the stone.
  • a major disadvantage of the above described generally known cutting techniques is that the majority of the stone needs to be cut away in order to achieve the desired symmetry of the stone which induces the brilliance. With a brilliant cut for example the amount of material retained seldom exceeds 50 %. Also, with the known cutting techniques, it is a pre-requisite that the interior of the stone shows perfect cristallinity and that the number of crystal defects, inclusions of foreign material, cracks or any other defects is as few as possible if an optimum stone quality is aimed at. The reason is that in order to have a brilliance which is as high as possible, the known cutting techniques are developed to render the stone transparent to light. As a consequence of this transparency any defaults present in the interior of the stone are revealed and become visible through the stone. This is unwanted.
  • the present invention aims at providing a gemstone with which the loss of material in the course of polishing may be minimised, the attractiveness of the stone being virtually independent on the presence or absence of imperfections in the stone.
  • the gemstone of the present invention is characterised by the presence of a plurality of facets.
  • the dimensions of the facets are chosen such that the stone comprises a number of adjacent facets which amounts to between 4 and 25 facets per mm 2 of surface area. In practise this means that each facet covers a surface area of between 0.25 and 0.04 mm 2 , which is extremely small.
  • the facets applied to the surface of the gemstone have such a small surface area, the facets follow the contours of the stone and loss of material in the course of polishing may be reduced to a minimum.
  • the inventor has now found that with a stone showing a large number of such adjacent small facets, not only the natural colour of the stone is revealed and gets emphasized, but also that the stone shows a high degree of brilliance the surface and that visibility of impurities, inclusions or cracks or any other defects present in the interior of the stone, may be largely reduced.
  • the surface of the stone of this invention resembles the surface of a honeycomb structure.
  • Light impinging the surface of two adjacent facets is reflected in different directions.
  • the light is reflected by a large number of facets, and as adjacent facets extend under an angle with respect to each other, the light is reflected in a vast number of widely varying directions.
  • the light has been found to reflect not only from the planes of the facets but also at the edges, as a consequence of which the gemstone shows a sparkling effect in the light.
  • the inventor has also found that by applying this faceting, the original colour of the stone is revealed and emphasized in an aesthetically attractive manner. This effect is achieved independently of the purity of the stone or the presence of inclusions of foreign material, cracks, etc.
  • a preferred embodiment of this invention is characterised in that the surface of the stone comprises 4-15, more preferably 10-12 facets per mm 2 of surface area. The inventor has found that within this range an optimum reflection of light by the faceted surface may be achieved.
  • the gemstone of this invention is characterised by adjacent facets which extend with respect to each other under an angle, the angle between adjacent facets being between 0.1-5°, preferably between 0.25-1°.
  • the facets follow the contours of the stone.
  • the weight of the stone is one of the parameters determining its value.
  • the inventor has found that with such positioning of the facets, a faceted rock may be obtained the surface of which produces an optimum reflection of the light impinging it in a large number of widely varying directions, thus inducing brilliance to the stone.
  • the angle between adjacent facets amounts to above 10°, a cut stone is obtained, the facets of which do no longer follow the original contours of the stone, the loss of material becoming undesirably high.
  • the invention is further elucidated in the appending figure and description of the figure.
  • Figure 1 is a view to the surface of a preferred embodiment of the gemstone of this invention.
  • the gemstone 1 of this invention comprises a surface area 2, showing a multiplicity of adjacent facets 3, 4, 5.
  • either the whole surface area 2 may be faceted or only part of it.
  • the latter may for example be of interest, in case only part of the stone will be visible during use. In such case it may be of economical interest to facet only the part of the surface of the stone which will be visible, or a somewhat larger part.
  • the inventor has found that even in case only part of the surface of the stone is faceted, on the faceted part the natural colour of the stone is revealed and emphasised. The partly faceting having virtually no adverse effect to the colour of the stone.
  • the facets 3-5 may have any shape ought suitable by the person skilled in the art of reflecting light impinging the surface of the stone.
  • the facets may have a geometrical shape which may be regular or irregular. Often, an irregular shape will be preferred as this has the result that a wider diversification may be obtained, of the direction in which the light incidenting the surface of the stone, is reflected.
  • the surface 2 of the stone may exclusively comprise facets having a regular shape, or an irregular shape, or a combination of both.
  • the surface of the stone may comprise facets having a substantially regular 6-edge shaped figure, facets 3,4 having a substantially irregular 5- and 3-edge shaped figure and square facets 5.
  • the surface of the stone may be composed of facets having the same or varying dimensions.
  • the dimensions of the facets will be adjusted such that 4-25, preferably 4-15, more preferably 10-12 facets per mm 2 of surface area are present.
  • this means that such facets will have a surface area of between 0.25 - 0.04, preferably 0.25 - 0.083 mm 2 , more preferably 0.10 - 0.083 mm 2 , as in this range an optimum brilliance of the stone may be achieved combined with an optimum emphasis of the natural colour of the stone and an optimum down toning of any defects, impurities and inclusions present in the stone, combined with a minimum loss of material and minimum risk to breaking of the stone upon polishing.
  • the inventor has observed that light impinging the surface of such a gemstone is immediately reflected, light absorption being largely reduced as compared to stones comprising facets having a larger surface area. With increasing surface area the risk to absorption, and the appearance of large white-like surfaces has been found to occur, which reduce the brilliance of the stone.
  • the inventor has further found that that when the surface area of a facet increases to above 0.25 mm 2 , too much light is reflected in one single direction, as a consequence of which that facet resembles a large white surface, which goes at the expense of the brilliance of the stone. Also, when the faceting of this invention is applied to ornamental diamonds for example, with increasing size of the facets there is an increasing risk to penetration of the light into the interior of the stone, which goes at the expense of the amount of light reflected by the surface of the stone. A surface area of 0.04 mm 2 per facet appeared to be the smallest possible surface area achievable with existing cutting techniques.
  • the gemstone suitable for use with the present invention may be any gemstone known to the person skilled in the art, and may for example comprise precious stones for example rough, unpolished diamond, polished diamond, industrial or ornamental diamond, diamond the surface of which shows cracks or holes, polished diamond.
  • precious stones for example rough, unpolished diamond, polished diamond, industrial or ornamental diamond, diamond the surface of which shows cracks or holes, polished diamond.
  • the faceting of the present invention may as well be applied to ornamental diamonds showing a specific cut, for example a baguette, taper, emunterde, heart, pear, round, square, marquise, oval, princess, rose, briolette, marigold, or any other cut known to the person skilled in the art.
  • the result is that the brilliance of a thus cut precious stone is further emphasised and that a sparkling effect is induced when light is impinging the stone.
  • the gemstone suitable for use with this invention may also be a semi-precious stone, for example rubin, smaragd, sapphire, granate etc.
  • a first facet is be polished.
  • a second facet adjacent the first facet is polished. This will mostly involve that an edge of the first facet gets removed, thus making the shape of the first facet asymmetric.

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Claims (9)

  1. Schmuckstein, der eine Oberfläche aufweist, wovon mindestens ein Teil geschliffen ist, wobei mindestens ein sichtbarer Teil des Steins geschliffen ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die geschliffene Oberfläche eine Vielzahl von benachbarten Facetten aufweist, wobei jede einen Oberflächenbereich zwischen 0,04 und 0,25 mm2 aufweist, wobei der Winkel zwischen den benachbarten Facetten zwischen 0,1 und 5° beträgt, und die Facetten derart entlang der Oberfläche des Steins angebracht werden, dass sie den ursprünglichen Konturen des Steins folgen.
  2. Schmuckstein nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der geschliffene Oberflächenbereich 4 bis 25 Facetten je mm2 Oberflächenbereich umfasst.
  3. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der geschliffene Oberflächenbereich 4 bis 15, bevorzugt 10 bis 12 Facetten je mm2 Oberflächenbereich umfasst.
  4. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Winkel zwischen den benachbarten Facetten zwischen 0,25 und 1° beträgt.
  5. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Facetten eine regelmäßige geometrische Form aufweisen.
  6. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Facetten eine geometrische Form aufweisen, die unregelmäßig ist.
  7. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Facetten praktisch die gleichen Formen aufweisen.
  8. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Facetten eine unterschiedliche Form aufweisen.
  9. Schmuckstein nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Schmuckstein ausgewählt ist aus der Gruppe von Edel- oder Halbedelsteinen.
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