Patent Publication Number: US-2005126225-A1

Title: Tumbled, polished, vibrated broken tempered glass pieces

Description:
FIELD OF INVENTION  
      The present invention relates to tumbled and/or polished and/or smoothed broken tempered glass pieces and more particularly to the suitability and handling of these once sharp, jagged and rough glass pieces for the use in but not limited to art, decoration, facade, stone work, lapidary, construction, paving, laminates, decorative, functional and nonfunctional uses and interior and exterior decorating.  
     BACKGROUND OF INVENTION  
      Tumbling and/or polishing and/or vibrating are surface finishing operations of the broken tempered glass pieces are caused to move in a bed of treating elements, e.g., abrasive particles, aqueous matter, or against one another in such a manner that the relative motion between the tempered glass pieces and the treating of the elements cause an alteration of the surfaces, e.g., a polishing, de-burring, smoothing or material removed to create smooth glass pieces suitable for handling.  
      It has been proposed heretofore, to have improved upon the tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated once sharp, jagged, rough tempered glass pieces by the means of simply tumbling and/or polishing and/or vibrating to create the smooth glass pieces suitable for handling.  
      This process of tumbling and/or polishing and/or vibrating is not very lengthy dependent upon the required results to be achieved. All three processes of the product vary in visual outcomes whether polished and/or tumbled, and/or vibrated—metallic surroundings, either ferrous or nonferrous containers, either in poly-based materials such as poly drums the results will vary dependent upon the method used to achieve the desired look of the polished and/or tumbled and/or vibrated tempered pieces.  
     SUMMARY OF INVENTION  
      As mentioned, tumbling and/or polishing and/or vibrating of the tempered broken glass either in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal process with aqueous liquids with or without abrasives and or dry with or without abrasives is required to achieve tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated broken tempered glass pieces that are now polished smooth, de-burred, and possible to handle for regardless the type of use has become a manageable and multifaceted use of the product.  
      In view of the fact that previously broken tempered glass has been discarded as waste. The object of this invention is to provide a newly processed and newly found product, which we found dozens of uses for, if not hundreds.  
      It is an object of the present invention to provide tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated tempered glass pieces having an irregular smooth or polished surface pattern and or appearance. It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of producing tumbled and/or polished and/or broken tempered glass articles with an irregular, smooth polished surface pattern and or appearance.  
      The present invention is directed to tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated tempered glass pieces consisting of tempered glass, heat-strengthened glass and or toughened glass that have been broken only to be tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated to achieve the final product.  
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS  
      The object of the present invention, which is believed to be novel and set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The present invention in a manner of appearance showed to be of the simplest form.  
       FIG. 1  Computer black and white picture depicts tempered glass that has been broken, tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated to achieve the end result. This picture is dated Jun. 13, 2003  
       FIG. 2  Computer black and white picture depicts a different type of tempered glass that has been broke, tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated to achieve the end result. This picture is dated Jun. 13, 2003  
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT  
      The tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated broken tempered glass is relatively straight forward in form and shape or therefore the lack of as shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2 .  
      The principle features of the tumbled and/or polished and/or vibrated broken tempered glass pieces is purely novel and can be used functionally or non-functionally as an item for art, decoration, facade, stonework, lapidary, construction, paving laminates, decorative, interior and exterior decorating.  
      As described above the present invention provides for many facets in many industries although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art will appreciate the various modifications, additions and substitutions that are possible without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in accompanying claims.  
      The previous discussion describes in detail one embodiment of the invention and several variations of that embodiment. This discussion should not be construed, however, as limiting the invention to those particular embodiments as well.  
      The present invention contemplates a number of different variations of the above described preferred embodiment. It is to be understood that the description is only one of the preferred embodiments and scope of the invention is to be measured by the claim.