Patent ID: 6843842

Claim:
A glass coating method comprising coating a glass bottle with a glass coating agent while maintaining the temperature of the glass 450 to 750° C. to form a metal oxide layer on the surface of the glass, wherein said glass coating agent comprises a metallic compound represented by formula (I): R 1 k-m M(OCOR 2 ) m (I) wherein M represents a metal atom selected from the group consisting of tin, titanium, indium, silicon, zirconium, and aluminum; R 1 represents a straight-chain, branched, or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl, or aryl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R 2 represents a branched alkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; k is a number representing the valence of the metal atom M, and m is 2, and wherein said glass coating agent is in the form of a liquid, in the form of a dispersion or solution in a solvent, or in the form of a gas.