## CHATOYANT

Wax and foil-paper rough model of Chatoyant. See Ic.

"Chatoyant" Webster's dictionary. Having a changeable lustre or colour like that of a changeable silk or a cat's-eye in the dark.

Chatoyant is a new structural combination of materials for use in the manufacture of commercial objects : Whole objects, objects of Chatoyant combined with other materials, designs in Chatoyant applied to or set into (ie. inlay) other material.

Chatoyant consists of a layer of **brilliant**, coloured, varicoloured or natural coloured metal, metal foil or foil paper combined with transparent or almost transparent plastics or glass, white or coloured.

The metal layer may be embedded in the plastics or glass or applied as a backing by electrical process, moulding, pressure, heating, surface fusion or cementation or any suitable process.

The combining of these materials to the Chatoyant effect viz. that of a shifting glow of silvery, white or coloured metallic high light shining through a slightly veiled surface is based on the following principles : -

I- The curvature, undulation or angularity of the upper surface of solid plastics or glass over a flat or even metallic layer

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