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US 10,711,337 B2Granted
System and method for stainless steel cladding of carbon steel pieces
AssigneeCommercial Metals Company
InventorTimothy P. Zeien
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Abstract
A system and method of cladding a carbon steel piece with stainless steel according to which the carbon steel piece is cleaned, heated, coated with the stainless steel, and strengthened. In an exemplary embodiment, coating the carbon steel piece with the stainless steel includes melting the stainless steel, atomizing the melted stainless steel, and spraying the atomized stainless steel so that at least a portion of the atomized stainless steel is deposited on the carbon steel piece to thereby coat the carbon steel piece with the stainless steel.
Claims8
A product, comprising:
- a carbon steel piece;
- and
- an atomized stainless steel spray coating that clads the carbon steel piece;
- wherein the thickness of the atomized stainless steel spray coating is equal to or greater than 0.007 inches;
- wherein the carbon steel piece is a carbon steel rebar piece or dowel bar;
- wherein the atomized stainless steel spray coating, which clads the carbon steel rebar piece or dowel bar, defines an external surface of the product;
- wherein the external surface of the product, which is defined by the atomized stainless steel spray coating, has a surface finish;
- and
- wherein the surface finish of the external surface of the product is a shot-peen surface finish.
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