Composite materials having a coated edge and methods thereof
AssigneesProductive Research LLC, Material Sciences Corporation
InventorsPeter Isaac Bortell, Bryan Joseph Tullis
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are articles having an edge that is partially, or entirely sealed with one or more coatings including a polymeric material. The article may include a coating selected so that one surface (e.g., a face surface) has a desired property (e.g., an appearance, such as a chrome appearance), and a second surface (e.g., a different face surface, or an edge surface) is covered with a different material, where the different coatings provide protection to at least the edge surface. Also disclosed are coating materials including a tracer component. Also disclosed are methods for coating a substrate. Also disclosed are methods for confirming the presence of a coating, particularly on an edge surface.
Claims20
A method of forming a coated article comprising the steps of:
- i) providing a bare article having a first metallic face surface and an opposing second metallic face surface, and having an edge surface;
- ii) covering the first metallic face surface with a layer of an anti-corrosion polymeric material;
- iii) plating the second metallic face surface with one or more metallic plating layers to form a plated article having a plated surface, wherein the plated article has a bare surface between the plated surface and the surface coated with the anti-corrosion polymeric material, wherein the bare surface is generally free of the anti-corrosion polymeric material and is either free of the one or more metallic plating layers or includes only partial plating;
- iv) coating the bare surface with one or more polymeric coatings.
A method comprising the step of
- i) covering a first face surface of a composite material with a layer of an anti-corrosion polymeric material;
- wherein the composite material includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a polymeric core layer between the first and second metal layers, wherein the polymeric core layer includes a non-polar polymer, and metal particles and/or metal fibers, wherein the composite material includes the first face surface, an opposing second face surface, and an edge surface of the polymeric core layer;
- ii) plating at least the second face surface of the composite material with one or more metal containing plating layers;
- iii) coating the edge surface of the polymeric core layer with a polymeric coating including a polar polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.