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US 2006/0222892 A1Published application
Coated article with dark color
AssigneeVapor Technologies, Inc.
InventorBryce Anton
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Abstract
An article is coated with a coating having a dark gray or bronze color. In a preferred embodiment, the coating comprises a nickel or polymer basecoat layer, and a color and protective stack layer comprised of layers of oxygen-rich refractory metal oxycarbides. The preferred dark grey, oxygen rich color layer is zirconium oxycarbide. A refractory metal adhesion layer and a refractory metal oxide top coat layer also may be used.
Claims20
An article comprising a substrate having a surface and having on at least a portion of the surface a coating having a dark color comprising:
- a color and protective layer comprised of a layer of refractory metal oxycarbide having an oxygen content and a carbon content wherein the oxygen content is greater than the carbon content.
An article having a dark color comprising:
- a substrate having a surface;
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- a color and protective layer on at least a portion of the substrate wherein the color layer is a zirconium oxycarbide having an oxygen content and a carbon content wherein the oxygen content is greater than the carbon content.
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