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US 2011/0033729 A1Published application
Tempered plated wire
AssigneeIndustrial Door Co., Inc.
InventorsSteven Galloway, Karl Lundahl, Jeremy Sizer, Jodi Boldenow
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Abstract
The present invention is a method of manufacturing plated wire. The method includes drawing a feed stock to form drawn wire, tempering the drawn wire to form tempered wire and plating the tempered wire to form the plated wire. The plated wire exhibits a tensile strength that substantially meets ASTM A229-99.
Claims20
An article comprising:
- a tempered wire;
- and
- a finished surface disposed on the tempered wire, wherein the finished surface comprises a plating material, and wherein the article exhibits a tensile strength that substantially meets ASTM A229-99 and exhibits a hydrogen concentration of about two parts-per-million, or less, per weight.
A plated wire comprising:
- a tempered steel wire;
- and
- a zinc plated layer on the tempered steel wire, wherein the plated wire exhibits a tensile strength that substantially meets ASTM A229-99 and exhibits a hydrogen concentration of about two parts-per-million, or less, per weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.