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US 5,667,843 AGranted
Pre-treating zinciferous surfaces before conventional chromating to improve rust resistance
AssigneeHenkel Corporation
InventorsNoriaki Yoshitake, Kensuke Mizuno, Takao Ogino
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Abstract
The protection against black and white rust on zinciferous surfaces by a conventional chromating treatment is improved by drying into place on the zinciferous surface before chromating a pre-treatment composition that contains hexavalent chromium ion plus one or more salts of nickel and cobalt, in an amount to produce an add-on of 0.5 to 100 mg/m.sup.2 of metal.
Claims8
A process for treating a zinciferous surface, said process comprising steps of:
- (A) coating the zinciferous surface with a film of an aqueous liquid pre-treatment composition consisting essentially of (i) water;
- (ii) cations selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel, and both cobalt and nickel;
- (iii) anions containing hexavalent chromium;
- and (iv) sufficient anions to balance the charge of the cations present and, optionally, (v) complexing agents for cobalt and nickel cations;
- and, optionally, (vi) divalent lead cations, trivalent iron cations, or both;
- said pre-treatment composition also being substantially free from chloride ions;
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- (B) drying into place on the zinciferous surface the film of aqueous liquid coated thereon in step (A);
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- (C) applying a chromate coating to the zinciferous surface as treated at the end of step (B), the amount of chromate coating thus applied being sufficient to inhibit the corrosion of the underlying zinciferous surface,
- the total mass of cobalt and nickel added to the zinciferous surface during steps (A) and (B) being in the range from about 0.5 to about 100 mg/m.sup.2 of the zinciferous surface treated.
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