Coated article having a stainless steel color
AssigneeMasco Corporation of Indiana
InventorsPatrick B. Jonte, James S. Lipe, Guocun Chen
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Abstract
An article is coated with a multi-layer coating having a stainless steel color. The coating comprises an electroplated layer or layers on the article surface, a refractory metal or refractory metal alloy strike layer on the electroplated layer or layers, a color layer containing a refractory metal oxide or refractory metal alloy oxide having a substoichiometric oxygen content on the strike layer, and a refractory metal oxide or refractory metal alloy oxide having a substantially stoichiometric oxygen content layer on said color layer.
Claims17
An article having on at least a portion of its surface a multi-layer coating having the appearance of stainless steel said coating comprising:
- at least one electroplated layer;
- a color layer comprised of a refractory metal oxide or refractory metal alloy oxide wherein the oxygen content of said refractory metal oxide or refractory metal alloy oxide is a substoichiometric amount of from about 5 atomic percent to about 25 atomic percent.
An article having on at least a portion of its surface a multi-layer coating having the appearance of stainless steel said coating comprising:
- at least one electroplated layer on the surface of said article, and
- a color layer comprised of a refractory metal oxide or refractory metal alloy oxide having a substoichiometric oxygen content of from about 5 to about 25 atomic percent on said at least one electroplated layer;
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- a refractory metal oxide or refractory metal alloy oxide having a substantially stoichiometric oxygen content on said color layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.