Abstract:
A high temperature flame spray or plasma effects thermal spray impact of molten materials against a target area of a surface to be built up, which molten particles, when cooled, are in tension, and an impact fusion internal burner device producing a supersonic jet stream impacts thermal spray heated solid particles against the surface in the target area such that the high velocity of the individual solid particles are impact fused, causing compressive stresses to be set up in the fused solid particles. The individual particle tensile and compressive stresses cancel one another to form an overall essentially stress-free coating. The flame spray molten particles and the flame spray heated solid particles may impact the surface concurrently at a same impact point. Alternatively, thin separate layers of the molten particles and the heated solid particles are deposited on the surface to be built up and superimposed on each other such that the tensile and compressive stresses of the particles of respective superimposed layers cancel each other out.
Abstract:
A coated object is produced by flame spraying the object with a substantially molten polymeric material which comprises a blend containing polybutylene homopolymer or copolymer, an adhesion promoter and a nucleating agent.
Abstract:
In a method to spray a coating of uniform thickness onto a spinning disk, a point is located spacially on the spinning disk at a distance from the center equal to about half of a spray stripe width plus half of the disk radius. The spray stream is moved in a ring-shaped pattern centered at the point and having a perimeter defined at the stripe mid-line. The perimeter diameter is equal to the disk radius. The spray stream is moved around the pattern with successive speeds, namely a base speed for a semicircular outer zone at the periphery of the disk and a smaller inner zone at the center, and lesser speeds for intermediate zones. For a concentrically contoured disk, between the above cycles the spray stream is affixed perpendicularly to a slanted surface of the spinning disk for a time period sufficient to compensate for a thickness deficiency.
Abstract:
A coated object is produced by flame spraying the object with a substantially molten polymeric material which comprises a blend containing polybutylene homopolymer or copolymer and an adhesion promoter.
Abstract:
A continuous, pinhole-free thermoplastic polymer coating, which may be a fluoroelastomer, is applied to a porous metal surface in a single coating step by spraying the thermoplastic polymer from a thermal spray gun onto a porous metal surface which is at substantially room temperature to form a semi-fused, highly porous coating. The porous metal surface is then heated to fuse the thermoplastic polymer coating into a well-anchored, continuous film. This method permits the application of a continuous thermoplastic polymer coating with one coating step rather than with the plurality of coating steps currently needed to produce a coating with comparable properties.
Abstract:
A method for coating a cylindrical container with a thin, resinous coating by spraying powdered resin is disclosed. The technique involves spraying of finely divided resin particles into a beverage container from spray nozzles external to the container. The container may be sprayed by directing a pulse of a predetermined quantum of resin into the container to deposit a substantially uniform coating. Alternatively, a continuous flow of resin at a predetermined rate may be sprayed into a container. The resin particles are caused to adhere to the container by preheating the container. The coating is rendered continuous by preheating the container to temperatures above the softening point of the resin. Postheating of the coated container at temperatures in excess of about 300.degree. F. matures the coating.
Abstract:
The interior of cylindrical metal containers are coated with a thin, substantially uniform comestible coating by spraying finely divided resinous particles into the container after it has been preheated by a plasma arc-generated flame to a temperature above the softening point of the resin. The process is capable of coating containers at rates up to about 600 containers per minute with a substantially pore-free film having a thickness less than about one mil to as low as 0.1 mil and lower. Typical of containers coated by the process are conventional two-piece aluminum containers. Typical preheat temperatures are from about 150.degree. F. to about 525.degree. F. for aluminum containers and from about 150.degree. F. to about 1000.degree. F. for steel containers. A typical preheat time is from about 30 to about 300 milliseconds. Typical resins are finely divided thermosetting epoxy powders. The plasma arc device may also be used to post-heat coated containers to mature the coating.
Abstract:
An alloy of nickel and aluminum, which also may contain varying percentages of intermetallics, in the form of a wire or rod is sprayed in an electric arc spray gun to form a self-bonding coating on a smooth, clean substrate. Alternatively an alloy of nickel and titanium, which also may contain varying percentages of intermetallics, in the form of a wire may be similarly electric arc sprayed to effect a self-bonding coating on a substrate. The nickel aluminum alloy and possibly intermetallics or the nickel titanium alloy and possibly intermetallics are supplied as a wire feed to the electric arc spray gun, and when heated in the electric arc of the spray gun and sprayed onto a substrate will form a coating that has a high degree of tenacity to many metal substrates and also has a moderate degree of hardness, low R.sub.c, high R.sub.b. The self-bonding is attributed to the formation of superheated liquid in the arc process and the affinity of that superheated liquid to iron, nickel, aluminum, etc.