Abstract:
AN ELECTROPLATED PRODUCT CONPRISING A GRAFT COPOLYMER OF VINYL CHLORIDE ON A CONJUGATED DIENE BACKBONE. THE COPOLYMER IS FIRST SENSITIZED WITH STANNOUS CHLORIDE, THEN CHEMICALLY PLATED WITH METAL AND THEN ELECTROPLATED.
Abstract:
SUBSTRATES OF COPOLYMERS OF VINYL CHLORIDE WITH MALEATE OR FUMARATE DIESTERS ARE COATED WITH METAL BY ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION AND THEN ELECTROPLATED.
Abstract:
Improved process for metallizing various plastic materials, including shaped vinyl chloride polymer and acrylonitrilebutadiene-styrene polymer articles, which includes using as the sensitizing solution in the known metallization process a solution which contains at least one tin IV salt dissolved therein in addition to the tin II and other conventional components. The sensitizing solution is itself disclosed and claimed.
Abstract:
A SHAPED ARTICLE OF A VINYLCHLORIDE GRAFTED COPOLYMER OF ETHYLENE AND VINYLCHLORIDE HAVING ON THE SURFACE THEREOF A METAL FILM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SUCH METALLIZED SHAPED ARTICLE COMPRISING (1) PREPARING AN ETHYLENE-VINYLCHLORIDE COPOLYMER, (2) GRAFTING VINYLCHLORIDE ONTO SAID COPOLYMER, (3) FORMING SAID GRAFT COPOLYMER INTO A SHAPED ARTICLE AND (4) APPLYING A METAL FILM TO THE SURFACE OF SAID ARTICLE.