CA2179374A1 - Gold alloy - Google Patents

Gold alloy

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CA2179374A1
CA2179374A1 CA002179374A CA2179374A CA2179374A1 CA 2179374 A1 CA2179374 A1 CA 2179374A1 CA 002179374 A CA002179374 A CA 002179374A CA 2179374 A CA2179374 A CA 2179374A CA 2179374 A1 CA2179374 A1 CA 2179374A1
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Silverio Cerato
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Silmar SpA
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22CALLOYS
    • C22C5/00Alloys based on noble metals
    • C22C5/02Alloys based on gold

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Abstract

The alloy is based on gold and is suitable for use in the jewelry field for production of jewelry articles, coins and gold rods, with a titer variable between 8-22 karats and has a variable percentage of other components among which silver, copper, zinc in a ternary alloy, quaternary alloy and others. The alloy contains the titanium element. A satisfactory ratio is achieved between the aging time and the hardness in the thermal treatment carried out during the aging process.

Description

FIELD OF THE lNV~NllON
The present invention relate~ to alloys made of gold useful in the 3ewelry field for the production of jewelry articles, coins and rods made of gold with a titer which varies be~ween 8 karats and 22 karats with different percentages of other components among which are silver, copper and zinc and characterized by the presence of titanium which i~ the object of the presen~ invention.

BACKGROUND OF T~E ~NV~:NlION
It is well known ehat pure gold is extremely soft and th~t in the production of jewelry articles it is necessary to use a material which has particular properties of hardness, re~istance to wear and at ehe same time Qhould retain a warm and brilliant color.
The hardness of the alloy is due to phenomena of precipitation in the ~olid phase as well as phenomena of the disorder-order transition which occur below certain temperatures and particular atomic ratios between the elements of the alloy. I~ is at thi~
point that titanium is inserted into the composition and titanium, due to the fact thst it participates to the above mentioned phenomena of precipitation, imparts to the alloy novel properties.
Alloys of gold in general are made from the ternary system Au-Ag-Cu and in commerce they are available with different titer~ between 8 and 24 karats. Intermediate titers in commerce are 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21 and 22 karaes. Up to very recent times the study of gold, a metal used for centuries for ornamental `~ 21 79374 purposes, above all because of the particular color and resi~tance to spotting, has been limited to alloys which are easily workable and with a plea~ant color. In YieW of the incre~e in the price o~ gold which at certain times has even been above $800 per ounce, i~ is evident that it has become necessary to use lighter jewelry but equally resistane.
In addition, for articles more showy, particularly bracelets (hollow), earrings made with a circle and ~inally the production of very thin chains similar for in~tance to the product~
listed in the Italian p~tent application VI9SA000085 of the same ~pplicsnt, there are required lighter and more re~istant products not only for economical but also aesthetic reasons. This requirement is respon~ible for the fact that other me~als in pure state have been added to the three elements listed abo~e for the purpose of preparing jewelry alloys.
The metal which mo~tly is being used tO form the common quaternly alloy is zinc which is added in sm~ll quantities, less than 0.5% as a deoxidizing material or in greater amounts for instance up to 10% or even more in order to modify the color, ~he workability and the mechanical properties of the alloy. The combination, gold, silver, copper and zinc, constitute e~sentially all the gold alloys commonly used for jewelry ar~icles. These alloys may be different one from the other due to the addition to the four basic elements sm~ll amounts of other metals ~uch as nickel, cobale, iron, silicon, boron, ruthenium, iridium, indium or others. sy ~ay of example, patents which describe what has been summarized hereinabove and which show the variety of components being used to form a gold alloy are:
- USP No. 2,141,15~ in the name of Peterson, which contains 33Z-84% of gold, 10%-67% of copper, 2Z-10% of zinc, 2%-10% of ~ilYer and 0.1%-5~ o~ cobalt. In this alloy the cobalt is being used to obeain rever~ible hardening.
- USP No. 2,229,463 in the name of Leach, which contains 35%-752 of gold, 5%-25% of fiil~er, 12~-35% copper, 0.1~-12% zinc, and 1%-5 of iron. In this alloy the iron is used eo obtain both the reversible as well as irreversible hardening.
- USP No. 2,24~,100 in t~e name of ~oebich, which contains 33%-66% of gold, 1%-30% of sîlver, 10%-55% of copper, 0.5%-15% of zinc and 0.1%-5% of iron.
- USP No. 3,981,723 describes an alloy of white gold which contains palladium, silver, indium and 0.005% of iridium or ruthenium.
More recent patent~ describe alloys such as ~SP No. 5,180,551 in the name of Leach and Garner and USP No. 5,173,132 in the name of Solomon. In these patents different combinations of cobalt and ~ickel are used for the purpose of impro~ing the structure of the grain, optimizing ~he color and increasing the mechanical resistence .
It is clear from the above list of patents with respect to the state of the art in the field of jewelry products, the titanium element does not ~ppear because the work of alloy~ which coneain this element requires particular precaution~ due to great activity `- 21 79374 at high temperature ~ith air, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon which are commonly present in forming the protec~ive atmo~phere during the ~reatment-~ of solubilization, aging, cold working, fusion or otbers.
The only alloy of gold known at present which contains titsnium is the alloy knowD as "gold 990". This alloy has a high karat and i~ the result of btudy carried out in the 1970 period and the purpose was to sol~e two ~ypes of problems, hardening an alloy with a very low percentage of alloying elements and at the same time produce an ~lloy which is aesthetically satisfactory, for ins~ance with respect eo color. The result has been that an alloy with karats of 23.76 in gold and 1% by weight of titanium has been made. This alloy has offered a resistance to wear equal to an alloy of 18 karatg and hafi been claimed particularly in USP
1,023,334 and Dutch Patent ~o. P35 02 914.5.
The titanium is present in this alloy in the form of titanium nitride in the galvanic treatments of superficial hardening for the purpose of increasing the resistance to wear and to abrasion of jewelry articles having high karats (see A.R.
Zielonka Gold Technology No. 14, November 1994).

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a gold alloy h~ing between 8 and 22 karats with the ternary system Au-Ag-Cu, which msy include other elementb such 8S Zn, ~u, Ir, B, Si, In or others and which contain the titanium element.

In particular, titsnium sub~titute6 in practice two elements which ~p ~o the present time have been employed in the production of jewelry, that is nickel and cobalt. These two elements have the drawback that they are ferromagnetic and ~heir pre~ence in the alloy limits the sale of jewelry in the markets in which ~here are some restricting laws in this respect. Further the nickel, as it i~ well known, may cause serious types of allergy in the skin to such an extent that in several coun~ries such as Japan, England and Germany law~ have been made which prevent the commercialization of jewelry articles ~-hich contain nickel.
With an alloy containing abo~ 58.5% of gold, 5%-10$ of silver, 15%-25~ of copper, 10%-20~ of zinc and 0.1%-1% of titanium, one obtains a gold product suitable for the above described uses, of sufficient mechanical resistance and hardness (160 HV with the renewed baking and 280 HV with the agin~ treatm~nt and with a grain dimension of 8 AS~M). A~ the same time the alloy has a pleasan~
color si~ilar to the alloy having 18 karats which is the alloy most used - see Ta~le he~einbelow.

re~aked alloy allov 2~ter the aging treatment hardness 160 ~v 280 HV
grain dLmension 8 ASTM 8 ASTM
The above mentioned properties are also clear ~ro~ the accompanying figures:
Fig. 1 which illustrates the r~tio which exists between the time and the hardness in the thermal treatment of aging.
The specific quantities of the indi~idual pure metals, expressed in percentage weight clearly vary as a function of the specific uses of the gold alloy.
The invention, therefore, consists of providing an alloy having the ternary gold, silver, copper composition and ~ieh titanium variable as well a~ alloys of a quaternary type and others.

Claims (4)

1. An alloy of gold comprising at least the ternary composition of gold, silver and copper, having 8-22 karats in several percentage compositions by weight and suitable for the production of jewelry articles, coins and gold rods and which comprises also titanium.
2. The alloy according to claim 1, wherein the alloy is a quaternary alloy containing gold, silver, copper and zinc, having between 8 and 22 karats and additionally contains titanium.
3. The alloy according to claim 1, wherein the alloy is ternary alloy with gold, silver and copper, has 8-22 karats and additionally contains titanium and which comprises small quantities of other elements, said elements being silicon, boron, indium, iridium, ruthenium or others.
4. The alloy according to claim 2 which is a quaternary alloy containing gold, silver, copper and zinc and additionally titanium, said alloy having 8-22 karats and having small quantities of the elements silicon, boron, indium, ruthenium, iridium or others.
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IT95VI000105A IT1280528B1 (en) 1995-06-27 1995-06-27 GOLD-BASED ALLOYS
ITVI95A000105 1995-06-27

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DE (1) DE19625807A1 (en)
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DE102020206620A1 (en) 2020-05-27 2021-12-02 Dr. Alex Wellendorff Gmbh & Co. Kg Alloy, in particular noble metal alloy, semifinished product made from such an alloy, piece of jewelry with at least one such semifinished product, and method for producing such a semifinished product

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