EP0255501A1 - Metallprodukt mit verbessertem Glanz nach der Lackierung und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung - Google Patents

Metallprodukt mit verbessertem Glanz nach der Lackierung und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung Download PDF

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EP0255501A1
EP0255501A1 EP87870100A EP87870100A EP0255501A1 EP 0255501 A1 EP0255501 A1 EP 0255501A1 EP 87870100 A EP87870100 A EP 87870100A EP 87870100 A EP87870100 A EP 87870100A EP 0255501 A1 EP0255501 A1 EP 0255501A1
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Adolphe Bragard
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B1/00—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations
    • B21B1/22—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling plates, strips, bands or sheets of indefinite length
    • B21B1/227—Surface roughening or texturing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B2261/00—Product parameters
    • B21B2261/14—Roughness
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49544—Roller making
    • Y10T29/4956—Fabricating and shaping roller work contacting surface element
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/4998—Combined manufacture including applying or shaping of fluent material
    • Y10T29/49982—Coating
    • Y10T29/49986—Subsequent to metal working
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/12—All metal or with adjacent metals
    • Y10T428/12389—All metal or with adjacent metals having variation in thickness
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/12—All metal or with adjacent metals
    • Y10T428/12993—Surface feature [e.g., rough, mirror]

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  • the present invention relates to a metallic product having an improved gloss after painting, as well as to methods for its manufacture. It relates in particular to cold-rolled metal sheets, which will be more specifically referred to in the description which follows, but it can also be applied to other types of metal products intended to be painted.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a surface morphology of a metal product ensuring that it has an optimum shine after painting while being compatible with the requirements of the other processing operations, in particular by forming.
  • the metal product having an improved gloss after painting which is the subject of the present invention, is essentially characterized in that its surface consists of a plurality of flat and smooth facets, preferably located in the same plane and in this that these facets represent at least 30%, preferably at least 50% of the total surface of the product.
  • said facets are separated by valleys ensuring the roughness of the surface of the metal product.
  • these valleys form a network drawing a regular pattern, possibly repetitive in the surface of the product.
  • the dimension of each of said facets, in any direction in its plane is advantageously between 50 ⁇ m and 200 ⁇ m.
  • the facets are of the same order of magnitude as the valleys that separate them; they then constitute only an insufficient portion of the surface and do not provide the desired gloss.
  • a dimension greater than 200 ⁇ m is not desirable, in order to avoid the appearance of harmful specific phenomena, such as micro-seizure during the forming operations.
  • This characteristic can also be expressed by specifying that the pitch of said network is advantageously between 50 ⁇ m and 200 ⁇ m.
  • the present invention also relates to methods for obtaining the surface morphology of a metal product which has just been described.
  • the metal product is given a surface that is as flat and smooth as possible during the first stages of its manufacture and the aforementioned network is formed in this surface during the last stage of manufacture.
  • the surface of the product may be provided, before the last manufacturing step, with a very fine roughness which deviates little from the ideal plane and in any case less than the final roughness corresponding to the above-mentioned network, if this is the case. necessary to allow the first stages of manufacturing.
  • the final roughness is imparted by a tool, the surface of which is itself provided with a network of ridges intended to print the above-mentioned network of valleys in the surface of the product.
  • the essentially flat portions of the surface of the tool lying between the ridges do not come into contact with the flat and smooth surface of the product. However, even if such contact did occur, the flat portions of the surface of the tool would not destroy the flatness of the facets of the surface of the product lying between the valleys of the network thus printed.
  • the surface is provided with a substantially regular roughness, before the last stage of its manufacture; then, during a subsequent step which may be the last, the vertices, that is to say the peaks or crests of this roughness, are crushed, using a smooth tool so as to form plane facets and smooth separated by the valleys of said roughness.
  • a fragment of a steel sheet 1 intended to be painted. It may in particular be a sheet metal bodywork.
  • the surface of the sheet should be perfectly flat and smooth as indicated by the trace of the ideal plane 2.
  • the real surface comprises flat and smooth facets 3 forming part of ideal plane 2, separated by valleys 4 which make it possible to ensure the lubrication of the sheet during the forming operations.
  • the dimension d of the facets is between 50 ⁇ m and 200 ⁇ m.
  • Fig.2 illustrates, in three stages a, b, c, the manufacture of a cold-rolled sheet according to the invention by the first embodiment described above.
  • a sheet 1 flat and smooth, obtained by appropriate prior operations and intended to receive its final morphology.
  • a finishing rolling cylinder 5 for example a work hardening cylinder, is provided with ridges 6 forming on its surface a network (not shown).
  • the cylinder 5 is applied to the sheet 1 and there prints a network of valleys 4, the portions of the flat surface of the sheet included between the valleys may or may not meet the portions of the surface of the cylinder included between the ridges 6.
  • view c shows the sheet 1 provided, on one face in the present example, with flat and smooth facets 3 separated by a network of valleys 4.
  • FIG.3 illustrates in three steps e, f, g, the manufacture of a sheet according to the invention by the second embodiment mentioned above.
  • View e shows in section, a sheet 1 provided with a regular roughness, for example with a tandem rolling mill.
  • This sheet is in view f, crushed on the skin-pass by a cylinder 5, the smooth surface of which smoothes the peaks of the initial roughness.
  • the sheet 1 has each time been shown with a single face treated in accordance with the invention. It goes without saying that this invention also covers cases where all the faces of the product have, over at least part of their extent, the particular morphology which is proposed here.
  • a treatment of the surface of rolling mill rolls by means of an intermittent laser beam makes it possible to create in this surface microcraters serving to imprint in the surface of a sheet the network of valleys leading to the desired morphology.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Metal Rolling (AREA)
  • Reduction Rolling/Reduction Stand/Operation Of Reduction Machine (AREA)
  • Application Of Or Painting With Fluid Materials (AREA)
  • Laser Beam Processing (AREA)
  • Shaping Metal By Deep-Drawing, Or The Like (AREA)
  • Powder Metallurgy (AREA)
EP87870100A 1986-07-28 1987-07-20 Metallprodukt mit verbessertem Glanz nach der Lackierung und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung Expired - Lifetime EP0255501B1 (de)

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AT87870100T ATE69184T1 (de) 1986-07-28 1987-07-20 Metallprodukt mit verbessertem glanz nach der lackierung und verfahren zu dessen herstellung.

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LU86531A LU86531A1 (fr) 1986-07-28 1986-07-28 Produit metallique presentant une brillance apres peinture amelioree et procedes pour sa fabrication
LU86531 1986-07-28

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EP0456162A2 (de) * 1990-05-07 1991-11-13 Aluminum Company Of America In allen Walzgerüsten und -stufen hergestellte Texturen
EP0489964A1 (de) * 1989-04-24 1992-06-17 Aluminum Company Of America Walzen von Metallprodukten
EP0606473A1 (de) * 1991-09-03 1994-07-20 Nippon Steel Corporation Verfahren zum herstellen von stahlplatten mit hoher farbgenauigkeit und hoher druckformbarkeit und gedämpften walzrollen

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EP0489964A1 (de) * 1989-04-24 1992-06-17 Aluminum Company Of America Walzen von Metallprodukten
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EP0606473A1 (de) * 1991-09-03 1994-07-20 Nippon Steel Corporation Verfahren zum herstellen von stahlplatten mit hoher farbgenauigkeit und hoher druckformbarkeit und gedämpften walzrollen
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ATE69184T1 (de) 1991-11-15

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