US3188735A - Method for producing very thin and bright metal wires and profiles - Google Patents

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US3188735A
US3188735A US114555A US11455561A US3188735A US 3188735 A US3188735 A US 3188735A US 114555 A US114555 A US 114555A US 11455561 A US11455561 A US 11455561A US 3188735 A US3188735 A US 3188735A
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    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23F—NON-MECHANICAL REMOVAL OF METALLIC MATERIAL FROM SURFACE; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL; MULTI-STEP PROCESSES FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL INVOLVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESS PROVIDED FOR IN CLASS C23 AND AT LEAST ONE PROCESS COVERED BY SUBCLASS C21D OR C22F OR CLASS C25
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    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
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    • B21C37/047—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of rods or wire of fine wires
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
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    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
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  • the invention relates to an improved method and means f-or producing very thin stretched metal profiles such as thin wires, strips, bands, and the like, by drawing or rolling those profiles when coated with some material facilitating the drawing or rolling process, which material is removed after the reducing procedure.
  • very thin stretched metal profiles such as thin wires, strips, bands, and the like
  • Such -wires could heretofore be produced, e.g. by means of the Wollaston method.
  • the wires to be drawn are rst coated, e.g. by electro-plating with a metal coat.' After the wires have passed one or more dies the coat which facilitates the drawing is removed by means of acids or alka-lies, which makes bright wires.
  • One object of the invention is a new method for producing very thin and bright metal profiles, such as wires in which the latter lare not at all contacted with any corrosive medium such as acid, lye, Ioxygen or other chemical substances and in which any subsequent neutralizing steps are lobviated.
  • Another object of the invention is to produce bright metal wires having diameters less than attainable with the presently known methods.
  • the metal prolile to be treated consisting e.g. of iron or nickel is coated with 4a metal or non-metallic material the vaporization temperature of which is below the melting point of the material to be processed. The profile is then reduced,
  • the coating is removed by vaporization of the coating material to leave a bright surface.
  • the present lmeth-od includes the use of tin and lead as coating materials.
  • Another lobject ot the present invention is to pr-ovide the heat for the vaporization of the coating material by conducting an electric current through the material to be processed.
  • the coated wires with connecting electrodes are mounted in the bulb before the vaporization step of the coating material, and then the coating material is vaporized by passing a heating current through the wire.
  • the condensation of the vaporized coating material espe- 3,188,735 Patented June 15, 1965 ICC cially if this is a metallic one, is limited to predetermined areas of the envelope or bulb by differently cooling and heating the latter.
  • the heating may be done by HF- heating coils and the cooling by cooling jackets slipped over the envelope or bulb.
  • FIGURE l is a cross-section through a vacuum chamber for vaporizing the coating material
  • FIGURE 2 is a schematic view of an electric heating system .for tine wires enveloped in a closed bulb.
  • PIG. 3 is a how sheet of ⁇ the claimed process.
  • the thin metal wire is conducted through an electro-plating bath in which the coating material having a vaporization point substantially lower than the melting point of the wire is deposited on the wire.
  • the coated wire is drawn successively thnough ya number of dies until it is reduced to the desired thickness.
  • the wire is next connected across a pair of electrodes, in a container.
  • An inert gas is ulcerrod-uced into the container and the latter is closed. Current is passed through the coated wire, sufficient to vaporize the deposited coating Without melting the wire proper.
  • the wire freed of the coating is then removed from the container.
  • vacuurn chamber a with a suction pump b, said chamber comprising heating elements c for heat-ing the coated wires d, coils or' the like up to the vaporization point of the coating. material.
  • the coated and, e.g. already, coiled wire d is put into the vacuum chamber 1 for vaporizing the coating material.
  • FIGURE 2 shows a ⁇ tine wire stretched out in a bulb of glass when vaporizing4 the coating material.
  • resistor wire 11 already drawn and still coated with the material facilitating the drawing procedure is pro-vided with thicker electrodes or mounting wires 12 ⁇ and 13 at its both ends.
  • the mounting wires 12 and V13, respectively are connected to the ends of the resistor wire.
  • the resistor Wire 11 has .been fused into the glass bulb and the projection 15 of the glass bulb 14 is cl-osed by Imelting after the filling of the bulb 14 with some protective gas or the like.
  • the vaporizati-on of the material coating .the wire 11 is performed by closing the switch 16 so as to direct a current from the source 17 through the Wire 11, the current ⁇ being controlled by a resistor 1'8 in conjunction with the Vammeter v19.
  • the cross-section of the bulb portion surrounding the wires 12 and 13 is substantially reduced so that coils 20 .and ⁇ 211 may be slipped over the bulb end-portions and connected ⁇ directly to an HF-current generator 22 for creating within .the bulb 14 so high a at such locations will material to certain parts of the wall of the bul-b it is possible to provide at these parts an additional cooling, e.g. the cooling jacket 23 as shown in the drawings.
  • the envelope or bulb of the resistor need not necessarily Ibe of insulating material but may be of metal from which the connecting wires l2 and 13 are insulated;
  • the method according to the invention is not restricted to .wires but maybe adopted for other thin stretched metal proranges, eg. thin proenders suc-h as strips and bands as trans- -parent foils for capacitive surface illumination lby electro lluminescence may be produced by the described method. Further, very thin metal strips or small metal plates to be used for electrostatic screening and as a contrast lter inthe production lof cathode ray tubes may also be produced.
  • Apparatus for vaporizing a protective coating from very thin and bright meta-l Wires comprising an airtight container Which is provided with a pair of spaced electrodes adapted to be connected to the respective ends of a wire, for vaporizing a protective coating previously applied, .a low frequency electric current supply connected to said electrodes, the portion of the ⁇ container enclosing said electrodes being of a reduced cross-section, said apparatus comprising at least one high frequency coil for enclosing said portion, a high frequency generator connected to said coil, said generator being adapted to generate a high temperature in said end portion to thereby prevent condensation of the vaporized coating material on the Walls od said container.
  • a method of producing very thin stretched metal proles, suc-h as' thin Wires, strips, bands and the like, to be employed as resistors comprising coating thc surface of a thin metal prorate having a predetermined melting point with a metallic coating material having a predetermined vaporization point su'bstantlallylovver than the melting point of the metal prolile, ⁇ so as to provide a coated thicker metal proilile; reducing the cross-section of the coated proander by drawing the latter through a number of dies, connecting the respective ends of the proile to a pair of electrodes, fusing Ithe electrodes to a container, introducing an inert gas into the container,

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