US3558448A - Method of electroplating zinc and electrolyte therefor - Google Patents

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US3558448A
US3558448A US764337A US3558448DA US3558448A US 3558448 A US3558448 A US 3558448A US 764337 A US764337 A US 764337A US 3558448D A US3558448D A US 3558448DA US 3558448 A US3558448 A US 3558448A
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    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25DPROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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  • This invention relates to the zinc plating art, and is concerned with the provision of an improved electrolytic solution for zinc plating.
  • electrolytic deposits of zinc are generally made from a cyanided bath, the latter having a good penetrating power,
  • zinc baths with a pyrophosphate basis have the disadvantage of being expensive and must be employed at high temperature, and baths with a zincate basis present difiicu-lties due to anodic polarisation and formation of mud on the anodes.
  • the present invention has the object of remedying the greater part of these various disadvantages.
  • the invention there is introduced, into acidic aqueous electrolytes containing zinc salts, an organic additive which promotes the production of bright and level zinc coatings.
  • the utilization of these acid baths thus eliminates the special treatment of residual waters and enables treatment at ambient temperature.
  • the invention also has the object of introducing, in conjunction with the brightening agent, agents increasing the levelling power of the baths.
  • a zinc salt such as zinc sulphate
  • alkali metal or ammonium salt such as ammonium sulphate
  • a thio-semicarbazone compound forming the brightening agent A thio-semicarbazone compound forming the brightening agent.
  • R is an aryl group containing at least one hydroxy, alkyloxy or alkyleneoxy (--O--CH O) group
  • x is equal either to 0 or 1
  • y being 1 or 2
  • R is hydrogen or
  • the brightening agent can be prepared by condensing (a) an aldehyde of the RCHO form, in which R is an aryl group containing at least one hydroxy, alkyloxy or alkyleneoxy group, with (b) the thio-semicarbazide followed by a condensation of this product with the thiourea for producing a brightening agent of the formula:
  • the thiourea can firstly be condensed with aromatic aldehyde followed by a condensation of the reaction product with the thiosemicarbazide to give a compound of the formula:
  • the thiosemicarbazide can be replaced by dithiocarbamic acid to give compounds according to the Formulas l or 2 above, according to the order of adding the thiourea and the dithiocarbamic acid.
  • the RCHO aromatic aldeyhde can have hydroxy substituents, for instance, mono-hydroxybenzaldehyde or dihydroxybenzaldehyde with the hydroxy group in ortho, meta or para position in relation to the aldehyde group.
  • the aromatic ring can have other substituents in the form of alkyloxy groups, such as anisaldehyde or alkylene oxide rings such as piperonal, Alternatively, both hydroxy and alkyloxy groups can be present as in vanillaldehyde.
  • the brightening agent thus obtained can be used directly or after purifying.
  • the final condensation product in hydro-alcoholic solution is precipitated by adding a volume of water five or six times the initial volume. After filtering and washing on a filter with a small quantity of alcohol, the precipitate is re-dissolved in a solvent which can be an acetone alcohol mixture.
  • the electrolytic solution can also contain additional products enabling the brightness area to be increased, i.e., the possibility of utilizing current densities in a relatively wide scope, for instance, between 0.2 and a./dm. Moreover, these additives also improve the polish effect of the deposit. These additives can be utilized in association with the thiosemicarbazone compound mentioned above. Among these products, we can use alone, or in association with non-ionic tensioactive agents, for example, fatty alcohol derivatives and ethylene oxide or fatty acid and ethylene oxide or phenol alcohol and ethylene oxide derivatives especially nonyl-phenol on which to 13 ethylene oxide molecules are condensed. One can also use aliphatic diamines such as diamino ethylene, diamino propylene, diamino diethylene as Well as hexamethylenetetramine.
  • non-ionic tensioactive agents for example, fatty alcohol derivatives and ethylene oxide or fatty acid and ethylene oxide or phenol alcohol and ethylene oxide
  • Anionic surface-active products such, for instance, as sulphated alcohols of C8 to C12 chain length, or their salts, can also be used in the composition of the electrolytic solution in place of the non-ionic surface-active products described above or in association with them.
  • compositions also consists of using compounds of the imidazole group, and in particular that obtained by the action of an amine on glyoxal, for example, by action molecule by molecule of CHO--CHO glyoxal on the diethylenetriamine, the reaction taking place at a moderate temperature (40 to 80) in an aqueous medium, the diethylenetriamine being able to be replaced by ethylenediamine or diethylenediamine.
  • EXAMPLE I For depositing zinc on screws in bulk in a drum revolving appreciably at 10 r.p.m., and with a capacity of 50 kg. of parts, 1,000 litres of an aqueous electrolytic solution was used, containing:
  • the content of the brightening agent may be from 0.2 to 0.6 grams per liter and the content of the dispersing agent may be from 2 to 6 grams per liter.
  • the results were not appreciably altered by varying the quantity of zinc sulphate in a bracket of 100 to 250 g./l. and the ammonium sulphate or the ammonium chloride in a bracket of 50 to 200 g./l., taking the quantities into account indicated for the other products.
  • An electroplating bath for producing bright deposits of zinc comprising,
  • R is an arylic radical comprising at least one member of the group consisting of OH, O.CH and -OCH O; x is selected from the group consisting of O and 1 and y is selected from the group consisting of 1 and 2, the sum of x+y being 2; R is hydrogen, and
  • a complementary additive a significant amount of surface-active dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of non-ionic and anionic wetting agents.
  • the surface-active dispersing agent is a non-ionic wetting agent consisting of the condensation product of a fatty acid having 18 carbon atoms per molecule with 30 moles of ethylene oxide.
  • R is the radical of aldehyde methylene pyrocatechic (piperonal) 5.
  • Method of electroplating a bright deposit of zinc on a metal object which comprises passing electric current through said object as cathode immersed in a bath, said bath comprising an aqueous acidic solution of a zinc salt, an inorganic salt of an alkali metal of the group consisting of ammonium sulphate, ammonium chloride and ammonium citrate,
  • R is an arylic radical comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of OH, O--CH and OCH O; x is 0 or 1 and y is 1 or 2, the sum of x and y being 2; and R is hydrogen, and
  • R is the radical of the aldehyde methylene pyrocatechic (piperonal).

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US3770599A (en) * 1971-05-24 1973-11-06 Oxy Metal Finishing Corp Acid zinc plating baths
US4176017A (en) * 1979-01-31 1979-11-27 Oxy Metal Industries Corporation Brightening composition for acid zinc electroplating bath and process

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US3770599A (en) * 1971-05-24 1973-11-06 Oxy Metal Finishing Corp Acid zinc plating baths
US4176017A (en) * 1979-01-31 1979-11-27 Oxy Metal Industries Corporation Brightening composition for acid zinc electroplating bath and process

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