US563723A - Coating metals by electrolysis - Google Patents
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- C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- C25D3/00—Electroplating: Baths therefor
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- C25D3/56—Electroplating: Baths therefor from solutions of alloys
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- My invention relates to coating or plating of metals as are subjected to rapid and permeating oxidation (iron and steel) galvanic- 2o ally with other metals, resisting the atmospheric influence, for the purpose of protecting such metals against disintegrating oxidation; and it consists of a process wherein basic salts of aluminium, and eventually also a basic salt 2 5 of the metal to be used for the coating or plating, are used in the bath and the same metal is made the anode.
- My improved process for galvanic plating of iron and steel with zinc or tin or with other 5 covering metals produces an equally thick, well-adhering coat, is equally effective for coating raw or finished cast and wrought iron and steel, and does not require any stronger electric current than commonly used for such purposes.
- This I obtain principally by using in the bath basic salts of aluminium by saturatingt-he solution to its utmost capacity with the coating metal and adding to it some organic substance. The same metal is also used as the anode.
- a sufficient neutralization of the bath is accomplished by saturating the solution of salt of aluminium with doctorsne metal and in the manner described above, that is, by using in an electrolytic bathbasic salts of aluminium, saturating the bath to its utmost capacity with the coating metal, and using an anode made of the same coating metal.
- I produce upon the metal to be coated a deposit of the coating metal containing a small percentage of aluminium chemically combined with the coating metal.
- the addition of aluminium to the coating metal tends to improve greatly the quality, durability, and also the appear ance of the coating.
- the bath for such coating or plating of cast or 7 5 wrought iron or of steel is prepared in the following manner:
- the solution of chlorid of aluminium may be saturated with ceremoniesne aluminium.
- chlorid of aluminium I mean Such chlorid of aluminium as can be procured in the market at reasonable price.
- This chlo- IO rid of aluminium is not chemically pure, containin g always some free acid, and the ceremoniesne metal is added to the bath in order to bind (neutralize) this free acid.
- Chemically-pure chlorids of aluminium are so expensive that I 5 their use in this process could not at all be taken into consideration.
- an equal quantity of chlorid of zinc (as chlorid of aluminium was used) is added, and after this is thoroughly dissolved and absorbed in the bath a further quantity (equal to 0.5 per cent.
- the coating metal (zinc, tin, tin and zinc, copper, or nickel) is made the anode.
- sulfates may be used as well.
- I add some organic acid to prevent the precipitation of the salts of aluminium in these baths, I add some organic acid (citforming double salts, easilysoluble in water.
- An electrolytic bath for coating metals composed of a solution of from five to eight parts of commercial chlorid of aluminium containing free acid in one hundred parts or water and of so much of ceremoniesne coatin metal, as will dissolve therein, while the bath is heated to the boiling-point, and from twotenths to three-tenths of 'a part of chlorid. of the coating metal.
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Description
UNITED STATES PATENT- FliirCE.
HANS ALEXANDER, ()F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS POTTIIOFF,
' OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.
COATING METALS BY ELECTROLYSIS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,723, dated July 14, 1896.
Application filed J 1 31, 1895. Serial No, 557,749. (No specimens.) Patented in Germany M 13, 1887,1Io. 45,220,11e-
cember 8, 1887, No. 47;;57, and December 28, 1888, No. 49,826, and in Austria-Hungary October 4, 1890, No. 5,125 and To all whmn it ntay concern:
Be it known that I, Hans ALEXANDER, P11. 1)., a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, Ger- 5 many, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coating Metals with Zinc, Tin, Tin and Zinc, also with Nickel and with Copper, (for which patents were granted to me in Germany May 13, 1887, No. 45,220, De-
: cember 3, 1887, No. 47,457, and December 28, 1888, No. 49,826, and in Austria-Hungary October at, 1890, Nos. 5,125 and 39,520,) and of these improvements the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, disclosing the I process and also the means and materials used therein.
My invention relates to coating or plating of metals as are subjected to rapid and permeating oxidation (iron and steel) galvanic- 2o ally with other metals, resisting the atmospheric influence, for the purpose of protecting such metals against disintegrating oxidation; and it consists of a process wherein basic salts of aluminium, and eventually also a basic salt 2 5 of the metal to be used for the coating or plating, are used in the bath and the same metal is made the anode.
The processes heretofore known and used for galvanic zinc-plating do not produce an 0 adhesive equally thick and lasting coat upon iron, and therefore a bath of molten metal is used for the purpose, though galvanic plating would for many reasons be preferable.
I have found that in plating of iron and 5 steel (and also of other metals) with zinc the best results are obtained when the bath is prepared by saturating a (heated) solution of chlorid of aluminium with reguline zinc, whereby a plating is obtained containing a small percentage of aluminium, this addition of aluminium rendering the platingmore compact, smooth, and durable.
My improved process for galvanic plating of iron and steel with zinc or tin or with other 5 covering metals produces an equally thick, well-adhering coat, is equally effective for coating raw or finished cast and wrought iron and steel, and does not require any stronger electric current than commonly used for such purposes. This I obtain principally by using in the bath basic salts of aluminium by saturatingt-he solution to its utmost capacity with the coating metal and adding to it some organic substance. The same metal is also used as the anode.
A sufficient neutralization of the bath is accomplished by saturating the solution of salt of aluminium with reguline metal and in the manner described above, that is, by using in an electrolytic bathbasic salts of aluminium, saturating the bath to its utmost capacity with the coating metal, and using an anode made of the same coating metal. I produce upon the metal to be coated a deposit of the coating metal containing a small percentage of aluminium chemically combined with the coating metal. The addition of aluminium to the coating metal tends to improve greatly the quality, durability, and also the appear ance of the coating.
For all kinds of iron a coating or plating composed of zinc or tin, or of zinc and tin with a small percentage of aluminium, added in the bath, will be found the best suitable. The bath for such coating or plating of cast or 7 5 wrought iron or of steel is prepared in the following manner:
First. To a solution containing in one hundred parts of water from five to eight per cent. of chlorid of aluminium is added so much of reguline zinc or tin, or of zinc and tin) as it will dissolve. While the metal is being dissolved, the solution must be kept constantly boiling, and the water evaporated in the process must be continually replaced. The sat- S5 uration of the bath with the reguline metal is continued until no more of it is dissolved. Then a small quantity (from 0.2 to 0.3 per cent.) of chlorid of ZlllC or of tin, orof both) is added and the heating of the bath continued go for about thirty minutes longer, whereupon it is allowed to cool down and will be ready for use when cold.
Second. Instead of heating the solution of chlorid of aluminium and keeping it boiling, while it is being saturated with the reguline metal, this may also be done electrolytically. In this case the reguline metal is made the 5 of aluminium dissolved therein.
anode and the action of the electric current con tiuued until the bath is saturated with the dissolved metal to its fullest capacity.
Third. Instead of zinc or tin or Zinc and tin,
5 the solution of chlorid of aluminium may be saturated with reguline aluminium. In speaking of chlorid of aluminium, I mean Such chlorid of aluminium as can be procured in the market at reasonable price. This chlo- IO rid of aluminium is not chemically pure, containin g always some free acid, and the reguline metal is added to the bath in order to bind (neutralize) this free acid. Chemically-pure chlorids of aluminium are so expensive that I 5 their use in this process could not at all be taken into consideration. Then an equal quantity of chlorid of zinc (as chlorid of aluminium was used) is added, and after this is thoroughly dissolved and absorbed in the bath a further quantity (equal to 0.5 per cent.
of the chlorid of aluminium used) of chlorid of tin is added, the bath kept boiling for about thirty minutes longer-,and then allowed to cool down.
For producing galvanic depositions of copper, tin, and nickel, alloyed with aluminium, I use a bath containing a solution of chlorid of aluminium, saturated with reguline aluminium, towhich I add a basic salt, prefero ably a sulfate of the metal to be used for coating; consequently for coating with copper, sulfate of copper; for coating with tin, sulfate of tin, and for coating with nickel, sulfate of nickel.
In all of these baths the coating metal (zinc, tin, tin and zinc, copper, or nickel) is made the anode. Instead of chlorids of the metals, sulfates may be used as well. To prevent the precipitation of the salts of aluminium in these baths, I add some organic acid (citforming double salts, easilysoluble in water.
This function of the organic acids is elaborately explained on page (52 of Mediuss Geruiclttu lnaly se, published at Tubingen, 1887, and also on page 130 of Remigius Freseniuss 55 Anlcitzmg .z'm' Qualitatiucn Chemischen Aw aZ g se, published by Vieweg d: Son, Brannschweig, 1886, fifteenth edition. Aluminium is known to have a strong tendency to form basic salts. Basic salts are very hardly soluble in water, and would therefore readily precipitate. By transforming them into double salts, which are easily soluble in wa ter, the basic salts are maintained in solution. Also small quantities of chlorid or sulfate or of nitrate of mercury may be added, these additions improving considerably the quality of the deposit of the coating metal. To improve the electrolytic conductivity. smallquantities of alkaline salts maybe added to the baths.
Having thus disclosed the nature and utility of my invention, I claimand desire to secure by Letters Patent.
1. An electrolytic bath for coating metals. composed of a solution of from five to eight parts of commercial chlorid of aluminium containing free acid in one hundred parts or water and of so much of reguline coatin metal, as will dissolve therein, while the bath is heated to the boiling-point, and from twotenths to three-tenths of 'a part of chlorid. of the coating metal.
2. The process of preparing an electrolytic bath for coating of metals, consisting of following steps: first, dissolving a quantity of five to eight parts of chlorid of aluminium in one hundred parts of water; second, heat ing the solution to boiling, and while kept boiling, adding to it of such quantit of reguline coating metal, as will dissolve therein; third, adding to the solution of about two-tenths to three-tenths of a part of chlorid of the coating metal and keeping the bath boiling for about thirty'minutes longer and then allowing it to cool down.
8. The process of coating galvanically metals, subjected to rapid oxidation, with metallic alloys, containing a small percentage aluminium, consisting in subjecting the metals to the action of an electric current in an electrolytic bath, composed of a solution of five to eight parts of commercial chlorid of aluminium, dissolved in one hundred parts of water and of so much of reguline metal as will dissolve therein, with some organic acid added to the bath, and using an anode, made of the metal, forming the principal component of the coating alloy.
In witness that I claim the improvements described in the foregoing specification I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.
IIANS ALEXANDER.
\Vitnesscs:
CARL IIULDSOHINSKY, PAUL FRANKY.
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