Abstract: Nickel and copper are plated over a thick anodic coating on an aluminum substrate as a step in the manufacture of printed circuit board substrates.

Abstract: A chromium-plated steel strip having an excellent weldability and a satisfactory resistance to corrosion, comprises a steel strip substrate, a base layer consisting of an amorphous metallic material, for example, Ni-P or Ni-B alloy, in an amount of 3 to 500 mg/m.sup.2, an intermediate layer consisting of tin in an amount of 2.8 g/m.sup.2 or less, and a surface layer consisting of metallic chromium and hydrated chromium oxide in an amount of 5 to 150 mg/m.sup.2 and 3 to 30 mg/m.sup.2, respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to mild steel sheet, having deposited on at least one of its major faces a sub-layer of tin in an amount of 0.1 to 1.05 g/l and a composite coating containing chronmium and chronmium oxide. The content of chromium in the composite coating is more than 5 .mu.g/cm.sup.2 while the content of chromium oxide in the coating, expressed in terms of chromium, is less than 2.5 .mu.g/cm.sup.2.The resultant sheets give improved welds when joined by electric welding and are particularly suited for making can bodies for food cans.

Abstract: A steel sheet plated with Pb-Sn alloy, suitable for use as the material of automobile fuel tanks for containing fuel having alcoholic content. The steel sheet has an NiSn alloy layer or a composite layer including a backing Ni layer and the NiSn alloy layer; the NiSn alloy layer or the composite layer being formed on the steel surface to have a thickness of 0.035 to 1.mu.; and a plating layer of Pb-Sn system alloy formed on the sole NiSn layer or the NiSn layer of the composite layer. The steel sheet plated with Pb-Sn alloy can be produced by plating the steel sheet with Ni backing, forming a Pb-Sn system alloy layer by a hot dip plating, and rapidly cooling the steel sheet. Alternatively, the steel sheet plated with Ni is subjected to successive electroplating with Sn and then with Pb, and is then treated at a specific temperature for melting and diffusing Sn into Ni to form the NiSn layer.

Abstract: In the preferred embodiment, a method is presented for filling depressions in fabricated steel surfaces by applying a metallic body solder consisting of 15 to 20 weight percent copper, 2 to 3 weight percent zinc and the balance tin. The body solder alloy is heated to a temperature above about 210.degree. C. to form a workable thixotropic paste that is applied with spreading onto the steel surface. Upon cooling, the body solder forms a dense, tightly adherent fill that is grindable and paintable in conjunction with the surrounding steel surface.

Abstract: A method of forming, by melt-spinning techniques, a laminated ribbon structure consisting, for example, of a semiconductor disposed on a metal ribbon substrate. The substrate may be 10-50 .mu.m thick and the semiconductor may be 10-50 .mu.m thick, for example; typically the ribbon width is about one millimeter to several centimeters.

Abstract: Manufacturing method and high-stress resistant product produced thereby. The method involves electro deposition by cathodic electrolysis of a thin metallic layer of the oxide of the metal molybdenum, on the surface of a metal workpiece. The workpiece, which could be solid or else a laminate such as a slide bearing, thus has an adaptation surface capable of withstanding extremely high surface pressures and/or high temperatures, and of preventing metallic-surface abrasion or galling, and dry friction.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a method is presented for filling depressions in fabricated steel surfaces by applying a metallic body solder consisting of 14 to 20 weight percent copper, 1 to 7.5 weight percent zinc, 0.5 to 1.5 weight percent iron and the balance tin. The body solder alloy is heated to form workable thixotropic paste that is applied with spreading onto the steel surface. Upon cooling, the body solder forms a dense, tightly adherent fill that is grindable and paintable in conjunction with the surrounding steel surface.

Abstract: A bearing laminate and method of producing the same, wherein a metallic suspension alloy having a tendency to dissociate is thermokinetically applied as a coating to a substrate, such coating in its solid state becoming dissociated. The substrate and the applied coating are mechanically compressed after the application and solidification of the latter. The surface of the substrate which receives the suspension alloy coating is especially prepared, either as a rough surfaced base or else as an aluminum or aluminum alloy surface having a surface activation and grain structure that is produced by a brief heating to a temperature between 450.degree. and the melting point of the aluminum or aluminum alloy, such heating destroying and removing the aluminum oxide.

Abstract: A plated member and method of producing the member. The plated member includes a chrome plating over a tin zinc sprayed coating on a prepared surface. The member is produced by acid stripping, cleaning, baking and re-cleaning the member to prepare the surface thereof, subsequently spray coating the prepared surface with a tin zinc material, abrading the surface of the tin zinc coated member to the desired form, and plating the cleaned, coated and abraded surface with two copper, two nickel and one chromium layers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bright welded seam can of tinplate having a side seam formed by welding, wherein each of the inner and outer surfaces of the side seam has an outermost surface layer having a thickness of 50 to 400 A and being composed of oxides and a subsequent intermediate layer composed of an iron-tin alloy, which has a thickness corresponding to 5 to 100% of the thickness of the whole tin layer in the tinplate blank, and wherein the inner and outer surfaces of the side seam have a reflectance corresponding to at least 60% of the reflectance of the tinplate.This bright welded seam can is excellent in the appearance of the seam, the corrosion resistance and the adhesion of the coating.

Abstract: A method of plating a metallic substrate by coating said substrate with a specific metallic system; plating at least one metal onto the coating; and heating the coated and plated metallic substrate to a temperature that effects a bonding of said metallic substrate to said coating and the plated metal. The method is utilized to plate metals onto metal substrates; including substrates such as aluminum and zinc.

Abstract: The interior side seam areas of tinplate can bodies exhibit improved resistance to corrosion by sulfur containing foods packaged therein when the side seam is soldered with a tin solder comprised of 0.1-0.5 percent by weight indium, 0.1-0.5 percent by weight bismuth, the remainder being tin.

Abstract: An anticorrosive overlapped coating so far practiced as applied to such iron and steel materials as plates, pipes, bars or wires is formed by electroplating an iron or steel material on the surface with an Sn base - Zn alloy layer and applying a chromate-treatment on it. However, this requires such long time in forming a plated layer thickness that a reduction of the plating time together with a further improvement of the anticorrosion is hoped for today. The present invention has succeeded in making it possible to reduce the plating time while improving the anticorrosion and in improving the productivity by forming an electroplated layer of an Sn base - Zn alloy directly or through an electroplated layer of Zn on the surface of a steel material, then forming an electroplated layer of Zn on the electroplated layer of said alloy and further applying a chromate-treatment on said Zn layer.

Abstract: A bearing metal for large size engines having excellent compatibility and as well as embeddability even when used under a poorly lubricated condition. Such bearing metal consists of three or four layers, including a layer of a bearing alloy which contains more than 50% and up to 65% by weight of tin, with the remainder being made up of aluminum, and which may also include less than 0.5% by weight of copper. This bearing alloy has a hardness at high temperature exceeding 100.degree. C. lying between that of aluminum-tin bearing alloys which contain up to 50% by weight of tin and that of tin base or lead base white metal bearing alloys.

Abstract: A multi-layer plating and method for improving the corrosion resistance of ferrous metal articles, such as steel fasteners, are provided in accordance with the invention. The multi-layer plating comprises, in sequence over a ferrous metal substrate, a layer of an alloy which has micro-throwing power, such as nickel-cadmium, nickel-zinc, iron-cadmium, iron-zinc, cobalt-cadmium, or cobalt-zinc, a layer of cadmium, cadmium-tin alloy, a dual layer of cadmium and tin, zinc or zinc alloy, a layer of copper, a layer of nickel, and a layer of chromium or a metallic chromium substitute. The method comprises plating, and preferably electroplating, the aforementioned layers of alloy and metals over an article having a ferrous metal substrate to obtain improved corrosion resistance.

Abstract: A multi-layer plating and method are provided for improved corrosion resistance of ferrous metal substrates and articles made therefrom. The multi-layer plating comprises a metallic coating comprising a layer of zinc or cadmium and a layer of tin, each of which are preferably between 0.00001 to 0.001 inches in thickness, followed by a layer, preferably between about 0.0001 to 0.000001 inches in thickness of either chromium or a metallic chromium substitute. The method comprises plating, and preferably electroplating, the aforementioned layers of metal over an article having ferrous metal base stock to obtain improved corrosion resistance.

Abstract: This invention is an alloy for use as a bearing lining as an alternative to the known "white metals".The alloy is predominantly of tin, but includes from 0.001 to 0.5% by weight of chromium and from 0.005 to 0.5% by weight of cobalt.The micro-structure is good and the alloy can be bonded to a steel backing, and is strong and ductile.

Abstract: A method of producing a highly corrosion resistant tin-plated steel sheet is disclosed by which a metal or alloy coating having a thickness from 0.005.mu. to 0.5.mu. and selected from the class consisting of Ni, Cu and Ni-Sn alloy is plated upon a steel sheet. The thus plated steel sheet is heated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to such an extent that said plated coating is penetrated and diffused into the steel sheet whereby a reformed steel sheet surface where said plating coating is disappeared is secured. A tin coating is then plated upon said reformed steel sheet surface. This reformed steel sheet surface is sandwiched between the plating tin coating and the steel sheet and contributes greatly to corrosion resistant property of the tin-plated steel sheet.

Abstract: A nickel or cobalt layer is electroplated from a fluoborate bath directly onto a lead or lead alloy or tin or tin alloy sublayer, which has been electroplated onto a metal surface. Microcracked chrome is electroplated over the nickel or cobalt layer. With a nonconductive plastic substrate, the sublayer is electroplated onto a metal film which was deposited on the plastic by an electroless method. The plated product includes a sublayer of about 0.05 to 2 mils lead or lead alloy or tin or tin alloy, a second layer of about 0.05 to 2 mils nickel or cobalt, and an outer layer of about 0.001 to 1 mil chrome.

Abstract: A metal sheet which is intended to be subjected to a drawing operation for the fabrication of a shaped metal part has on its surface a roughness in the form of plateau portions in relief defining between them recessed valley portions, the average ratio of the dimension of the valley portions to the dimension of the plateau portions in any direction on the surface of the sheet being from 1:1 to 3:1, preferably 3:2 to 5:2, the average dimension of the plateau portions being from 40 to 200 micrometers, preferably 60 to 120 micrometers and the height of the plateau portions being more than 6 micrometers, preferably 10 to 25 micrometers. This surface roughness reduces the risk of seizing during drawing even if the sheet is coated with a soft metal such as tin.

Abstract: A process for the production of a metal-ceramic article which comprises firing porcelain on to a metal substrate, the metal substrate having deposited thereon an adherent layer of a metal oxide which is wetted by the porcelain in the fused state.

Abstract: A magnetic disc of improved durability is provided which has an undercoating of a relatively thick tin-nickel layer with a cobalt-containing magnetic layer over said tin-nickel layer and having an oxidized surface.

Abstract: A process for treating a steel surface, comprising the steps of immersing the surface in a bath of molten tin at a temperature and for a period of time suitable to cause a layer of tin containing diffused iron to adhere to the surface and, after removal of the surface from the bath, removing a surface layer in which iron and tin accord substantially with the formula of Fe Sn.sub.2 so as to expose a layer in which iron and tin accord substantially to the formula Fe Sn.