Moen Incorporated

James G Sheek

Inho Song

Timothy J O'Brien

Jeffrey D Wilder

Jarek Grembowicz

Brian S Bubar

Brenda L Trautman

Joseph E Preston

Darrell K May

A new article of manufacture, for example a faucet or other article of hardware, has a specified decorative color, and is resistant to corrosion, abrasion and attack by chemicals. The article includes a substrate, one or more corrosion resistant layers applied to the substrate, a thin transition layer having a composition that varies systematically from a first composition to a second composition and in which the first composition has, at least in part, the function of corrosion protection, and in which the second composition determines the visible color or that portion of the substrate to which the transition layer is applied.

Corrosion and abrasion resistant decorative coating

A new article of manufacture, for example a faucet or other article of hardware, has a specified decorative color, other than brass, and is resistant to corrosion, abrasion and attack by chemicals. The article includes a substrate, one or more corrosion resistant layers applied to the substrate, and an outer layer, applied by PVD, and chosen from only one or more of Zr, Hf, C and N. The outer layer provides the desired, other than brass, color of the article, the desired chemical and abrasion resistance, and which layer, when in contact with air or water becomes passive in a manner similar to chrome.

Decorative corrosion and abrasion resistant coating

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James G Sheek