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John A Henricks

Robert Wild

This invention is directed to the formation of highly protective electroplated multi-metal coatings over an iron basis metal. The high degree of protection is obtained by the deposition of three sucessive layers of two dissimilar metal layers that form a galvanic cell in which one of the two adjacent metals is anodic to the other so that the corroding anodic electroplate will spread the attack laterally and thus prevent the corrosive media from drilling through to the base metal. The coating comprises an initial layer of sulfur free nickel followed in sucession by a sulfur containing bright nickel, cadmium, copper, sulfur free nickel, sulfur containing nickel and microporous chromium.

Multi-layer multi-metal electroplated protective coating

This invention is directed to a brightening system for zinc deposited from an acid zinc chloride electrolyte containing potassium chloride as a conducting salt and boric acid as a buffer. The active brightener in the system is an aromatic aldehyde or ketone which is dispersed into the electrolyte by a wetting agent system consisting essentially of a mixture of a fatty acid imidiazole sulfonate and a fatty diaminobetaine carboxylate; assisted by a hydrotrope selected from the group consisting of alcohol ethers, cyclic alcohols, and aromatic sulfonates. In some cases, this brightening system can be augmented by the prior art nicotinic acid, or polyamine zinc brightener.

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Oak Park, IL, United States of America

John A Henricks