A.o. Smith Corporation

Aos Holding Company

Roger Alan Wallace

Ming C Kuo

Gary J Griffith

A porcelain enamel coating suitable for use on high-carbon content, heat-rolled sheet steel is provided. The coating includes a ground coat layer for coating directly onto the steel and a cover coat layer. The ground coat layer includes a soft ground coat frit having nickelous oxide dispersed substantially uniformly throughout. The resulting porcelain enamel coating provides good resistance to boiling defects, such as pinholes.

Porcelain enamel coating for high-carbon steel

A water-based inorganic coating formulation that contains no lead, and no organic matters, and provides for better control of the viscosity, the stability, the material separation, the homogeneity, and the re-crystallization properties of the formulation. This improved water-based inorganic coating formulation includes a water-based alkaline metal silicate solution, a pigment, and colloidal alumina dispersed within the coating formulation.

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Crittenden, KY, United States of America

Roger Alan Wallace