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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 1984
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth D Baker, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Hans Scheider, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
OMI International Corporation, Warren, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D / ; C25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204 / ; 204 / ;
Abstract
An electroplating bath solution comprising an alkali metal or ammonium gold sulphite, a water soluble salt of thallium metal to effect brightening and grain refining, and a non-hydroxy, non-amino carboxylic acid such as formic acid and oxalic acid to ensure that the bright gold metal deposit has a hardness lower than about 90 Knoop. The method of depositing the bright gold metal on various substrates from such electroplating solutions is also described and claimed.