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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2000
Petrus Cornelis Jozef Beentjes, Castricum, NL;
Willem Jan Van Veenen, Amsterdam, NL;
Corus Staal BV, Ca Ijmuiden, NL;
Abstract
Method of coating a metallic substrate ( ) with thermoplastic coating material, comprising a preheating the substrate in such as way that, just prior to coating, it is at a temperature between 70° C. and 150° C., preferably between 100° C. and 130° C. in the case of a coating containing polypropene and between 80 and 110° C. in the case of a coating containing polyethene; coextrusion, in the first coating station of a sheet ( ) comprising a polyolefin covering layer and a modified polyolefin adhesion layer; coating of the substrate ( ) with a molten sheet in the presence of ozone by pressing it with the adhesion layer against the surface of the substrate; transportation of the strip ( ) coated on one side to a second coating station and heating the strip so that, just before coating, the strip is at a temperature between 70° C. and 130° C., preferably between 80° C. and 120° C., if the coating layer applied in the first coating station is polypropene and between 80 and 110° C. if the coating layer applied at that point is polyethene; coating of the substrate with a molten sheet extruded in the second coating station by pressing it against the uncoated surface of the substrate, use being made of the presence of ozone; heating of the coated substrate so that it assumes a temperature which is above the melting point of the polyolefins applied; cooling of the coated substrate.