US2569097A - Method of coating ferrous metal with aluminum or an aluminum alloy - Google Patents

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US2569097A
US2569097A US211977A US21197751A US2569097A US 2569097 A US2569097 A US 2569097A US 211977 A US211977 A US 211977A US 21197751 A US21197751 A US 21197751A US 2569097 A US2569097 A US 2569097A
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  • the primary object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical and inexpensive process of producing an aluminum or aluminum base alloy coated ferrous metal product of high quality.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a process of forming a composite product or article comprising steel coated with aluminum or an aluminum base alloy that has a high degree of formability as compared with the products produced by prior methods.
  • Steel or ferrous metal of any shape can be coated with pure aluminum or aluminum base alloys by the method of this invention.
  • the process may be a continuous one if desired, especially when the metal being coated is sheet, wire or rod stock.
  • the steel or other ferrous metal to be coated is preferably first degreased in any suitable manner as by means of an alkali cleaner or by use of suitable solvents. After degreasing the steel, if severely rusted or sealed, it is preferably pickled in a water solution of hydrochloric acid in the known and accepted manner of such acid cleaning. After pickling, the steel or other ferrous metal may be immersed in a flux such as one composed of 32 parts of zinc chloride, 8 parts of ammonium chloride and 60 parts of water, all measurements by weight. The foregoing flux is given as a typical example of a zinc chloride type flux which may be used. After treating in the steel fluxing medium just described, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of our invention, the steel or other ferrous metal is immersed in a molten salt floating on top of a molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy coating bath.
  • the salt is maintained at a temperature some what above the melting point of the aluminum or the aluminum base alloy.
  • the steel or other ferrous metal is left in the fused salt a suflicient time to heat the metal to or above the melting point of the aluminum or aluminum base alloy.
  • the heated steel or other ferrous metal is passed from the heated salt to the molten aluminum or aluminum alloy bath.
  • the molten salt bath must be one capable of dissolving aluminum and iron oxides. The following is a specific salt bath that we have found to be highly satisfactory:
  • KCl Per cent Potassium chloride
  • NaCl Sodium chloride
  • Nas'AlFs Cryolite
  • AlFs Aluminum fluoride
  • the salt bath has a melting point of about 1180 F.
  • Addition of a small amount of lithium chloride to the above composition lowers the melting point thereof. For example, addition of about 20% lithium chloride lowers the melting point to about 1075 F.
  • the exact composition of the salt bath is not critical and the proportions of potassium chloride, sodium chloride, cryolite and aluminum fluoride may be varied from the above.
  • the potassium chloride may range from about 37 to 57%, the sodium chloride from about 25 to 45%, the cryolite from about 8 to 20% and the aluminum fluoride from about 0.5 to 12%.
  • the bath composition usually preferred is one that will become molten when heated to 1200 F. or somewhat lower. While in theforegoing examples the double salt NaaAlFs (cryolite) is given it should be understood that an equivalent amount of this component may be supplied in the form of the single salts, sodium fluoride and aluminum fluoride. We have found that it is essential to provide an excess of AIF: over that of the cryolite ratio in order to obtain the desired results. a
  • the temperature of the fused salt bath is maintained during operation at a temperature within the approximate range of 1250 to 1600 F. In general a temperature of 1300 to 1400 F. is preferred.
  • the molten metal coating bath may be pure aluminum or an aluminum base alloy.
  • the aluminum base alloys contain about 80% or more of aluminum
  • One aluminum base alloy that is particularly advantageous is one composed of about to 15% silicon and the balance aluminum. This alloy has a relatively low melting temperature, 1. e. eutectic at 12% silicon and has high fluidity, both of these properties being highly advantageous in forming relatively non-brittle coatings. Effective drainage of excess coating metal is obtained because of the high fluidity.
  • Specific examples of other aluminum base alloys are the following: of 4% copper and the balance aluminum, an alloy composed of about 7% tin and 93% aluminum, and alloys containing 5 to 20% zinc and the balance aluminum. These specific examples are referred to merely for purpose of illustration and not of limitation.
  • the temperature I of the aluminum or aluminum base alloy coating bath be maintained at a temperature of about 1250-1325 F. Temperatures of about 1150" F. to about 1600 F. are suitable, however, for the aluminum base alloys. Pure aluminum melts at about 1218 F. Consequently in employing pure aluminum as the coating metal a temperature of at least 1218 F. must be used. The upper temperature employed with pure aluminum as the coating metal is also about 1600 F.
  • the coated steel or other ferrous metal After passing through the fused salt flux and into the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy bath the coated steel or other ferrous metal emerges from the coating bath through the molten salt layer. There. is a tendency to form a thicker or heavier coating of aluminum or aluminum alloy than desired.
  • By passing the coated ferrous metal slowly through the molten salt on emerging excess molten coating metal is drained off, or the coated ferrous metal may be held in the fused salt after removal from the coating bath whereby excess coating metal may drain off.
  • the coated ferrous metal after removal, or as it is being removed from the aluminum or aluminum alloy bath may be vibrated rapidly or treated in other equivalent manner (rotate rapidly for example), in order to remove excess molten or mushy coating metal. Excess coating metal also may be removed by an air blast.
  • the coated steel or other ferrous metal is then cooled or allowed to cool.
  • the excess flux may be removed as by washing, for example or the coated ferrous metal may be passed through rollers to remove the flux and to provide a desirable flnish to the coated product.
  • Water or other quenching mediums may be employed to cool the coated ferrous metal.
  • the steel or ferrous metal may be, if desired, preheated before being immersed in the fused salt bath. This permits smaller quantities of salt and smaller sized salt bath heating means. If the preheating step is employed, it is preferred to heat the metal to be coated under such conditions that the surface thereof is not oxidized. For this purpose heating in a non-oxidizin or reducing atmosphere furnace such as one employan alloy composed ing hydrogen, Drycolene, etc. may be employed.
  • the preheating temperature preferably the range of 1200 to 1600 I".
  • the time of immersion in the fused salt bath may be as little as one or two seconds if the parts are free of complicated recesses. More complicated shapes may require a longer time in order to ensure that the fused salt thoroughl cover or coat the parts to be coated with aluminum or aluminum alloy. Where the steel or other ferrous metal has iron oxides on the surface thereof longer times will be required in order to provide clean steel surfaces.
  • sufficient time is required to bring the steel or other ferrous metal to a temperature at least as high as, and preferably somewhat above, the melting point of aluminum or the aluminum base alloy to be employed as the coating material. The time will, of course. depend on the gage and dimensions of the ferrous metal and on the size and thermal efficiency of the salt bath. Holding the ferrous metal in the fused salt for extended periods is not harmful.
  • the time of immersion in the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy bath may vary from as little as one or two seconds up to several minutes, depending somewhat on the degree of complication of recesses, etc., in the part being processed.
  • a relatively short period of immersion is desirable to prevent excessive formation of brittle ironaluminum alloys.
  • the ferrous metal being coated is held in the molten aluminum or aluminum alloy bath ten seconds or ess.
  • separate containers and heating means may be employed for the salt bath and the coating metal bath.
  • the fused salt bath must be activated by aluminum in or in contact with the fused salt in order to provide; effective fluxing action.
  • the fused salt is on top of the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy as described above, the proper activity of the molten salt is obtained.
  • a separate salt bath and a separate aluminum or aluminum base alloy coating bath are employed, it is essential to activate the fused salt. This may be done by employing an aluminum or aluminum alloy coated container for the fused salt, or aluminum or aluminum alloy can be added to the salt.
  • the aluminum or aluminum alloy may be added by immersing a bar or sheet of the metal in the fused salt bath. The bar orsheet soon melts and goes to the bottom of the salt bath.
  • the cold ferrous metal in passing through the layer of activated molten salt flux will become coated with a layer of the flux which may solidify, but which will again become molten after suflicient time of contact with the molten aluminumor aluminum base alloy coatinz bath is within v or aluminum base alloy coating bath, so long as the salt coating if allowed to solidify on the ferrous metal is not cracked or-broken prior to immersion in the molten aluminum coating metal bath and so'long as the ferrous metal'is permitted to remain in the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy fora-time and at a temperature suificient to reheat the ferrous metal and salt coating to a temperature of about 1250 F. or higher.
  • metal b heating the steel or other ferrous metal in .the' molten salt bath described herein, maintained at a temperature below that of the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy and, while the salt coating on the ferrous metalis still molten, immersing the ferrous metal and salt coating in a molten aluminum or aluminum basd alloy coating bath and heating the same to a temperature within the range of about l250 to 1600F.
  • a method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the ferrous metal in afused salt bath composed about as follows:
  • said fused salt bath being activated by aluminum in contact with the fused salt; said fused salt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1250 15'. to 1600 lit, said ferrous metal having a temperature at least as high as the melting point of the said coating metal while in said activated salt bath. then immersing the ferrous metal in a molten bath of said coating metal while the ferrous metal is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said metal coating bath and thereafter removing the coated ferrous metal from said metal coating bath.
  • a method as in claim 1 in which the ferrous metal is immersed in the fused salt bath while the ferrous metal is at room temperature and is heated in the fused salt to a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal.
  • a method as in claim 1 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the V ferrous metal after removal from the coating bath and before the coating metal on the ferrous metal has completely solidified.
  • said fused salt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1250to 1600 F. and floating on top of a molten bath of said coating metal immersing the ferrous metal in the molten coating metal bath while the ferrous metal is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal, and removing the coated ferrous metal through the said fused salt.
  • a method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the ferrous metal in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
  • KC 35%. NaCl 12%, NaaAlFc 6%, AlFa said fused salt being activated by aluminum in contact therewith, said fused salt being maintained at a temperature within the range of about 1250 F. to 1600 F., said ferrous metal having a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal while in said'activated salt bath, then immersing the ferrous metal in a molten bath of said coating metal while the ferrous metal is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal, and thereafter removing .the coated ferrous metal from said bath of molten coating metal bath.
  • a method as in claim 6 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the ferrous metal after removal from the coating metal bath and before the coating on the ferrous metal has completely solidified.
  • a method of coating steel with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the steel in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
  • said fusedsalt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1250 to 1600 F, and floating on top of a molten bath of said coating metal, lowering the steel into said coating metal bath 7 while the steel is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal, and removing the treated steel through the said fused salt.
  • a method of coating steel with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises heating the steel in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
  • said salt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1300 F. to 1400 F.
  • said fused salt bath being activated by aluminum in contact therewith, the steel being heated to a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal while insaid fused salt bath, then immersing the heated steel in a bath of said coating metal heated within the range of about 1250 F. to 1325" F. for a time within the range of one to about ten seconds, and then removing the coated steel from the molten metal bath.
  • a method as in claim 12 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the steel after removal of the steel from the coating metal bath and before the coating on the steel has completely solidified, thereby forming a relatively thin coating on the steel.
  • KCl 25 to 45%.
  • NaCl 8 to NaaAlFs 0.5 to 12%, AlFa said molten salt bath being maintained at a temperature within the range of about 1250-1600 8' F. while the ferrous metal is immersed therein, said molten salt bath having aluminum in contact therewith.
  • a method as in claim 11 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the steel after removal of the steel from the coating metal bath and before the coating on the steel has solidified, thereby forming a relatively thin coating on the steel.
  • the method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises passing ferrous metal into and out of said coating metal bath through a molten salt bath floating on said molten coating metal bath, said molten salt bath consisting essentially as follows:
  • said molten salt bath being maintained at a temperature of about-1250-1600 F. while the ferrous metal is passing therethrough.

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Patented Sept. 25, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE METHOD OF COATING FERROUS METAL WITH ALUMINUM OR AN ALUMINUM ALLOY Howard L. Grange, Darlington, Wis., and Dean K. Hanink, Birmingham, Mich., assignors to General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich., a
corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Application February 20, 1951, Serial No. 211,977
17 Claims.
Among the advantages of aluminum coated steel are good resistance to acid attack and good resistance to heat.
Methods have been proposed heretofore for coating steel with aluminum by hot dipping. However, prior art methods of which we are aware have been impractical commercially or have been complicated and the coated product produced thereby quite expensive. In addition, brittle iron-aluminum compounds are formed between the steel and aluminum which materially limits the formability of this composite heatresistant material. Accordingly there has been only a limited commercial use of hot dipped aluminum coated steel.
The primary object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical and inexpensive process of producing an aluminum or aluminum base alloy coated ferrous metal product of high quality.
Another object of the invention is to provide a process of forming a composite product or article comprising steel coated with aluminum or an aluminum base alloy that has a high degree of formability as compared with the products produced by prior methods.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will become more apparent from the detailed description which follows.
Steel or ferrous metal of any shape can be coated with pure aluminum or aluminum base alloys by the method of this invention. The process may be a continuous one if desired, especially when the metal being coated is sheet, wire or rod stock.
The steel or other ferrous metal to be coated is preferably first degreased in any suitable manner as by means of an alkali cleaner or by use of suitable solvents. After degreasing the steel, if severely rusted or sealed, it is preferably pickled in a water solution of hydrochloric acid in the known and accepted manner of such acid cleaning. After pickling, the steel or other ferrous metal may be immersed in a flux such as one composed of 32 parts of zinc chloride, 8 parts of ammonium chloride and 60 parts of water, all measurements by weight. The foregoing flux is given as a typical example of a zinc chloride type flux which may be used. After treating in the steel fluxing medium just described, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of our invention, the steel or other ferrous metal is immersed in a molten salt floating on top of a molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy coating bath.
The salt is maintained at a temperature some what above the melting point of the aluminum or the aluminum base alloy. The steel or other ferrous metal is left in the fused salt a suflicient time to heat the metal to or above the melting point of the aluminum or aluminum base alloy. The heated steel or other ferrous metal is passed from the heated salt to the molten aluminum or aluminum alloy bath. The molten salt bath must be one capable of dissolving aluminum and iron oxides. The following is a specific salt bath that we have found to be highly satisfactory:
. Per cent Potassium chloride (KCl) 47 Sodium chloride (NaCl) 35 Cryolite (Nas'AlFs) 12 Aluminum fluoride (AlFs) 6 The salt bath has a melting point of about 1180 F.
Addition of a small amount of lithium chloride to the above composition lowers the melting point thereof. For example, addition of about 20% lithium chloride lowers the melting point to about 1075 F.
The exact composition of the salt bath is not critical and the proportions of potassium chloride, sodium chloride, cryolite and aluminum fluoride may be varied from the above. For example, the potassium chloride may range from about 37 to 57%, the sodium chloride from about 25 to 45%, the cryolite from about 8 to 20% and the aluminum fluoride from about 0.5 to 12%. The bath composition usually preferred is one that will become molten when heated to 1200 F. or somewhat lower. While in theforegoing examples the double salt NaaAlFs (cryolite) is given it should be understood that an equivalent amount of this component may be supplied in the form of the single salts, sodium fluoride and aluminum fluoride. We have found that it is essential to provide an excess of AIF: over that of the cryolite ratio in order to obtain the desired results. a
The temperature of the fused salt bath is maintained during operation at a temperature within the approximate range of 1250 to 1600 F. In general a temperature of 1300 to 1400 F. is preferred.
The molten metal coating bath may be pure aluminum or an aluminum base alloy. In general the aluminum base alloys contain about 80% or more of aluminum One aluminum base alloy that is particularly advantageous is one composed of about to 15% silicon and the balance aluminum. This alloy has a relatively low melting temperature, 1. e. eutectic at 12% silicon and has high fluidity, both of these properties being highly advantageous in forming relatively non-brittle coatings. Effective drainage of excess coating metal is obtained because of the high fluidity. Specific examples of other aluminum base alloys are the following: of 4% copper and the balance aluminum, an alloy composed of about 7% tin and 93% aluminum, and alloys containing 5 to 20% zinc and the balance aluminum. These specific examples are referred to merely for purpose of illustration and not of limitation.
At present it is preferred that the temperature I of the aluminum or aluminum base alloy coating bath be maintained at a temperature of about 1250-1325 F. Temperatures of about 1150" F. to about 1600 F. are suitable, however, for the aluminum base alloys. Pure aluminum melts at about 1218 F. Consequently in employing pure aluminum as the coating metal a temperature of at least 1218 F. must be used. The upper temperature employed with pure aluminum as the coating metal is also about 1600 F.
After passing through the fused salt flux and into the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy bath the coated steel or other ferrous metal emerges from the coating bath through the molten salt layer. There. is a tendency to form a thicker or heavier coating of aluminum or aluminum alloy than desired. By passing the coated ferrous metal slowly through the molten salt on emerging excess molten coating metal is drained off, or the coated ferrous metal may be held in the fused salt after removal from the coating bath whereby excess coating metal may drain off. The coated ferrous metal after removal, or as it is being removed from the aluminum or aluminum alloy bath, may be vibrated rapidly or treated in other equivalent manner (rotate rapidly for example), in order to remove excess molten or mushy coating metal. Excess coating metal also may be removed by an air blast.
The coated steel or other ferrous metal is then cooled or allowed to cool. The excess flux may be removed as by washing, for example or the coated ferrous metal may be passed through rollers to remove the flux and to provide a desirable flnish to the coated product. Water or other quenching mediums may be employed to cool the coated ferrous metal.
The steps of degreasins. pickling and immersing in the zinc chloride type of flux are not essential to the process, as the step of heating in the described fused salt prior to immersing in the aluminum or aluminum alloy bath will provide a clean surface on the ferrous metal unless it is exceptionally contaminated to begin with.
The steel or ferrous metal may be, if desired, preheated before being immersed in the fused salt bath. This permits smaller quantities of salt and smaller sized salt bath heating means. If the preheating step is employed, it is preferred to heat the metal to be coated under such conditions that the surface thereof is not oxidized. For this purpose heating in a non-oxidizin or reducing atmosphere furnace such as one employan alloy composed ing hydrogen, Drycolene, etc. may be employed.
The preheating temperature preferably the range of 1200 to 1600 I".
When the steel or other ferrous metal is preheated to the temperature of the fused salt bath in a reducing temperature and is free of oxides of iron and other foreign matter, the time of immersion in the fused salt bath may be as little as one or two seconds if the parts are free of complicated recesses. More complicated shapes may require a longer time in order to ensure that the fused salt thoroughl cover or coat the parts to be coated with aluminum or aluminum alloy. Where the steel or other ferrous metal has iron oxides on the surface thereof longer times will be required in order to provide clean steel surfaces. when the preheating step is not employed, sufficient time is required to bring the steel or other ferrous metal to a temperature at least as high as, and preferably somewhat above, the melting point of aluminum or the aluminum base alloy to be employed as the coating material. The time will, of course. depend on the gage and dimensions of the ferrous metal and on the size and thermal efficiency of the salt bath. Holding the ferrous metal in the fused salt for extended periods is not harmful.
The time of immersion in the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy bath may vary from as little as one or two seconds up to several minutes, depending somewhat on the degree of complication of recesses, etc., in the part being processed. A relatively short period of immersion is desirable to prevent excessive formation of brittle ironaluminum alloys. Ordinarily, therefore, the ferrous metal being coated is held in the molten aluminum or aluminum alloy bath ten seconds or ess.
If desired, separate containers and heating means may be employed for the salt bath and the coating metal bath. We have found that the fused salt bath must be activated by aluminum in or in contact with the fused salt in order to provide; effective fluxing action. Where the fused salt is on top of the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy as described above, the proper activity of the molten salt is obtained. Where a separate salt bath and a separate aluminum or aluminum base alloy coating bath are employed, it is essential to activate the fused salt. This may be done by employing an aluminum or aluminum alloy coated container for the fused salt, or aluminum or aluminum alloy can be added to the salt. The aluminum or aluminum alloy may be added by immersing a bar or sheet of the metal in the fused salt bath. The bar orsheet soon melts and goes to the bottom of the salt bath.
The procedures described above constitute preferred embodiments of processing in accordance with our invention. However, it is possible to obtain satisfactory coatings of aluminum or aluminum base alloy on ferrous metal by a departure from the conditions of the preferred embodiments. For example, it is possible to immerse the ferrous metal in a molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy bath on which is floating a relatively thin layer of a molten or fused salt bath of the composition described in connection with the preferred embodiments of the invention at a temperature within the range of 1250 to 1600 F. The cold ferrous metal in passing through the layer of activated molten salt flux will become coated with a layer of the flux which may solidify, but which will again become molten after suflicient time of contact with the molten aluminumor aluminum base alloy coatinz bath is within v or aluminum base alloy coating bath, so long as the salt coating if allowed to solidify on the ferrous metal is not cracked or-broken prior to immersion in the molten aluminum coating metal bath and so'long as the ferrous metal'is permitted to remain in the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy fora-time and at a temperature suificient to reheat the ferrous metal and salt coating to a temperature of about 1250 F. or higher. It is possible, also,'t'o obtain satisfactory coatings of aluminum or aluminum base alloy on ferrous. metal b heating the steel or other ferrous metal in .the' molten salt bath described herein, maintained at a temperature below that of the molten aluminum or aluminum base alloy and, while the salt coating on the ferrous metalis still molten, immersing the ferrous metal and salt coating in a molten aluminum or aluminum basd alloy coating bath and heating the same to a temperature within the range of about l250 to 1600F.
Various changes and modifications of the embodiments of our invention described herein may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention.
We claim:
1. A method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the ferrous metal in afused salt bath composed about as follows:
3'7 1'0 57%, KCI
25 to 45%, NaCl 8 to 20%, NaaAlFe 0.5 to 12%. All:
said fused salt bath being activated by aluminum in contact with the fused salt; said fused salt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1250 15'. to 1600 lit, said ferrous metal having a temperature at least as high as the melting point of the said coating metal while in said activated salt bath. then immersing the ferrous metal in a molten bath of said coating metal while the ferrous metal is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said metal coating bath and thereafter removing the coated ferrous metal from said metal coating bath.
2. A method as in claim 1 in which the ferrous metal is preheated to substantially the temperature of the salt bath before being immersed therein.
3. A method as in claim 1 in which the ferrous metal is immersed in the fused salt bath while the ferrous metal is at room temperature and is heated in the fused salt to a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal.
4. A method as in claim 1 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the V ferrous metal after removal from the coating bath and before the coating metal on the ferrous metal has completely solidified.
5. The method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the ferrous metal in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
37 to 57%, KCl 25 to 45%, NaCl 8 to 20%, NaaAlFc 0.5 to 12%, All:
said fused salt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1250to 1600 F. and floating on top of a molten bath of said coating metal immersing the ferrous metal in the molten coating metal bath while the ferrous metal is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal, and removing the coated ferrous metal through the said fused salt.
6. A method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the ferrous metal in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
47%. KC] 35%. NaCl 12%, NaaAlFc 6%, AlFa said fused salt being activated by aluminum in contact therewith, said fused salt being maintained at a temperature within the range of about 1250 F. to 1600 F., said ferrous metal having a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal while in said'activated salt bath, then immersing the ferrous metal in a molten bath of said coating metal while the ferrous metal is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal, and thereafter removing .the coated ferrous metal from said bath of molten coating metal bath.
7. A method as in claim 6 in which the ferrous metal is preheated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to substantially the temperature of the salt bath before being immersed therein.
8. A method as in claim 6 in which the ferrous metal is immersed in the fused salt bath while the ferrous metal is at room temperature and is heated in said fused salt bath until it is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal.
9. A method as in claim 6 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the ferrous metal after removal from the coating metal bath and before the coating on the ferrous metal has completely solidified.
10. A method as in claim 6 in which separate salt and coating baths are employed and the ferrous metal is heated from room temperature to a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal while in said fused salt bath and is then quickly transferred to the coating bath.
11. A method of coating steel with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises immersing the steel in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
47%. KCl
35%, NaCl 12%, NaaAlFs 6%. All:
said fusedsalt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1250 to 1600 F, and floating on top of a molten bath of said coating metal, lowering the steel into said coating metal bath 7 while the steel is at a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal, and removing the treated steel through the said fused salt.
12. A method of coating steel with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises heating the steel in a fused salt bath composed approximately as follows:
47% KCl 35%, NaCl 12%, NaaAlFa 6%, AlFa said salt bath being at a temperature within the range of about 1300 F. to 1400 F., said fused salt bath being activated by aluminum in contact therewith, the steel being heated to a temperature at least as high as the melting point of said coating metal while insaid fused salt bath, then immersing the heated steel in a bath of said coating metal heated within the range of about 1250 F. to 1325" F. for a time within the range of one to about ten seconds, and then removing the coated steel from the molten metal bath.
13. A method as in claim 12 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the steel after removal of the steel from the coating metal bath and before the coating on the steel has completely solidified, thereby forming a relatively thin coating on the steel.
14. The method of treating ferrous metal preparatory to coating the same with a metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which includes immersing the ferrous metal in a molten salt bath composed substantially as follows:
37 to 57%. KCl 25 to 45%. NaCl 8 to NaaAlFs 0.5 to 12%, AlFa said molten salt bath being maintained at a temperature within the range of about 1250-1600 8' F. while the ferrous metal is immersed therein, said molten salt bath having aluminum in contact therewith.
15. A method as in claim 11 in which the fused salt bath is at a temperature of approximately 1300 F. to 1400 F.
16. A method as in claim 11 which includes the step of removing excess coating metal from the steel after removal of the steel from the coating metal bath and before the coating on the steel has solidified, thereby forming a relatively thin coating on the steel.
17. The method of coating ferrous metal with a coating metal of the class consisting of aluminum and aluminum base alloys which comprises passing ferrous metal into and out of said coating metal bath through a molten salt bath floating on said molten coating metal bath, said molten salt bath consisting essentially as follows:
37 to 57%, KC] 25 to NaCl 8 to 20%, NaaAlFe 0.5 to 12%, All:
said molten salt bath being maintained at a temperature of about-1250-1600 F. while the ferrous metal is passing therethrough.
HOWARD L. GRANGE. DEAN K. HANINK.
REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:
UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 597,111 Gooch Jan. 11, 1898 1,538,355 Rossi May 19, 1925 1,550,280 Post Aug. 18, 1925 1,941,750 Johansson Jan. 2, 1934 2,101,553 Mattsson Dec. 7. 1937 2,112,578 Rohrig Mar. 29, 1938 2,239,018 Rogerson Apr. 22, 1941 2,428,523 Marshall Oct. 7, 1947

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1. A METAL OF COATING FERROUS METAL WITH A COATING METAL OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF ALUMINUM AND ALUMINUM BASE ALLOYS WHICH COMPRISES IMMERSING THE FERROUS METAL IN A FUSED SALT BATH COMPOSED ABOUT AS FOLLOWS:
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