Patent GB-1213804-A (GB)
Title: A process for the electrodeposition of organic coating materials
IPC: C25D13/22
Filed: 1968-05-27
Abstract: 1,213,804. Ornamenting. FORD MOTOR CO. Ltd. 27 May, 1968 [2 June, 1967], No. 25187/68. Heading B6G. [Also in Division C7] A decorative coating is formed on an electrically conductive workpiece by (a) electrocoating a design (e.g. strips or spots) of organic coating material from an aqueous dispersion thereof by directing a stream of the dispersion on to the workpiece from an electrode of opposite polarity to the workpiece, (b) thereafter applying to the workpiece surface a substantially transparent coating of an organic material which covers the design coating and (c) subjecting the workpiece to paint polymerization conditions. Fig. 1 illustrates the electrocoating of strips 23 on to a sheet metal panel 21 connected as anode, the coating being by means of streams of an aqueous dispersion of organic coating material from cathode conduits 15 of a cathode assembly 11. To form the strips, either the panel 21 or the cathode assembly is moved. Although the dispersion may spread over the surface, firmly adherent water-insoluble coating is formed only on strips where the current density is sufficiently great. Subsequently, any coating loosely adhering between strips is rinsed off. The coating is then cured. The uncoated areas may then be coated with a paint of a different colour, e.g. by a similar method or by immersion in an electrocoating bath where the voltage is such as to limit the coating to the uncoated areas and edges of the previously coated areas. The workpiece is then rinsed, the coating cured and a substantially transparent paint layer applied, e.g. by spray coating, curtain coating, roller coating or electrodeposition using a voltage sufficient to overcome the resistance of the previous coatings. The workpiece is again rinsed and this coating cured. The first coating may be in the form of spots instead of strips and two lots of spots of different colours may be applied. The organic coating materials used in the process may comprise polycarboxylic acid resins dispersed in aqueous baths by amine. They may include pigment and/or filler material. An example of a suitable coating composition comprises an extended coupled glyceride drying oil paint binder, namely a vinyl-toluenated, maleic-coupled linseed oil extended with a phenolic resin mixed with a pigment. The phenolic resin is a condensation product of paratertiary butyl phenol and formaldehyde. The dispersion is made up with the extended material, water, triethylamine, diisopropanol amine, diethylene triamine mineral spirits, a light hydrocarbon liquid, a wetting agent (the oleic ester of sarcosine), and a pigment grind. The pigment grind comprises vinyl-toluenated, maleic-coupled linseed oil, diisopropanolamine, antifoam agent (a ditertiary acetylenic glycol with methyl and isopropyl substituents on the tertiary carbon atoms), kaolin clay, titanium dioxide, lead chromate, red iron oxide carbon black and water. The resistivity of the paint dispersion may be 500 to 1000 ohm-cm. The electrocoating voltage applied may be 400 to 1000 volts. After electrocoating, the films may be cured by baking at 360‹ F. or, where a coating composition is used as disclosed in Specification 1,213,803, the films may be cured by radiation with an electron beam. Ornamental wall panels may be made by the process.