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Stratified protecting coating for wearing pieces and hard metal cutting tools

US4237184A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 15, 1979
Grant dateDec 2, 1980
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Expiry dateJun 15, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/31678
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to a hard metal wearing piece, especially for tools, which is covered at least on the places subjected to wear with stratified protecting coating. This stratified protecting coating comprises at least five superimposed layers, at least two of them being of different compositions; furthermore, the internal layer in contact with the substrate is a layer of carbide, the external layer is a layer of boride or carbide, and the intermediary layers are of carbide, nitride, oxide, boride, and/or of mixed compounds thereof.

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