Rolled product with textured surface for improved lubrication, formability and brightness
US5250364A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 3, 1992 |
| Grant date | Oct 5, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/12993
- WIPO fieldMachine tools
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A metal sheet for making rigid container products, and a method of making the sheet. The sheet has a fissureless surface that retains minute amounts of lubricant in generally uniformly spaced apart elongated micron-sized depressions, the depressions providing a quasi-isotropic surface texture which, in turn, provides a substantially uniform distribution of friction at the interface of the surfaces of the sheet and a tool employed to form the container products. The depressions, in addition, provide the product surface with a high degree of specular reflection of light and thus a bright surface having a high level of distinctness of an image reflected from the surface.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.