Stainless steel trim member

• US 3,201,211 A
• Filed: 06/22/1962
• Issued: 08/17/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rush A. Lincoln, William G. Renshaw
• Original Assignee: Rush A. Lincoln, William G. Renshaw
• Inventors: Renshaw, William G., Lincoln, Rush A.
• Application Number:
  US04/204,333
• Time in Patent Office: 1,152 Days
• US Class Current: 428/659
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12
• CPC Class Codes: C23F 13/08 Electrodes specially adapted for inhibiting corrosion by cathodic protection; Manufacture thereof; Conducting electric current thereto
• CPC Class Codes: C25D 3/22 of zinc
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/926 Thickness of individual layer specified
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/927 Decorative informative
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/935 Electroplating
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12799 Next to Fe-base component [e.g., galvanized]

Claims

1. A STAINLESS STEEL TRIM MEMBER FOR USE WITH A PANEL STRUCTURE MADE OF METAL THAT IS LESS NOBLE IN THE ELECTROMOTIVE SERIES THAN THE STAINLESS STEEL, SAID STAINLESS STEEL MEMBER HAVING AN ATTACHMENT FACE AND AN EXPOSURE FACE, SAID ATTACHMENT FACE BEING DISPOSED TO ABUT SAID PANEL MEMBER WHEN IN ASSEMBLED RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH, AND A COATING OF ZINC ON SAID ATTACHMENT FACE, SAID COATING HAVING A THICKNESS BETWEEN THE RANGES OF .0000006" TO .00006" WHEREBY THE COATING ON THE TRIM MEMBER WHEN IN ASSEMBLED RELATIONSHIP WILL TEND TO RETARD AND PREVENT GALVANIC ACTION BETWEEN THE PANEL STRUCTURE AND THE TRIM MEMBER SO THAT DISCOLORING OXIDIZED PRODUCTS FORMED BY ANY GALVANIC ACTION ARE RETARDED.