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GB2108154A
GB2108154A GB08230680A GB8230680A GB2108154A GB 2108154 A GB2108154 A GB 2108154A GB 08230680 A GB08230680 A GB 08230680A GB 8230680 A GB8230680 A GB 8230680A GB 2108154 A GB2108154 A GB 2108154A
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47JKITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J31/00Apparatus for making beverages
    • A47J31/44Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
    • A47J31/4403Constructional details
    • A47J31/446Filter holding means; Attachment of filters to beverage-making apparatus
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D29/00Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor
    • B01D29/01Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor with flat filtering elements
    • B01D29/012Making filtering elements
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D29/00Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor
    • B01D29/01Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor with flat filtering elements
    • B01D29/03Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor with flat filtering elements self-supporting
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D39/00Filtering material for liquid or gaseous fluids
    • B01D39/10Filter screens essentially made of metal
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26BHAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B19/00Clippers or shavers operating with a plurality of cutting edges, e.g. hair clippers, dry shavers
    • B26B19/38Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers, or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips, guards
    • B26B19/384Dry-shaver foils; Manufacture thereof
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25DPROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D3/00Electroplating: Baths therefor
    • C25D3/02Electroplating: Baths therefor from solutions
    • C25D3/56Electroplating: Baths therefor from solutions of alloys
    • C25D3/60Electroplating: Baths therefor from solutions of alloys containing more than 50% by weight of tin
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25DPROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D5/00Electroplating characterised by the process; Pretreatment or after-treatment of workpieces
    • C25D5/10Electroplating with more than one layer of the same or of different metals
    • C25D5/12Electroplating with more than one layer of the same or of different metals at least one layer being of nickel or chromium
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D2201/00Details relating to filtering apparatus
    • B01D2201/18Filters characterised by the openings or pores
    • B01D2201/184Special form, dimension of the openings, pores of the filtering elements

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  • Apparatus For Making Beverages (AREA)
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Abstract

The invention relates to a filter made of a perforated metal foil coated with a thin layer of an intermetallic compound of tin and nickel.

Description

SPECIFICATION Perforated metal foil Some metals, when coming into contact with foods, beverages, body fluids or the like dissolve in them to a small but not negligible extent. This may be a health hazard, more particularly in the case of some heavy metals such as nickel, and so it is necessary to inhibit this phenomenon.
Accordingly, metal parts of domestic appliances have been given a coating of a metal, such as gold or platinum or rhodium, which does not enter into solution so readily and/or is not a health hazard. However, it is expensive to use metals of this kind to coat perforated metal foils.
Heavy metals of the same kind suffer from the same disadvantages when the perforated foils made of them are used as medical filters, for instance, for body fluids. Contact between the heavy metals and the skin may lead to allergies, for instance, in the case of nickel foils of dry razors. Razor foils of this kind therefore usually have a coating of platinum.
It is the object of the invention to provide a perforated metal foil of the kind outlined which is not a health hazard in contact with ordinary and luxury foods, beverages or the like, body fluids or the skin, yet has a good resistivity and is less expensive than coatings of a precious metal.
According to the invention, therefore, the foil is coated with a layer of an intermetallic compound of tin and nickel. It has been found that a coating of this kind when applied, for instance, to nickel foil coffee filters, provides a reduction of at least 100fold in the proportion of nickel which dissolves, so that the concentration of nickel in the coffee is far below the level which would be a health hazard.
To achieve the advantageous properties, the layer may be up to 25 ym thick, preferably between 0.5 and 6pm.
The layer may be formed either from a melt or alternatively from an electroplating bath by electrodeposition.
Also, the layer may have in addition a coating of a precious metal, which may be very thin, for instance in the range of between 0.05 and 0.5 ym, since the intermetallic layer of tin and nickel ensures that only an insignificant or negligible quantity of heavy metal dissolves.
A preferred use of the nickel foil according to the invention is for coffee filters, the intermetallic layer of tin and nickel having a thickness of between 1 and 3ym, and a gold coating being provided of between 0.05 and 0.5#m thickness.
The invention will be described in greater detail hereinafter with reference to diagrammatic drawings of an embodiment, in which Figure 1 is a plan view showing part of a filter foil for a coffee filter, and Figure 2 is a section on the line Il-Il of Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 shows part of a perforated metal foil 1 provided with perforations 2 in the form of slits having a width of between 50 and 100 ym and a length of approximately 3mm.
The foil comprises a base foil 3 of nickel completely coated by a layer 4 of a monophase intermetallic compound of tin and nickel. The nickel content of the layer is approximately 35% and the tin content 65%.
The layer may be applied to the base foil 3 in any required manner, for instance, by electodeposition from an electroplating bath. The thickness of the layer 4 is between 1 and 3 ,um. If the thickness of the layer is less than 0.5 lim, too much nickel would dissolve and/or the lifetime of the layer is limited. A thickness of the layer exceeding 6ym is unnecessary to achieve the advantageous effect and should therefore not be considered, since it would afford an unnecessarily long dwell time of the base foil in the bath.
An example of a bath composition for applying the tin/nickel layer by electroplating is as follows: grams/litre Tin chloride (SnCI2.2H2O) 50 Bivalent tin 25 Nickel chloride (NiC12.6H2O) 250 Nickel 60 Ammonium bifluoride (NH4F.HF) 40 (Ammonium hydrogen fluoride) Ammonium hydroxide solution (NH335% Sp.gr. 880) 35ml/l The bath is operated with a nickel anode, at a temperature of 70 C and a current density of approximately 2.5 A/dm2. The rate of deposition is about 1#m/minute. However, any other known baths can be used for the preparation of the layer.
It has been found that when the metal foil is used as a foil for a coffee filter, the proportion of nickel dissolving in the case of a nickel base foil, is reduced by the intermetallic layer 4 by a factor of from 100 to 135 as compared with an untreated nickel foil.
As shown by the dashed line of Fig. 2, a layer of a precious metal, for instance, a gold layer 5, may additionally be applied to the layer 4. A filter foil of this kind has the advantage that the gold layer may be relatively thin, since it need not act as a barrier layer for nickel but serves merely to ensure that the filter foil has no effect on flavour. Also, the gold layer has to some extent an additional anticorrosive effect. It is also simpler to keep a gold layer clean.
The invention is not limited to the use of nickel for the base foil and is applicable to other base metals, which otherwise would form a risk of dissolving to an excessive concentration in foods or the like or where the metal may cause difficulties if it contacts the skin or body fluids.
The base foil can be produced in various ways, for instance, by etching or stamping or by deposition from an electroplating bath.

Claims (16)

1. A perforated metal foil comprising a heavy metal base foil, as a filter for ordinary and luxury foods, beverages or body fluids and as a foil for dry razors, characterised in that the base foil is coated with a layer of an intermetallic compound of tin and nickel.
2. A foil according to claim 1, characterised in that the layer has a thickness of up to 25cm.
3. A foil according to claim 1, characterised in that the layer has a thickness of between 0.5 and 6ym.
4. A foil according to claim 1, characterised in that the layer is applied from a melt.
5. A foil according to claim 1, characterised in that the layer is deposited from an electroplating bath.
6. A foil according to claim 1, characterised in that the intermetallic layer is coated with a precious metal.
7. A foil according to claim 6, characterised in that the precious metal coating has a thickness of between 0.05 and 0.5cm.
8. A perforated metal foil substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
to achieve the gas flow separation.
8. A device according to claim 6 or 7 characterized by the fact that the aforesaid vestibules are provided with flaps between which the material to be treated is conveyed.
9. A device according to claim 6 or 7 characterized by the fact that the aforesaid vestibules are provided with rollers between which the material to be treated is conveyed.
10. A device according to claim 6 or 7 characterized by the fact that the aforesaid vestibules are provided with flaps and rollers between which the material to be treated is conveyed.
11. A device according to any one of claims 6 to 10 characterized by the fact that the means of exhausting and treating gases containing coating metal vapors include: an insulated discharge pipe (26); two or more parallel mounted liquid cooled exchangers (28-30) for metal vapor condensation; a protective gas exhaust pipe (32) provided with a pressure control valve (34); a burning system for these gases.
12. A device according to claim 11 characterized by the fact that each exchanger (28-30) is provided with a downstream shut-off valve (40-40') and an upstream shut-off valve (38-38') which allow the removal and the cleaning of the tubes on which the condensation occurs.
13. A device according to claim 11 characterized by the fact that the control valve (34) flowrate is so adjusted and regulated as to maintain a positive pressure above the bath surface.
14. A device according to any one of claims 11 to 13 characterized by the fact that the exhausted protective gases are burnt at the outlet by means of a torch (36).
15. A device according to any one of claims 6 to 14 characterized by the fact that each vestibule (20-22) is provided with means ensuring a quick opening.
16. A device according to any of claims 6 to 15 characterized by the fact that locking systems are provided on the vestibules in order to reduce the flowrates upon plant stoppage.
Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Burgess s Son (Abingdon) Ltd.-1 983.
Published at The Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings, London. WC2A 1AY, from which copies may be obtained.
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