Method of oiling tinplate and product

Claim 1

IN A METHOD OF CONTINOUSLY APPLYING A THIN UNIFORM FILM OF OILY LIQUID TO EACH SURFACE OF ELECTRECOATED TINPLATED STRIP DELIVERED FROM AN ELECTROLYTIC TINPLATING ZONE, WHICH METHOD INCLUDES CONTINUOUSLY PASSING THE TINPLATED STRIP FROM THE TINPLATING LINE THROUGH A ZONE AT A SPEED CORRESPONDING TO THE SPEED OF THE STRIP IN THE LINE, FORMING AN ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL OF AN OPPOSITE POLARITY TO THE THE STRIP CAPABLE OF GIVING FINELY DIVIDED PARETICLES COMING WITHIN THE FIELD AN ELECTRICAL CHARGE OF ONE POLARITY, APPLYING AN ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL OF AN OPPOSITE POLARITY TO THE FIRST MENTIONED POLARITY TO THE STRIP AT LEAST WHILE THE STRIP IS IN THE ZONE, ATOMIZING A STREAM OF OILY LIQUID TO FORM FINELY DIVIDED PARTICLES OF OILY LIQUID IN A GASEOUS MEDIUM, PASSING THE GASEOUS DISPERSION OF OILY LIQUID INTO THE ELECTROSTATIC FIELD ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STRIP TO CHARGE THE PARTICLES OF OILY LIQUID WITH A CHARGE OF OPPOSITE POLARITY TO THAT OF THE STRIP, THE CHARGE OILY PARTICLES BEING ATTACTED TO EACH SURFACE OF THE OPPOSITELY CHARGED STRIP THEREBY COATING THE STRIP WITH A THIN UNIFORM FILM OF OILY LIQUID, THE FILM OF OILY LIQUID BEING DEPOSIT ON THE TINPLATE IN A QUANTITY EQUAL TO AT LEAST 0.05 GRAM BUT NO GREATER THAN 0.5 GRAM OF OILY LIQUID PER BASE BOX THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES SUPPLYING AS THE STREAM OF OILY LIQUID TO BE ATOMIZED A LIQUID STREAM CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF DI-2-ETHYL HEXYL SEBACATE.