Method for coating corrugating rolls using high velocity oxygen fueled thermal spray

摘要

A method for forming a hardened coating on a workpiece, such as a corrugating roll, having an undulated surface. A high velocity oxygen fueled gun is aligned with the undulated surface and a coating material is sprayed onto the surface from the gun to form a hardened coating having substantially uniform surface characteristics. The coating material is a tungsten carbide-cobalt material, or other hard carbide or oxide materials, which is sprayed onto the surface in a direction which is parallel to and offset from a plane passing through the longitudinal center of the roll. During the spraying operation, the gun is traversed along the length of the roll while the roll is rotated.