(19)
(11) EP 0 149 861 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
11.09.1985 Bulletin 1985/37

(43) Date of publication A2:
31.07.1985 Bulletin 1985/31

(21) Application number: 84201682

(22) Date of filing: 20.11.1984
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT NL SE

(30) Priority: 29.11.1983 NL 8304084

(71) Applicant: N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken
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(72) Inventors:
  • Legierse, Petrus Egidius Jacobus
     ()
  • Temple, James Somerville
     ()
  • Ponjee, Johannes Jacobus
     ()

   


(54) Method of providing a metal mirror


(57) A method of providing a metal mirror on a synthetic resin surface in which the surface of a synthetic resin which comprises a carboxylic acid amide group is pretreated with tannic acid and the surface of a synthetic resin which is a polyester, a polyolefine or a polyolefine containing halogen atom(s) or aromatic group(s) as substituents, is subjected to an oxidizing treatment and is then treated with tannic acid and the treated surface is provided with a metal mirror by means of an electroless metallization process.





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