ARTICLES HAVING WEAR-RESISTANT COATINGS AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

A wear-resistant article of manufacture, such as a screen (10), is produced by the method of providing a screen having a front face, a rear face, and openings extending through the screen from the front face to the rear face, contacting at least a portion of the screen with a coating material (24) comprising ferromagnetic or paramagnetic hard particles and a braze material, subjecting at least a portion of the screen to a magnetic field during at least a portion of the contacting step, and transforming the coating material to a wear-resistant coating (18) comprising the hard particles distributed in the braze material.