Intercept ® Coin Protection

Description

Intercept Shield Coin Protection

Developed by Bell Labs to solve their various corrosion problems. Intercept is the state of the art in Corrosion protection, providing unequalled and unsurpassed protection.

Until now, it has been virtually impossible to keep your valued coins out of harm’s way.Corrosive gases in the environment can be found anywhere, and everywhere. They are produced not only by some of the most natural things on earth: such as vegetation, ocean surfaces and wetlands. Even worse, the most common and most potent of these gases - Sulphur and chlorine are two of the major causes of metal corrosion.

Before Intercept technology was developed, the three available methods of corrosion protection were volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs), activated charcoal and protective oils. However, they all had inherent flaws that could, under certain conditions, lead to marring or corrosion of the metal surfaces they were meant to protect.

The patented Intercept Technology uses a totally unique approach to protecting metals from corrosion. Unlike volatile components or oils, it will not coat the metal’s surface. The way Intercept works is by acting as a sacrificial corrosion agent. In other words, when corrosive gases come in contact with the Intercept material, they are instantly neutralized. The Intercept reacts with the gases in a permanent and irreversible chemical reaction, thus actually cleaning the environment around the coin. So ingenious is the technology that it is statistically improbable for any corrosive gas, including ammonia and ozone, to migrate all the way through the Intercept material without being neutralized by an active corrosion reaction site.

The Proof:

Lucent Technologies tested three different coin albums the results of which are shown below. This remarkable technology provides 5 plus years of corrosion protection for each thousandth of an inch thickness, under normally encountered corrosive conditions.

Subject:

Performance analysis of the corrosion protection of intercept technology licensed metal substrate storage product. Intercept Technology is a Lucent Technologies patented and licensed polymer process. The Technology has been licensed, manufactured, distributed, and sold by licensees since 1991. In order to ensure the highest quality production, and manufacture of Intercept products are maintained, samples of production materials are regularly retained and tested. These checks, coupled with periodic inspections and updated improvements in formulations create a technically advanced product. Periodically, final products are laboratory tested for static and/or corrosion protection performance. Coin storage systems are designed to protect copper, silver and their alloys from tarnishing. These metals are commonplace in the electronic equipment
Lucent Technologies manufactures. Therefore, it is beneficial for Lucent Technologies Bell Labs to test their performance of such systems so as to expand our information base in the matter of the atmospheric corrosion protection of electronic materials. This report describes such a test for corrosion protection and its results.
Storage systems for coinage have been tested for corrosion protection from atmospheric trace sulphur gases. Intercept Technology significantly outperformed non-Intercept Technology systems.