Electroplating apparatus and method
AssigneeCarolina Steel & Wire Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Alexander, John G. Keck
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Abstract
An electroplating process and apparatus employs a horizontally oriented zirconium plate supporting the entire weight of a plurality of zinc anode blocks in an electrolytic solution with a zirconium bus bar connected to the zirconium plate on one end but having an opposite end external of the electrolytic bath.
Claims6
A zinc plating process for plating zinc on a metallic substrate comprising the steps of positioning the substrate in an electrolytic bath containing an ionized zinc salt, positioning an anode support means formed substantially of zirconium in the electrolytic bath, positioning zinc anode means on the anode support means and connecting a source of direct current across the anode support and the substrate to effect a plating operation onto the substrate.
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