Mounting magazine for a galvanic fixture for electroplating semicylindrical articles

Apparatus for containing a stacked end to end column of semi-cylindrical articles during electroplating comprising a galvanic holding fixture adapted for mounting and providing electrical contact in a galvanic bath system and a magazine that is open along one side;

• said holding fixture comprising a fixture head, a fixture body connected at one end to said fixture head and adapted to be laid over the open side of said magazine, a platform at the other end of said body, and means for maintaining said magazine under longitudinal pressure between said head and said platform;
• and said magazine having a magazine body wall of electrically insulating material of generally half-cylindrical cross section formed with a multiplicity of openings located in staggered arrangement over the entire length and circumference of said magazine body wall for through flow of electrolyte, with opposite longitudinal side edges of said wall defining said open side of the magazine and being so disposed as to laterally support the column of semi-cylindrical articles by engagement with the outer convex surfaces of all of said articles, a bottom section supporting said column with said articles in said lateral engagement with said side edges and with the concave surfaces of said articles facing away from said longitudinal opening, and a head section having means providing electrical contact under longitudinal pressure to the other end of said column.