Device for the electroplating treatment of plate-shaped objects
AssigneeSchering Corporation
InventorsHorst Blasing, Thomas Kosikowski, Ludwig Mankut, Walter Meyer
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Abstract
A device for electroplating electric circuit boards includes an electroplating bath and a plurality of transporting organs which hold objects to be treated when they path the electroplating bath. The transporting organs are pairs of clamping yokes arranged on a common endless rotating belt and positionable from a clamping position in which they engage the object being treated and a release position in which they release said object.
Claims13
A device for electrolytic deposition of a metal onto plate-shaped objects, comprising an electroplating bath filled with electrolytic liquid and admitting said objects for a certain period of time, said bath having an electroplating chamber to which the objects are continually fed in a horizontal position and from which they are discharged after an electrolytic treatment;
- anodes positioned in said chamber;
- means for applying current to said objects which serve as cathodes;
- and means for transporting said objects, said transporting means including at least one endless rotating belt and a plurality of transporting organs positioned on said belt and driven thereby in an endless row one after another, said transporting organs firmly holding side edges of the plate-shaped objects and moving in a transport direction over a transport path which is defined at a beginning and at an end of said chamber;
- and means effecting an engagement of said plate-shaped objects by said transporting organs and a release of said objects from said transporting organs.
A device for electrolytic deposition of a metal onto circuit boards, comprising an electroplating bath filled with electrolytic liquid and admitting said objects for a certain period of time, said bath having an electroplating chamber to which the objects are continually fed in a horizontal position and from which they are discharged after an electrolytic treatment;
- anodes positioned in said chamber;
- means for applying current to said objects which serve as cathodes;
- and means for transporting said objects, said transporting means including at least one endless rotating belt and a plurality of transporting organs positioned on said belt and driven thereby in an endless row one after another, said transporting organs firmly holding side edges of the plate-shaped objects and moving in a transport direction over a transport path which is defined at a beginning and at an end of said chamber;
- and means effecting an engagement of said plate-shaped objects by said transporting organs and a release of said objects from said transporting organs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.