Patent ID: 6217736
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: C25D,H05K

Abstract:
Apparatus for electrolytically treating a board-shaped substrate item to be treated in a continuous system, through which the item to be treated is guidable in a plane of conveyance in a substantially horizontal direction of conveyance, the apparatusa. having counter-electrodes, which are situated substantially parallel to one another opposite the plane of conveyance, andb. having screens for shielding from high current density fields in the edge region of the substrate to be treated, said screens being disposed between the plane of conveyance and the counter-electrodes,c. the screens each being in the form of at least two first and second flat portions, which are disposed substantially parallel to each other, said second portion of the screens being disposed so as to lie opposite the plane of conveyance, and the said first portion being disposed so as to lie opposite the counter-electrodes, andd. the screens being mounted so as to be displaceable in a direction, which extends substantially parallel to the plane of conveyance and substantially perpendicularly relative to the direction of conveyance.