Patent ID: 9057131
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: C23C

Abstract:
1. Vacuum chamber of a vacuum coating installation for coating two-dimensional substrates, said vacuum chamber having a first connecting wall at one end, a second connecting wall at an opposite end, and a bottom base plate, a top cover, and two opposing outer side walls extending between the first and second connecting walls, and further comprising a separating device disposed inside the vacuum chamber including a separating element intermediate said first and second connecting walls and extending between the base plate and the top cover, the separating element having a double-walled region, fitted between two chamber segments, wherein the double-walled region of the separating element comprises first and second separating chamber walls each extending upwardly from the base plate transversely in relation to a transporting direction of the substrates and separated from each other in the transporting direction, each separating chamber wall having a separate respective aligned through-opening forming a passage for the substrates, the passage being disposed in a region of a transporting plane of the substrates, said separating device further including at least one closure, optionally closing or opening each respective through-opening in the first and second separating chamber walls from outside the double-walled region.