Patent ID: 6514391
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: C25D

Abstract:
An apparatus for electroplating a sheet-shaped article, said apparatus comprising:a plurality of feeding rollers adapted to advance the article along a path; and a spraying unit disposed on the path and including an upper casing and a lower casing that is disposed under said upper casing, said upper and lower casings being located on two sides of the path, each of said upper and lower casings including a casing body defining a chamber that is adapted to contain an electrolyte therein, an inlet unit, via which the electrolyte is fed into said chamber, a net plate attached removably to said casing body and disposed to confront with the article, said net plate having a plurality of meshes in fluid communication with said chamber, the electrolyte being sprayed from said chamber via said meshes in said net plate and onto a side surface of the article, an anode conducting net disposed fixedly within said chamber and superimposed on said net plate so as to cover said meshes in said net plate, and two conducting units respectively in electrical contact with two opposite side portions of said conducting net so as to supply electric current to said conducting net.