Patent ID: 6942781

Claim:
A method for electroplating a strip of foam, said strip of foam having two opposite sides and an electrically conductive surface, comprising the steps of: (a) continuously applying the strip of foam onto a moving cathode immersed in an electroplating bath so that the strip travels through the bath in contact with the moving cathode to electroplate metal on the strip of foam, a first side of the strip of foam facing a working surface of the moving cathode, and (b) continuously removing the electroplated strip of foam from the moving cathode when metal has been plated to a desired thickness; wherein a metal foil is continuously formed by electrodeposition on the working surface of the moving cathode in such a way that the strip of foam is applied at step (a) onto the moving cathode over the metal foil; and wherein, after step (b), the metal foil is continuously removed from the moving cathode.