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• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
  • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
  • C25D1/00—Electroforming
  • C25D1/04—Wires; Strips; Foils
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
  • Y10S156/934—Apparatus having delaminating means adapted for delaminating a specified article
  • Y10S156/935—Delaminating means in preparation for post consumer recycling
  • Y10S156/937—Means for delaminating specified electronic component in preparation for recycling
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
  • Y10T156/19—Delaminating means
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/30—Foil or other thin sheet-metal making or treating
  • Y10T29/301—Method

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• the portion of the strip 2 in the plating bath is in the form of a loop, the strip passing over a roller 4 above the cell, then down between one pair of adjacent anodes 3 and up between the other pair of adjacent anodes, and then over another roller 4 above the cell.
• a weight in the form of a roller 5" is supported in the plating bath beneath the intermediate anode 3 on the loop of the electrode 2. Pins provided on the ends of the roller 5 engage in vertical slots.
• the plates 7 are preferably formed of hard rubber or other substance which will not be affected by the action .of the plating cell, and each of these plates is preferably provided with a central vertically extending opening 0 to facilitate the circulation of the electrolyte.
• the level of the electrolyte -or plating bath is represented by reference character 9.
• the strip 2 is formed of a suitable metal, preferably copper or nickel where the -Inetal to be plated thereon is nickel, and is adapted to be continuously driven in an endless path in the direction of theA arrow by suitable means, su"ch as a roller 10, operated by any suitable mot/ive means (not shown). From the driving roller 10 the path of movement vof the endl'e s strip 2 is as follows: Over the idler/.pnl eys 11 and 12, the pulley 13,
• the electrolytic cleaning cell A comprises three spaced anodes 15suitably supported in the electrolyte 16 from the top of the cell container, and a portion of the strip 2 as vthe cathode.
• The. portion of the strip 2 immersed in the bath of the cleaning cell A is in thelform of a loop, the'stri extending downwardly from the roller 13 etween two adjacent anodes 15 and then up between the two remaining anodes.
• a weight in ? the form of a roller 17 is supported n this loop in the cell A beneath the intermediate anode 15. Between the cell A and the Washing device C the strip 2 passes over a roller 18 suitably supported vabove the cell A.
• the rollers 13 and 18 are formed of metal, preferably nickel, While the roller 17 is pref-I erably formed of hard rubber or other material which will not be affected by the action of the cell A.
• Current is supplied to the c'ellA by means of condnctors 19 and' 20 .leading from a suitable source of current ;scribed 1n my ending application Serial No. 308,379, filed uly 3, 1919 and entitled Cleanyingof metallic surfaces, the anodes'l pref.
• the electrolyte 16 preferably consisting of a sulphate or potassium sulphate rendered slightly alkaline by the addition of a suiicient amount of caustic potash or caustic soda. Accordingly, as the strip 2 passes through the cell A, such strip will be effectively and thoroughly cleaned electrolytically. From the roller 18l the strip passes through lthe cleaning device C, which thoroughly removes all electrolyte of the cleaning cell A which may be adhering thereto. From the washing device C the strip 2 passes over a roller 21, then in the form of a loop through the bath 22 -in the container B and over the' roller' 23, the rollers 21 and 23 being suitably supported above the container B.
• a weight in the form of a roller 24 is supported on thel loop in the bath 22.
• Rollers 21, 23 and 24 are formed of suitable non-conducting material, preferably hard rubber.
• the bath 22 in the container preferably consists of a solution of selenious acid, and accordingly, in the passage of the strip ? through this bath, a very thin coating or film of selenide will be formed on the strip, as described in my pending application Serial No; 305,821, filed June 21, 1919 and entitled Electroplating.
• the strip 2 passes through the Washing ldevice C which thoroughly removes any of the solution of selenious' nearly saturated solution of'either sodium acid ,which may adhere -thereto, and then through the bath ofthe electropl ating cell as hereinbefore described.
• the anodes 3 of the plating cell are formed of nickel,- and the plating 'bath or electrolyte/of the electroplating cell is preferably of the character described in my pending application Serial No.
• 324,291 filed September 18, 1919 and entitled Production of nickel, and comprises a suitable nickelplating solution such as a nearly'sat- ? urated vsolution of nickel sulphate and a suitable amount of a salt of a fatty acid, such as acetate of nickel'or an alkaline acetate, preferably acetate of magnesia.
• a suitable nickelplating solution such as a nearly'sat- ? urated vsolution of nickel sulphate
• a salt of a fatty acid such as acetate of nickel'or an alkaline acetate, preferably acetate of magnesia.
• the nickel sheets or foils S, S1 produced by continuously stripf ping the plated nickel from the strip 2 will be Ve uniform inthickness and the length l of suc sheets or foils will be dependent only onthe time during which the 'apparatus is continuously maintained in operation.
• the method whih consists in contin .uously moving an elongated strip compristially as described.
• an Aelongated',strip comprisingan electrode' at in' which a' coating of amatoriof 'auf e ectroplatmgjce trolyticf cleaning bath, than ? -throu
• the natali, which"4 consists' ixi-pmoving bath which-,a coating o the ,plati l ce “electrode et e' Wint plating-cel-l, "the .'inetalgde electrodeof an' Aelect'r'c ? pla.t1iigce anfeiectrplytiegcaaning betatnsmhrtegh Valoath-inrthic'li a'coatingofga--materialfcon- .l
• an elongated member comprisin an electrode of an electro-plating cell t rough an electrolytic cleaning bath, thenv through a bath in which a coating of a material con? tainin selenium is applied thereto, and
• an electrode 'of an electrolytic cell comprising an electrode 'of an electrolytic cell and havinga. 'plurality of plating surfaces, with -a-coating of a material containing selenium, moving said electrodein a path Athrough'and then ,ont of the bath ol .the cell, and stripping from the plating surfaces of said electrode at a point inthe the metal depositedl thereon in the hath, substantially as described.
• The: method' ? ,hch consists in moving an-eln ated member, comprisin an elecigen electrofplatingcell, trough an electrolytic cleaning bath” then through a in selenium 'is' applied to -the electrode, an then ,throighandoutof the bath oitand stri ping. from said said said 'cell 'substantiall 'iasfdesei'ihed 10.
• g'rhe method ahi- consists in 'mov-f a metal contain-A x.
• an elongated member comprisin which consists in moving an elec-- trode of an electro-plating cell, t rough an electrolytic cleaning bath, then through a of a material containing selenium is applled thereto, and then throughand out of the bath of the electroplating cell, stripping from said --electrode at a oint beyond the bath ot the latino' cell t e metal deposited thereon 1n sai cell, and Washing -said electrode between the successive baths and also betweenthe plating cell and the point at which the metal deposited thereon is stripped therefrom,sub stantially as described.
• apparatus for producing etal sheets or foils ot an desired length, an electrolytic cell capa le ot plating such A metal and comprising an elongated Velecl sheets or trode partially immersed in the bath ot said' cell and havin la plurality ot plating surfaces, means o movin said ? electrode so that different portions t ereotf will successively leave said ? bath, and means tor strip# ping from the plating surfaces of said electrode at a point-Without said bath 'the metal deposited thereon in the bath, substantially as described.
• an electrolytic cell capable of plating such metal and com rising an electrode in the form of a long Aat strip partially immersed in the maaien oint beyond said bath bath of 'said ce1-1, means tormoving said strip" yelectrode so that din'erentportions thereof Twilll succsively leave said bath, means for retardine1 the plating'ol metal on the edges i metal deposited thereon in the bath, substantially as described.
• an. ? electrolytic cell capable of plating such metal and, comprising an electrode inthe form of a long strip only a portion of which is im mersedin the bath ot said cell, means for. moving said strip so that diderentportions forvv producing metalthereof snccessively leave said'bath, means.
• trolytic cell capable of plating 'such metall and comprising an electrode in the form ont a long strip only a portion otwhich is immersed in the bath of said cell, means for moving said strip so thatdiderent portions thereof successivelyA leave saidV bath, means for applying to said strip at a point in thepathof movement thereof in advance of the platin bath a coatin of material containing se enium, means or stripping from' both sidesof said strip electrode at a point beyond the bath the metal deposited thereon in the bath, and means'for Washing saidv strip between the platingbath and the point where said coatin is applied thereto', substantially as descri ed.
• an elec'- itrolytic cell capable of plating such metal and .comprising an electrode in the form of a long l'at strip partially immersed in the bath of said cell, means for moving said stripr electrode so that diderent .thereof ? will;- successively leave said bath,
• apparatus for i producing metal sheets orfoils ofany. desired length, a cleanin bath, a selenium bath, an electroplating cel -capableof patin such metaland comprising an elect de 1n the form of'a long' strip, 'said strip being partially immersed ,in-each lof .said'baths'and the bath ofsaid fcell, means for moving said strip in a given ip ath yand'se .that each portion of the same .amisucc'essively"through and outy of .aajthsc aning'batmtheseleniumbath and the 1. plating-bath, andmean's for stripping from yfsaid'fstri .electrode at a pointbeyond*y said the een,
• latinghath means for washing said strip fthe cell, and then. stripping from the platsupported on said loops, means for moving..-
• a cleaning bath a selenium bath, ? an electrolytic cell capable of plating such met-al and kcomprisingan electrode in the Aform of a long end'- less strip, saidv strip being partially im' mersed in each 'of said baths and the bath of said cell, means for continuously moving said strip in an endless path so that eachv ? portion of the same will pass .successively through and out of the cleaning bath, the
• electroplating lcell capable of plating such metal;v a lon flat endless strip partially immersed inte selenium bath and the bath of each of said cells, the strip comprising anelectrode of each of said cells, means for continuously moving said strip so that each portion of the same will pass successively through and then out ofthe bath of the cleaning cell, the selenium bath and the bath f the plating cell, and means for continuously stripping from both sides of said strip at a point beyond the plating cell the metal deposited thereon in the latter, substantially as described.
• each.ba .tl 1'bemg 1n the )form of afloop, and weights 1n the formk o' rollers respectively isa Astrips or foils
• an electro-plating cell comprising an electrode in the form of' an elongated member having a'pluralityT of' plating surfaces, means for moving said member so thatdifferent portions thereof will successively pass through and out of said bath, and .means for retarding theplatmg of metal on said'member between adjacent' plating surfaces thereof while the member is in said bath, substantially as described.
• an electro-plating cell comprising an electrode in the form of an elongated member having a plurality of plating surfaces and only aportion of which is 1mmersedin the bath of said cell, means for moving said member so that different portions thereof successively leave said bath, means for treating theplating surfaces of said member at a pointin the path of movement of the latter in advance ofthe plating bath so as to facilitate the stripping therefrom of metal plated thereon, and means for stripping from the plating surfaces of said member the metal deposited thereon in said bath, substantially as described.
• an electro-plating cell comprising an electrode in the form of an elongated member having a plurallty of platmg surfaces7 means for moving said member so thatidierent portions thereof will successively passthrough and out of said bath, ?
• an electro-platin cell comprising an electrode in the form o a long strip parftiallv immersed in the bath of said cell and adapted to be moved so that differentportions vthereof Will successively leave said bath, the portion ofthe strip immersed in said bath being in the form 'of a loop, and

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