Method and apparatus for electro-plating strip contacts

Abstract From the Canadian patent

This invention relates to improved method and apparatus for batch plating stamped electrical contacts attached to a web. In prior art arrangements for electroplating stamped contacts a web having the, contacts attached thereto is passed into a plating bath through complicated and expensive equipment which controls the passage of the contacts into, through and out of the bath. This arrangement is not teasable or economic for use with relatively small batches of contacts. The present invention provides a contact electroplating process and apparatus in which a web carrying the contacts is attached to a plastic carrier strip formed of modules in end to end relationship and then wound on a …