Galvanizing magazine for coating work pieces

Abstract

A galvanizing magazine has electrically conducting electrodes for holding a multitude of small parts in positions that assure uniform coating conditions for all parts held in any of electrodes held in the magazine. A hollow cylindrical electrode with slots therein forms the magazine, or a plurality of rod electrodes held in a current distributing disk at one end and in a mounting disk at the other end form the magazine. The electrodes have receptacles so that each receptacle holds one small part in such a way that the longitudinal axis of the small part and the central axis of the receptacle extend at a right angle and radially to a rotational axis of the magazine. The receptacles are uniformly spaced from each other in a row along a respective electrode and also uniformly spaced with angular spacings in the circumferential direction around the longitudinal rotational axis of the magazine. Thus, the part surfaces to be plated face radially outwardly while the part itself is held in a fixed position with an electrical contact between the part and the electrode. This construction assures a consistently reproducible and controllable coating quality, even for large numbers of small parts. Such a magazine is easily loaded and unloaded in an automatic manner.