Electroplating barrel

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AN ELECTROPLATING INTEGRAL BARREL MEMBER OF HEAT DEFORMABLE MATERIAL CONSISTING OF METHYL METHACRYLATE ADAPTED TO MAINTAIN ITS SHAPE THROUGH CYCLES INVOLVING THE APPLICATION OF HEAT, COMPRISING A PAIR OF HEXAGONAL END PLATES, EACH END PLATE HAVING A GROOVE ON ITS INNER SURFACE AND THE SAID GROOVES BEING LOCATED ADJACENT THE EDGES OF BUT SPACED FROM THE EDGES OF EACH END PLATE AND EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE EDGES OF THE END PLATE, THE INNER SIDE OF EACH END PLATE HAVING ITS FACE CUT AWAY ON ONE SIDE FROM THE PERIPHERY TO SAID GROOVE TO RECEIVE A COVER, SAID END PLATES BEING ARRANGED WITH THEIR GROOVES FACING EACH OTHER AND CONTAINING THE END EDGES OF AN INTEGRAL HEXAGONAL BARREL MEMBER OF SAID MATERIAL HAVING ONE OPEN SIDE LOCATED AT THE COVER SIDE OF SAID END PLATES, SAID BARREL MEMBER HAVING ITS END EDGES INTEGRALLY WELDED IN SAID GROOVES OF SAID END PLATES, THE SIDE WALLS O SAID BARREL BEING PROVIDED WITH A MULTIPLICITY OF THROUGH APERTURES FOR PASSING ELECTROPLATING FLUID, A COVER FOR THE OPEN SIDE OF SAID BARREL MEMBER ENGAGING THE SIDE EDGES OF SAID BARREL MEMBER, AND MEANS FOR SECURING THE COVER IN PLACE, EACH OF THE CORNERS OF SAID HEXAGONAL BARREL MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH A REINFORCING COMPLEMENTARY FILLING STRIP OF METHYL METHACRYLATE DIAMOND SHAPED IN CROSS SECTION INTEGRALLY WELDED ON THE INSIDE OF SAID CORNERS TO BOTH OF THE ADJACENT SHEET PORTIONS FORMING THE CORNERS THEREOF SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF SAID BARREL MEMBER AND TERMINATING AT THE INSIDE SURFACES OF SAID END PLATES, THE PROJECTING APEXES OF SAID DIAMOND SHAPED STRIPS PROJECTING INWARDLY OF THE CORNERS TO ACCENTUATE TUMBLING ACTION OF ARTICLES PLACED WITHIN THE BARREL FOR ELECTROPLATING.