creator Hales, Crispin creator Zabinski, Thomas E. A coiled metal sheet is placed in a container, which may be thereafter evacuated slowly with the strip outgassing, and then the highly evacuated container is sealed with the coiled strip therein. The evacuated container may be stored until ready to be mated with a high vacuum process chamber. The container is brought to the vacuum processing chamber and is connected thereto; and the coiled strip is unwound from the container and passed through the vacuum chamber, where it is treated while under a high vacuum. The treated strip is then preferably wound in a highly evacuated take-up container. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-06T19:48:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 5151303.pdf: 131593 bytes, checksum: ace819b106aa9b3b899a805fbb9ff197 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-06T19:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5151303.pdf: 131593 bytes, checksum: ace819b106aa9b3b899a805fbb9ff197 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992-09-29 IIT Research Instutute 2009-05-08 1992-09-29 5,151,303 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2380 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access