A method of plating metal sheets.

摘要

The inventive method performs plating of the surface of a metal sheet without using a bath of molten plating metal. This method comprises successively melting a supplied solidus plating metal (2) in close proximity of the passing metal sheet (3) and adhering the molten plating metal as a plating film (9) to the surface of the metal sheet. The metal sheet (3) passes upwardly and the plating metal is supplied through an upwardly-directed nozzle (5) disposed near the passing sheet (3), and when or immediately before the plating metal is supplied from the nozzle (5), it is molten by a heat melting means. The molten plating metal forms a pool (8) at the corner defined between the surface of the passing sheet (3) and the tip of the nozzle (5), and the molten metal of the pool (8) forms a plating which adheres to the sheet surface and forms the plating film (9).