Abstract: In a process of manufacturing screen material a metal matrix is subjected to an electrolytic metal deposition by using an electrolytic bath containing a brightener, the liquid of the bath being forced to flow through apertures in the cathode toward the anode. The metal deposits grow substantially perpendicular to the lands of the matrix and so form a screen having apertures of approximately the same size as the apertures of the original matrix. The screen can be removed from the matrix by previously coating the latter with a separating agent such as beeswax.An installation for performing the process of the invention comprises a perforated cathode as matrix being fixed to cathode fixing means, a perforated anode being fixed to anode fixing means and a pump for providing a forced flow of liquid through the apertures of the cathode toward the anode.

Abstract: Metal screen comprising ribs and apertures and process of electrolytically forming a metal screen by forming in a first electrolytic bath a screen skeleton upon a matrix provided with a separating agent, such as beeswax, stripping the formed screen skeleton from the matrix and subjecting the screen skeleton to an electrolysis in a second electrolytic bath in order to deposit metal onto said skeleton. The second electrolytic bath contains an organic compound having at least one unsaturated bond not belonging to a ##STR1## group. Preferred organic compounds are a butyne diol or an ethylene cyanohydrin. The screen is preferably a cylindrical screen.