Abstract: An apparatus for detecting and measuring the area of defects in a sheet or rolled material comprises a defect detection section which rapidly scans the whole area of the material to locate the positions of defects and a defect size measuring section which is moved directly to each of the located positions to measure the area of the defect.

Abstract: In a process for producing vacuum deposition films which comprises providing a vacuum deposition film composed of an alloy or an intermetallic compound of two or more components having different vapor pressures at a specified temperature on a base, the improvement which comprises charging the component having the lower vapor pressure at said temperature to an evaporation source in a vacuum evaporation chamber in such an amount that the evaporation amount thereof per unit time does not substantially vary, and carrying out vacuum evaporation while continuously feeding a component having a higher vapor pressure at said temperature into said evaporation source in an amount corresponding to the evaporation amount thereof per unit time.

Abstract: A process for producing a sheet-like material having a vapor-deposited metallic layer thereon, which comprises vapor depositing a layer of a metal, a layer of different metals in contact with each other, a layer of a metal alloy, a layer of a metal and a metal compound in contact with each other or a layer of a metal compound as the metallic layer on a support of a polymeric material having a glass transition temperature of at least about 0.degree. C., a composite of said polymeric material and paper, woven or non-woven cloth, or paper using at least one member selected from the group consisting of metals, metal alloys and metal compounds as an evaporating material in the vapor depositing, and then forming a layer of an organic material on the metallic layer by vapor deposition using an evaporable organic material as an evaporating material in the vapor depositing.