Method and device for the thermal vacuum coating

A method for the thermal vacuum coating of a continuously transported substrate by vaporizing solid and / or liquid coating materials and vapor deposition of the vaporized coating material on the substrate, wherein the substrate moves in a heated vapor-depositing an evaporating apparatus, characterized in that the vapor-depositing channel (3) falls below a minimum transport speed or at a standstill of the substrate by the insertion of at least one variable position hollow body (7) in such a way (3) and an internal space is separated into an outer space, that the substrate is in the inner space.