Contact plate for an electrode of an electro-metallurgical furnace and method for producing such a plate

A contact plate intended to be placed in contact with the wall of an electrode of an electro-metallurgical furnace, comprising at least one internal channel having at least one inlet and at least one outlet likely to be respectively linked to at least one external fluid intake duct and to at least one external duct for discharging this fluid,

• the contact plate further comprising a plurality of elongate holes which extend from top to bottom and have blind bottom ends,
• in which an elongate partition is installed in each elongate hole, the top end of the elongate partition being carried by a blocking element fitted into a top part of said elongate hole, the elongated partition having opposed elongate edges adjacent to opposing elongate zones of the elongate hole so as to define, in the hole, elongate spaces on either side of the elongate partition, the bottom end of said elongate partition defining a connecting passage formed in the vicinity of the blind bottom end of the elongated holes,
• and in which the elongate spaces of the elongated holes are successively linked in series by link holes formed in the plate at a distance from said connecting passages and in the vicinity of the blocking elements,
• wherein elongate spaces and the link holes form portions of said internal channel.