Anode assembly for an electrolytic cell
AssigneeSolvay & Cie
InventorsStelio Ritti, Silvio Policardi
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Abstract
An anode assembly having upstanding anode plates either clamped between metallic beams or on metallic bars between the metallic beams. The beams and the bars are covered with fluid-tight caps made of a sheet material with downwardly bent marginal edge portions disposed on longitudinal grooves on the sides of the beams and bars. These grooves extend axially of the beams and bars and are open to the sides and to the top of the individual beams and bars. The grooves of two next successive beams define a dovetail groove narrower at the top adjacent the caps and are filled with a sealing material to define sealing joints so that the assembly has a fluid-tight upper surface of the base.
Claims16
An anode assembly for an electrolytic cell comprising, a plurality of upstanding parallel anode plates spaced from each other, support means for supporting the anode plates and for providing electrical current thereto comprising metallic beams between the anode plates, fluid-tight caps over the beams having bent marginal edge portions bent downwardly along the sides opposed to the anode plates, each beam having on opposite longitudinal sides thereof grooves open to the top of the beams and to the sides thereof, said bent marginal edge portions of each cap being bent into the longitudinal side grooves of the corresponding beam covered by the respective cap, a sealing material along the bent marginal edge portions on a side thereof toward the individual anode plates defining sealing joints.
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