Electrolytic cell and gasket
AssigneeImperial Chemical Industries PLC
InventorsThomas W. Boulton, Brian J. Darwent
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Abstract
A gasket of an electrically insulating material, suitable for use in an electrolytic cell, which gasket comprises a plurality of projections and/or recesses on and/or in a surface thereof which are adapted to cooperate with corresponding recesses and/or projections in and/or on a surface of an anode or of a cathode or of a gasket adjacent thereto, in which the projections and/or recesses are present as a plurality of rows thereof on and/or in a surface of the gasket. Also, an electrolytic cell, which may be of the filter press type, and which contains a gasket as described.
Claims15
A gasket of an electrically insulating material suitable for use in an electrolytic cell, which gasket comprises a frame-like part which defines a central opening and a plurality of projections and/or recesses on and/or in a surface thereof which are adapted to cooperate with corresponding recesses and/or projections in and/or on a surface of an anode or of a cathode or of a gasket adjacent thereto, and in which the projections and/or recesses are present as a plurality of rows thereof on and/or in a surface of the gasket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.