Patent · US Expired

Drop collector for an apparatus for conveying electrodes

US4481963A · kind A · utility

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13Claims

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Assignee

Metallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt · BE

Inventors

Constant T. Verhoeven · Poederlee, BE
Jean F. Viellefont · Herenthout, BE
Robert Dierckxsens · Olen, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 8, 1983
Grant date	Nov 13, 1984
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 8, 2003

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB65G49/0459
WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In an apparatus for conveying dripping electrodes, a drop collector having a plurality of parallel gutters is coupled to the conveying apparatus by a frame. The gutters are coupled together in one or more series of parallel gutters and are displaced by a motor driven endless chain system between a work position underneath the suspended dripping electrodes and a rest position which permits the electrodes to be inserted into or extracted from electrolysis cells by the conveying apparatus. The gutters include outlet orifices which communicate electrolyte from the dripping electrodes to a reservoir formed in the frame which couples the drop collector to the conveying apparatus.

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