An apparatus for the electrosis of a bath in fusion, to produce a meter more light than the bath in the cathode. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

An apparatus for the electrolysis of a molten bath to produce a metal lighter than the bath in the cathode, comprising a refractory wall structure defining a tub receiving the molten bath, a dividing wall of refractory material that rises from the bottom of the tank and that is supported by it and that divides the tank into main and collector chambers, said partition wall having open regions therein, spaced, below the upper part of the tank, for communication between the chambers said wall structure including a wall for the main chamber opposite the dividing wall, cover means closing the main chamber, means for evacuating gases from the main chamber above the molten bath, a plurality of cathodes in ordered arrangement, parallel, in the main chamber, each cathode being arranged transversely to the main chamber between the dividing wall and said opposite wall and each cathode having a substantial extension both vertically and transversely to said main chamber, means extending laterally through the wall structure of the main chamber other than the dividing wall and spaced below the top of the tub, for the support and electrical connection of said cathodes, anode means between said cathodes in mutually facing relation thereto, and means providing surfaces of inverted troughs on top of the cathodes, which extend through the main chamber and through the dividing wall, to carry molten metal released in the cathodes to said supplementary chamber, said cathodes being disposed below said trough surfaces and said wall structure of the tank having upper parts and said partition wall having an upper portion, said parts and portion above, and being arranged to maintain the ba fused in both chambers at a level completely above said trough surfaces, inverted from the cathodes, from the support means of the cathodes and from the open regions, said partition wall completely separating the chambers in said upper portion. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)