Conductors for the current in the manufacture of staple or refining of aluminum by fused salt electrolytic reduction

摘要

698,293. Feeding articles. IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd., and ALDRED, L. Aug. 3, 1951, No. 18412/51. Class 117 [Also in Group XXX] A hopper for tablets 2 is formed of a guide 3 (inclined at an angle 10-45 degrees to the horizontal) and a groove 1, the tablets falling into the groove and running down into shoot 5, there being a brush 4 which rotates so as to fling superimposed tablets through a cut-away side 6 into a container 7. The top of the shoot 5 may be vibrated' by an electromagnet or a rotating brush may be used, to prevent jamming. A plurality of hoppers may be arranged side by side so as to feed respectively to a plurality of shoots, there being provided a common brush. Specification 350,238 is referred to.