Apparatus for making continuous electrode sticks

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING ELECTRODE STICKS IN A CONTINUOUS MANNER FROM SPONGE OR FINELY DIVIDED DIFFICULTLY REDUCIBLE METALLIC MATERIAL INCLUDING TITANIUM, THE COMBINATION OF A PAIR OF COMPACTING MEMBERS MOUNTED FOR HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATION BETWEEN THE PARALLEL SMOOTH FLAT SURFACES OF A PAIR OF SIDE MEMBERS, SUCH COMPACTING MEMBERS HAVING OPPOSED INCLINED STEPPED FACES, THE SPACE BOUNDED BY SUCH INCLINED STEPPED FACES AND THE FLAT FACES OF SAID SIDE MEMBERS FORMING A COMPRESSION CHAMBER WHICH DIMINISHES IN CROSS SECTION FROM ITS TOP TO ITS BOTTOM IN A STEP BY STEP MANNER, MEANS FOR EFFECTING SIMULTANEOUS RECIPROCATION OF SAID COMPACTING MEMBERS HORIZONTALLY IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS TOWARD AND FROM THE VERTICAL CENTER LINE OF SUCH COMPRESSION CHAMBER, MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY RAISING AND LOWERING SAID PAIR OF COMPACTING MEMBERS IN SYNCHRONISM WITH SUCH HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATIONS, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING TO SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBER THE MATERIAL TO BE COMPACTED TO STICK FROM, AND MEANS BELOW SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBER FOR GRIPPING THE FORMED STICK AND MOVING THE SAME DOWNWARD IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE DOWNWARD MOVEMENTS OF SAID COMPACTING MEMBERS; THE UP AND DOWN MOVEMENTS OF THE COMPACTING MEMBERS BEING ADJUSTED WITH RELATION TO THEIR HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATIONS SO THAT AS SAID COMPACTING