Electrode and water outlet assembly for hot water tanks

Claim 1

IN A HOT WATER HEATING APPARATUS, AN ANTI-CORROSION ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY CONSISTING OF A METAL OUTLET PIPE FITTING AND AN ELONGATED ANTI-CORROSION ELECTRODE ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO AND SUPPORTED BY THE FITTING: THE FITTING HAVING AN AXIAL PASSAGE LEADING FROM A FIRST OR OUTER END OF THE FITTING INWARDLY AND HAVNG A LATERAL OPENING CONNNECTING WITH THE PASSAGE AND LEADING TO THE SURFACE OF THE FITTING ADJACENT ITS SECOND OR INNER END: CONNECTING MEANS AT THE OUTER END OF THE FITTING FOR CONNECTION OF THE FITTING WITH PIPING; EXTERNAL THREADS AROUND THE FITING INWARDLY FROM SAID CONNECTING MEANS, FOR CONNECTION OF THE ASSEMBLY IN A THREADED OPENING; ATTACHING MEANS BETWEEN THE FITTING AND THE ELECTRODE, SAID ATTACHING MEANS BEING INWARDLY OF THE LATERAL OPENING IN THE FITTING; THE ASSEMBLY HAVING MEANS CLOSING THE AXIAL PASSAGE BELOW THE LATERAL OPENING IN THE TUBULAR MEMBER; AND THE PARTS OF THE ASSEMBLY INWARDLY OF THE EXTERNAL THREADS ON THE FITTING BEING NO LARGER IN OVERALL DIAMETER THAN THE SAID THREADED PORTION OF THE FITTING WHEREBY THE ASSEMBLY AS A UNIT MAY BE INSERTED THROUGH AN OPENING IN A WALL, THREADEDLY ATTACHED AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO THE WALL.