Abstract: A roller electrode, to be used for the support of sheet-metal strips in an electrorefining bath, has a hollow-cylindrical steel body spacedly surrounded by steel tubing for the circulation of a cooling fluid. A thin-walled shell of steel or nickel alloy, spacedly enveloping the tubing, defines with the roller body an annular space filled with a mass of lower-melting metal such as copper in which the tubing is embedded. The shell may extend partly around two stub shafts extending integral with the roller body at opposite ends therefrom. In making the electrode, the shell is heated above the melting point of the lower-melting metal which is then introduced in a molten state into the space containing the tubing where it is allowed to harden.

Abstract: A machine for shaping elongate strips, especially of metal, into a variety of profiles comprises a cascade of working stations in which the strips are subjected to progressive deformation between rollers, some or all of which may be driven to advance the strips along their transport path through the several stations. Each working station has an annular or star-shaped carrier, rotatable on a support about a horizontal axis, with a plurality of peripherally spaced roller mountings adapted to hold a pair of coacting rollers, the various roller pairs on each carrier being differently shaped to produce a selected profile upon being brought into an operating position -- e.g. horizontal on a level with the axis -- by rotation of the carrier. The operatively positioned roller pair can be coupled with a drive mechanism, individual to the respective station or common to all working stations, for positive rotation thereby.