Patents by Inventor Franciso J. S. Menendez

Franciso J. S. Menendez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Installation for removing the zinc deposited by electrolysis on aluminium plates
    Patent number: 5269897
    Abstract: Installation for removing zinc deposited by electrolysis aluminum plates. The installation includes a storage zone for zinc cathode (1), a zinc scraping zone (2) and a storage zone (3) for zinc-free cathodes, the cathodes being displaced consecutively from one zone to another. The scraping zone (2) has a horizontally acting lateral piercer (22) that separates the upper edge of the sheets of deposited zinc from the cathodes, and a vertically acting scraping device (23) for removing all the zinc sheets.On one of their vertical sides, the cathodes have an upper zone of lesser thickness to which is fixed coatings (76) of dielectric material, whose surface is coplanar with that of the cathode plate (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Asturiana De Zinc, S.A.
    Inventors: Franciso J. S. Menendez, Vicente A. Fernandez, Francisco A. Tamargo, Fernando M. S. Menendez, Manuel P. Lopez, Jose M. M. Valdes