British Nuclear Fuels Plc

Chloride Silent Power, Ltd.

David R Lauder

Gordon A Clegg

Alan Bailey

First and second chambers, each having a rotor are interconnected by a passage. The first chamber has a contoured periphery to receive articles and the passage is shaped and dimensioned to permit travel therealong only of those articles which are orientated in the first chamber with their longitudinal axes either in the direction of travel or normal to the direction of travel. Articles in other orientations are carried round the first chamber by the rotor for representation at the passage. The rotor in the second chamber permits the passage of those articles which have their longitudinal axes in the direction of travel and topples the articles having their axes normal to the direction of travel into positions in which the axes are in the direction of travel.

Apparatus for orientating articles

A battery formed of sodium sulphur cells has each cell coated with an intumescent paint which is heated to produce a carbonaceous foam. This foam fills an outer housing around the cells or a separate containment around each cell and serves to confine material that might leak out of any damaged cell.

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Timperley, United Kingdom

David R Lauder