Alltrista Corporation

Florida Department of Transportation

Douglas L Leng

Rodney G Powers

Ivan R Lasa

A jacketed anode assembly for use in a sacrificial anode cathodic protection system deployed to impede corrosion of steel or steel reinforcement in pilings or similar supporting columns. A non-conductive jacket formed of mating shell halves is lined along its interior surface with sheets of expanded metal such as expanded zinc. The metal sheets are of a composition higher on the galvanic series than the steel reinforcement such that the sheets serve as sacrificial anodes when coupled with the steel reinforcement. The jacket and zinc lining are installed as a unit on the piling with the jacket interior surface facing the periphery of the piling and in spaced apart relationship therewith. In this space, a filling material can be introduced to both secure the metal sheets in place between the jacket and piling as well as serve as an electrolyte between the steel reinforcement and the metal sheet. The present invention also provides a method for impeding corrosion of a piling by sacrificial anode cathodic protection.

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Greenville, TN, United States of America

Douglas L Leng