Patent ID: 6887363

Claim:
A suspended rotating fixture configured to be immersed within a fluidic and electrically conducting fluid medium and to be suspended from a rotating electrically conductive shaft unit connected to a first side of a power supply and configured to support at least one electrically conductive element within said electrically conductive fluid medium connected to the second side of said power supply, said shaft unit comprising: an element support structure to support at least one of said elements, said element support structure including opposite aligned first and second end shaft members for a rotating support of said element support structure; first and second suspension units connected to said shafts of said element support structure to support said fixture from said rotating electrically conductive shaft unit with the element support structure immersed within said electrically conductive fluid medium, a first of said suspension units being a flexible suspension unit including a first rotating member conductively fixed to a first of said end shaft members and a second spaced rotating member aligned with said first rotating member and forming a part of said rotating electrically conductive shaft unit, and a flexible electrically conductive belt member coupled to said first and second rotating members to support said fixture from said rotating electrically conductive shaft unit.