plate faces that come together to provide edges that are bias cut in relation to the path of travel of a cathode moving in relation to the anode application_number US 45792090 A description the anode of the present invention can find particular utility in electrodeposition operation in an electrolytic cell wherein a deposit e g a deposit of metal such as a zinc containing deposit is provided on a cathode exemplary of such operations is the electrogalvanizing of a substrate metal strip such as a steel strip the anode can be particularly utilized in an electrodeposition operation wherein the cathode is a moving cathode such as a moving sheet of steel as in an electrogalvanizing operation of coiled steel in strip form for convenience the anode may often be described herein in reference to use in an electrodeposition operation and for illustrative purposes such an operation may often be referred to as an electrogalvanizing operation however it is to be understood that the anode is contemplated for use in electrolytic cells utilizing other electrodeposition processes e g the deposition of metals such as cadmium nickel or tin plus metal alloys as exemplified by nickel zinc alloys as well as in operations other than electrodeposition such as anodizing electrophoresis and electropickling in reference to the drawings the same identifying number has generally been used for the same element in each of the figures referring to fig1 a a prior art segmented plate anode is shown generally at 1 the anode as shown is made up of five plate anode segments 2 for purposes of simplicity of illustration electrical supply means anode support means and the like are not shown in conjunction with a moving cathode such cathode would be in movement across the faces of the anode segments.