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US 4,063,978 AGranted
Battery separator assembly machine
AssigneeEltra Corporation
InventorsJohn P. Badger, Robert D. Simonton
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AssigneeEltra Corporation
InventorsJohn P. Badger, Robert D. Simonton
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An apparatus and method for assembling a sheet of storage battery separator material about a lead battery plate is disclosed. A battery plate is fed against the center of a flat sheet of battery separator material. The sheet is retained by guides above and below the line against which the battery plate is fed, so that as the plate is fed past the guides, the sheet is folded and enveloped about the somewhat narrower battery plate. As the enveloped plate continues to advance forward, it is engaged between pairs of opposed belt conveyors which take the battery and separator through a heating station. The adjacent inner edge surfaces of the folded separator are heat-sensitive, so that when the hot air and combustion gases at the heating station strike the adjacent inner edge surfaces, they become tacky. The continuously advancing plate and separator is then moved by the belt conveyor through a pressing device wherein a pair of opposed pressing rollers at each lateral edge of the separator presses and seals together the adjacent tacky edge surfaces of the separator material, resulting in a three-sided separator envelope about the battery plate.
A method of assembling battery plates and plate separators comprising the steps of moving a flexible generally planar separator sheet between opposed and spaced apart separator guides, retaining said separator sheet loosely between said guides in generally unrestrained condition and supported in a holding position, moving a battery plate in a direction substantially normal to said planar sheet toward such holding position to intersect said separator sheet at the midpoint thereof with the leading edge of said battery plate, continuing movement of said battery plate through said holding position to draw such unrestrained flexible sheet from between said separator guides thereby folding said separator sheet over said battery plate, and thereafter adhering adjacent surfaces of said folded sheet to one another, thereby forming a battery plate covered by an envelope formed by said folded separator sheet.
A battery separator assembly machine, comprising:
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