General Electric Company

Jesse L Morris

Raymond K Sugalski

Kenneth C LeDuc

An apparatus for assembling the component parts of a cover for an electrochemical cell into a cover assembly and for welding the assembly, the apparatus including a carousel having a plurality of equally spaced receptacles, an equal number of equally spaced stations around the carousel, a drive for intermittently turning the carousel to advance the receptacles to each of the stations and holding the receptacle in the station, a feeder at selected stations for feeding a part of the component parts to the carousel, inspection apparatus at stations intermediate the selected stations for inspecting the part assembly in the receptacle, a welder at a station following the selected and inspection stations for welding the assembled cover in the receptacle and an extractor at a station following the welding station for removing the assembled and welded cover from the receptacle.

Apparatus for assembling and welding vented cell covers

A feeder assembly for advancing strip material from a material source along a guide. The assembly comprises a clamp reciprocally movable on the guide and an air cylinder actuator for initially closing the clamp on the material and thereafter advancing the clamp with the material clamped therein along the guide and, after advancement, for opening said clamp and thereafter retracting the clamp while the material slides through the open clamp.

Feeder assembly for strip material

In the manufacture of electrochemical cells, the integrity of the mechanical joint between a coiled plate electrode assembly and a terminal conductor welded thereto is tested on the assembly line by applying to the terminal conductor a predetermined minimum tensile force tending to separate the conductor from the electrode assembly, while simultaneously restraining the coiled electrode assembly. Any movement of the conductor relative to the electrode assembly is sensed and, if movement exceeds a predetermined minimum value, the force on the conductor is automatically increased to a value sufficient to separate the poorly-connected conductor from the electrode assembly.

Method and apparatus for physically testing the integrity of the

An apparatus for die stamping the end of battery cell containers which includes a die holder, a hollow tube for engaging and guiding the container end with the die, a hammer for impacting the end of the guided and engaged container end with the die and an air cylinder for first engaging the hollow tube with the container and for engaging the container end with the die and, when the container end is so engaged, for actuating the hammer for impacting the container end.

Apparatus for die stamping battery container can ends

An assembly machine, preferably, for winding an electrolytic cell roll, for transporting a roll after winding from the winding station to a roll canning station and for inserting the cell roll into a can at the canning station. The transport is a conveyor with a plurality of nests thereon in which the cell roll is initially wound at the winding station and then carried on the conveyor to the canning station.

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Archer, FL, United States of America

Jesse L Morris