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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1978
John J Strickland, Alachua, FL (US);
Thomas H Hoover, Gainesville, FL (US);
General Electric Company, Gainesville, FL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for applying and affixing sleeves of dielectric plastic material to galvanic cells. The apparatus includes a carrousel having a cell receiving station, a sleeving station and a discharge station with a tester for testing and rejecting cells between the receiving and sleeving stations. The apparatus further includes feeding means for feeding sleeve length units from a spool supply, gripping means for gripping each fed length, while such length is cut and for opening the cut length, pusher means for pushing the cut length from the gripper onto the cell and heater means for heating and shrinking the cut length on the cell into gripping contact with such cell.