Coiled electrode battery

Claim 1

A BATTERY COMPRISING A SEALED CASING, AN ALKALINE TRODES OF OPPOSITE POLARITY IMMERSED IN SAID ELECTROLYTE, SAID ELECTRODES BEING COMPOSED OF A COMPOSITION CONTAINING ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE MATERIAL, ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, AND A SYNTHETIC RESIN BINDER, SAID BINDER BEING PRESENT IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITY TO BIND SAID ACTIVE MATERIAL AND SAID CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL TOGETHER BUT COMPRISING LESS THAN 25% BY VOLUME OF SAID COMPOSITION AND A FLEXIBLE ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER EMBEDDED IN THE COMPOSITION; AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE TERMINAL MEMBER EXTENDING FROM EACH OF THE SAIDELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID ELECTRODES BEING ENCAPSULATED IN A FLEXIBLE SHEATH POROUS TO SAID ELECTROLYTE, SAID SHEATH BEING COMPOSED OF A SYNTHETIC RESIN WOVEN FIBER WRAPPING IMPREGNATED WITH A POROUS COATING OF A WATER-INSOLUBLE RESIN SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF: POLYVINYL CHLORIDE, POLYVINYL CHLORIDE-POLYACRYLONITRILE COMPOSITIONS, POLYVINYL BUTYRAL, CELLULOSE ACETATE, POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDE, AND POLYVINYL CHLORIDE-POLYVINYL ACETATE COMPOSITIONS, AND DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SAID RESIN ABOUT 0.5 TO 6 PARTS BY WEIGHT, PER PART BY WEIGHT OF SAID WATER-INSOLUBLE RESIN, OF A WATER-SWELLABLE POLYMER SEELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF: POLYVINYL ALCOHOL, ZEIN, GELATIN, STARCH, CARBOXY METHYL CELLULOSE, CARBOXY ETHYL CELLULOSE, AND COLLAGENS; SAID CASING COMPRISING A CLOSED TUBULAR MEMBER FORMED OF A RIGID PLASTIC NONPOROUS TO SAID ELECTROLYTE, SAID ELECTRODES BEING WOUND IN AN INTERTWINED HELICAL RELATIONSHIP, AND HAVING SAID TERMINALS EXTENDING THROUGH THE CASING; SAID WATER-INSOLUBLE RESIN, SAID WATER-SWELLABLE RESIN, SAID SYNTHETIC RESIN, AND SAID CASING BEING MUTUALLY NON-REACTIVE AND CHEMICALLY RESISTANT TO SAID ELECTROLYTE.