Sealed battery

Claim 1

A BATTERY INCLUDING AN OPEN-END CASING BODY HAVING METAL SIDE WALLS AND A METAL END WALL, A STACK OF BATTERY PLATES WITHIN SAID CAUSING BODY WHICH FIT THROUGH THE OPEN END THEREOF, AN ELECTROLYTE FOR PRODUCING A VOLTAGE OF OPPOSITE POLARITY ACROSS SAID PLATES, SAID PLATES EXTENDING PARALLEL TO SAID CAUSING BODY END WALL AND THE OUTERMOST PLATES OF THE ASSEMBLY BEING OF OPPOSITE POLARITY, THE PLATE NEAREST SAID END WALL CONTAINING SAID CASING BODY END WALL AND THE PLATE NEAREST THE OPEN END OF SAID CASING BODY BEING POSITIONED CONTIGUOUS TO THE OPEN END OF SAID CASING BODY, AND AN INTEGRAL COVER ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN OUTER METAL MEMBER CONNECTED THROUGH A LIQUID TIGHT, NONINSULATING JOINT TO THE OPEN END OF SAID CASING BODY, SAID OUTER METAL MEMBER HAVING AN OPENING IN THE CENTRAL PORTION THEREOF, AND AN INNER METAL TERMINAL MEMBER COMPRISING AN OUTER PORTION POSITIONED ADJACENT THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID OUTER MEMBER AND AN OUTWARDLY PROJECTING CENTRAL PORTION PASSING THROUGH, AND IN SPACED RELATION TO THE DEFINING EDGES OF, SAID OPENING, AND AN INSULATING LAYER IMPREVIOU TO THE ELECTROLYTE BONDING SAID INNER TERMINAL MEMBER TO THE INSIDE SURFACE OF SAID POUTER MEMBER OVER AN APPRECIABLE ARE THEREOF, AND SAID OUTER PORTION OF SAID INNER TERMINAL MEMBER PRESSING AGAINST THE BATTERY PLATE NEAREST THE OPEN END OF SAID CASING BODY TO SANDWICH THE PLATES BETWEEN THE CASING BODY END WALL AND THE INNER TERMINAL MEMBER OF SAID COVER ASSEMBLY.