Process for manufacturing primary and secondary cells

Claim 1

THAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CELLS COMPRISING PROVIDING A FIRST ELECTRODE BAND, PROVIDING A BAND OF SEPARATOR MATERIAL OF GREATER LENGTH AND MORE THAN TWICE AS WIDE AS SAID ELECTRODE BAND, FOLDING SAID SEPARATOR BAND ALONG A MEDIAN LINE TO PROVIDE TWO FACES OF SUBSTANTIALLY LIKE WIDTH BOTH OF GREATER WIDTH THAN SAID ELECTRODE BAND, POSITIONING SAID ELECTRODE BAND BETWEEN SAID FACES OF SAID SEPARATOR BAND WITH ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE LYING AGAINST SAID MEDIAN LINE AND HAVING ITS END EDGES OVERLAPPED BY THE END EDGES OF SAID SEPARATOR BAND, PROVIDING A SECOND ELECTRODE BAND, POSITIONING THE LATTER TO LIE SUBSTANTIALLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO ASSEMBLE FIRST ELECTRODE AND SEPARATOR BANDS, FOLDING THE OVERLAPPING END OF SAID SEPARATOR BAND LATERALLY UPON ITSELF, PLACING THE PERPENDICULARLY DISPOSED SECOND ELECTRODE BAND OVER THE ASSEMBLED FIRST ELECTRODE AND SEPARATOR BANDS PARALLEL WITH THIS FOLD AND SO THAT ITS LEADING EDGE LIES SUBSTANTIALLY IN REGISTRY WITH THE LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF SAID FIRST ELECTRODE BAND REMOTE FROM SAID MEDIAN LINE BUT ON AN OPPOSITE FACE OF THE SEPARATOR BAND, FOLDING SAID ASSEMBLED FIRST ELECTRODE AND SEPARATOR BANDS TRANSVERSELY OVER SAID SECOND ELECTRODE BAND, THEN FOLDING SAID SECOND ELECTRODE BAND TRANSVERSELY OVER THE MEDIAN FOLD LINE OF SAID SEPARATOR BAND ONTO A FACE OF THE LATTER, THEN REVERSELY FOLDING SAID SECOND SEPARATOR BAND TRANSVERSELY UPON ITSELF, THEN FOLDING THE ASSEMBLED FIRST ELECTRODE AND SEPARATOR BANDS TRANSVERSELY OVER THE OPPOSITE FACE OF SAID SECOND ELECTRODE BAND, THEREBY EFFECTING ACCORDION-LIKE FOLDING OF ALL SAID BANDS WITH THE ACCORDION-LIKE FOLDS OF THE ASSEMBLED FIRST ELECTRODE AND SEPARATOR BAND PERPENDICULAR TO THE ACCORDION-LIKE FOLDS OF THE SECOND ELECTRODE BAND AND REPEATING THE ACCORDION-LIKE FOLDING OF THE RESPECTIVE BANDS TO FORM AN ELECTRODE-SEPARATOR ASSEMBLY BLOCK.