Rapid activating battery

Claim 1

A COMPACT RAPID ACTIVATING, RESERVE ELECTROCHEMICAL CURRENT PRODUCING CELL, COMPRISING: A HOUSING; A RUPTURABLE, ELECTROLYTE-IMPERMEABLE BARRIER DIVIDING SAID HOUSING INTO FIRST AND SECOND COMPARTMENTS; A CATHODE MOUNTED IN A FIXED POSITION IN SAID FIRST COMPARTMENT; AN ANODE MOUNTED IN RELATIVELY FIXED AND OPERATING POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE CATHODE AND THE ELECTROLYTE BUT ISOLATED FROM A LIQUID ELECTROLYTE BY SAID ELECTROLYTE IMPERMEABLE RUPTURABLE BARRIER IN SAID SECOND COMPARTMENT; LIQUID ELECTROLYTE IN SAID FIRST COMPARTMENT, SAID ELECTROLYTE AND SAID CATHODE ARE IN THEIR OPERATION POSITIONS WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER WITH THE ELECTROLYTE IN A PREPRIMED WETTING CONTACT WITH SAID CATHODE; AND MEANS FOR DESTROYING THE RUPTURABLE BARRIER, WHEREBY A SUBSTANTIALLY INSTANTANEOUS CONTACT IS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN SAID ELECTROLYTE AND SAID ANODE, TO THEREBY FULLY ACTIVATE THE CELL, SAID CELL BEING SO CONSTRUCTED THAT SAID ELECTRODCES ARE MOUNTED IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME POSITION RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER PRIOR AND SUBSEQUENT TO BREAKING OF SAID RUPTURABLE BARRIER.