Primary battery having one of the electrodes wound up on a rotatable shaft

• US 3,357,864 A
• Filed: 12/11/1964
• Issued: 12/12/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard Huber
• Original Assignee: Richard Huber
• Inventors: Huber, Richard
• Application Number:
  US04/417,754
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• US Class Current: 429/113
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 12/04 composed of a half-cell of the fuel-cell type and of a half-cell of the primary-cell type
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/38 by mechanical means
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/42 Grouping of primary cells into batteries H01M6/40 takes precedence

Claims

1. PRIMARY BATTERY COMPRISING A CELL HAVING TWO DISSIMILAR ELECTRODES AND AN ELECTROLYTE, BEING CHARACTERIZED BY HAVING ONE OF ITS ELECTRODES WOUND UP ON A ROTATABLE SHAFT AND, IN SUCH WOUND UP CONDITION, BEING KEPT SEPARATE FROM AND OUT OF CONTACT WITH THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM OF THE BATTERY BEFORE ITS USE, SAID PRIMARY BATTERY BEING PROVIDED WITH MEANS TO UNWIND SAID ELECTRODE AND TO BRING IT IN CONTACT WITH THE ELECTROLYTE UPON PUTTING THE BATTERY INTO OPERATION, AND BEING FURTHER CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE MEANS FOR UNWINDING THE WOUND ELECTRODE COMPIRSES A ROTATABLE SHAFT AND A PLASTIC STRIP ATTACHED AT ITS ONE END TO THE FREE END OF THE WOUND ELECTRODE AND AT ITS OTHER END TO THE ROTATABLE SHAFT, SAID PLASTIC STRIP AND OTHER ELECTRODE BEING IN CONTACT WITH THE ELECTROLYTE, SAID ROTATABLE SHAFT BEING ADAPTED ON ROTATION THEREOF TO PUT THE BATTERY INTO OPERATION BY WINDING UP HE PLASTIC STRIP AND UNWINDING THE WOUND ELECTRODE, THEREIN CAUSING THE LATTER ELECRODE TO CONTACT THE ELECTROLYTE OF THE BATTERY.