METHOD OF ASSEMBLING MULTICELL ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERIES

摘要

A method of assembling a multicell lead acid battery includes forming a laminated structure from a plurality of flat plate arrays. Each array comprises positive and negative plates connected to at least one further plate in the same array by at least one link. The arrays are superposed so that each plate is in registry with a plate of opposite polarity in the adjacent array and separated from it by separator material. One or more cuts are made to sever selected links to form a plurality of stacks of plates of alternating polarity which constitute the individual cells in the finished battery with each plate, with the exception of every other plate in the two electrical end stacks of plates, electrically connected by one or more integral links to only a plate of opposite polarity in the same array and with every alternate plate in the two electrical end stacks of plates connected to no other plate. In the finished battery each plate in each cell lies in a common plane with one plate in every other cell.