Textiles: cloth finishing – Beating – Beetling
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-15
2008-07-15
Kalafut, Stephen (Department: 1795)
Textiles: cloth finishing
Beating
Beetling
C029S002000, C429S234000, C429S241000, C429S242000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10996168
ABSTRACT:
A method of making a plurality of battery plates includes forming a strip including a plurality of battery grids. Each battery grid includes a grid network bordered by a frame element and includes a plurality of spaced apart grid wire elements. Each grid wire element has opposed ends joined to one of a plurality of nodes to define a plurality of open spaces in the grid network. The method also includes deforming at least a portion of a plurality of the grid wire elements such that the deformed grid wire elements have a first transverse cross-section at a point intermediate their opposed ends that differs from a second transverse cross-section taken at at least one of their opposed ends. The method also includes applying a lead alloy coating to the strip, applying battery paste to the strip, and cutting the strip to form a plurality of battery plates.
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Foley & Lardner LLP
Johnson Controls Technology Company
Kalafut Stephen
Parsons Thomas H.
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