IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SECONDARY BATTERIES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Scudamore Sellon, of Hatton Garden, in the County
of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
SECONDARY BATTERIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Scudamore Sellon at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd December 1881.
JOHN SCUDAMORE SELLON of Hatton Garden in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SECONDARY BATTERIES."
My Invention relates to the construction of the terminal plates supports
retainers or frames upon and in which the active material or agent is deposited
placed or fixed.
In carrying out my Invention I construct such plates supports retainers or frames
of a material or materials not readily subjected to the destructive influence of
oxidation or other destructive action such for. example as carbon either in a solid
form or compressed or mixed or amalgamated with other substances or as asbestos
wood papier maché, cellulose either alone or in combination with metals not easily
oxidized such for example as platinum. The plates supports retainers or frames
composed of one or more of these materials are constructed in the following or
other suitable form or forms.
For example they may be made of a cellular perforated corrugated grooved fluted
roughened indented tubular or woven shape or any combination of these forms or
of any other shape capable of retaining the active material or agent in a finely
divided pasted deposited compressed or other condition. I may make the plates
supports retainers or frames of a compound form say for example two outer
non-metallic plates constructed in the manner hereinbefore described with an
intervening plate film or coating of metal such for example as platinum such
combination forming a terminal or I may cover either mechanically or by means of
electric deposition or otherwise either the single or compound plates with a layer
or film of metallic matter such for example as platinum.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Scudamore Sellon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd June 1882.
JOHN SCUDAMORE SELLON of Hatton Garden in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SECONDARY BATTERIES."
.
My Invention relates to the construction of the terminals plates supports
retainers or frames upon and in which the active material or agent is deposited
placed or fixed.
In carrying out my Invention I construct such plates supports retainers or
frames of a material or materials not readily subjected to the destructive influence
of oxidation or other destructive action such for example as carbon either in a solid
form or compressed or mixed or amalgamated with other substances or as asbestos
wood papier-maché cellulose either alone or in combination with metals not easily
oxidized such for example as platinum. The plates supports retainers or frames
composed of one or more of these materials are constructed in the following or
other suitable form or forms.
For example they may be made of a cellular perforated corrugated grooved fluted
roughened indented tubular or woven shape or any combination of these forms or of
any other shape capable of retaining the active material or agent in a finely divided
pasty deposited compressed or other condition. I may make the plates supports
retainers or frames of a compound form say for example two outer non-metallic
plates constructed in the manner hereinbefore described with an intervening plato
film or coating of metal such for example as platinum such combination forming a
terminal or I may cover either mechanically or by means of electric deposition or
otherwise either the single or compound plates with a layer or film of metallic
matter such for example as platinum.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original
and therefore claim as the 'Invention secured to me by the herein before in part
recited Letters Patent is ——
The construction of terminal plates supports retainers or frames employed in
secondary batteries of a material or materials not readily subjected to the
destructive influence of oxidation in the manner and for the purposes herein
described.
In witness whereof I the said John Scudamore Sellon have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal this Twenty first day of June One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
JOHN S. SELLON. (L.S.)