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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4100674 | Method for making a side terminal weld An integral and homogeneous connection between a terminal and a battery lug is accomplished without the requirement of specially shaped projections on either of the surfaces of the terminal or lug. Insulation is disposed between the lug and terminal and a... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4096328 | Divalent silver oxide cell In order to avoid a distinct two step plateau in the discharge voltage of a divalent silver oxide cell, the positive depolarizing mixture pellet in the positive cap serving as the cathode terminal of the cell is covered with a silver or mono-silver oxide ... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4080727 | Battery plate envelope machine and method of making battery plate envelopes A method and machine for assembling sheets of battery plate separator material over the battery plates in envelope fashion and sealing the side edges together is disclosed. The machine feeds battery separator material from a storage roll into a folding st... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4080728 | Method of making flat battery A method of making thin flat laminar batteries in which subassemblies are made by sealing conductive intercell connectors to the inner peripheries of frames of nonconducting material and wet electrodes are applied on either side of the intercell connector... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4081005 | Flexible lead chloride cathode construction The present invention relates to flexible electrode material, preferably lead chloride, and to a method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture thereof. Such electrode material is useful in sea water batteries for sonobuoys.... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4066418 | Method of sealing an intercell connection in a multi-cell electric storage battery In a method for sealing a substantially straight intercell connector bar passing through an opening in the upper part of an intercell partition of an electric storage battery, a mould is used having a marginal portion fitting against the face of the parti... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4058889 | Method of making a lithium-bromine cell A solid electrolyte primary cell comprising a lithium anode, a bromine cathode and a lithium bromide electrolyte. A solid lithium element operatively contacts the cathode material, and one form of cathode material is a charge transfer complex of an organi... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4053978 | Method of preparing iron disulfide electrodes Iron disulfide electrodes are prepared by: slurrying the FeS2 in molten sulfur; spreading the slurry into FeS2 --S sheets; solidifying the FeS2 --S sheets; sandwiching the FeS2 --S sheets between porous current-... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4050482 | Battery plate pasting method and apparatus Method and apparatus are disclosed for the pasting of foraminous battery plate substrates with viscous, thixotropic pastes using an extrusion type bifurcated nozzle.... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4049027 | Active material for pressed nickel electrodes An improved active electrode material for use in pressed nickel electrodes is made by first chemically co-oxidizing nickel and cobalt salts in an aqueous alkaline medium to form the respective NiOx and CoOx compounds and thereafter c... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4048715 | Method of preparing porous, active material for use in electrodes of secondary electrochemical cells Particles of carbonaceous matrices containing embedded electrode active material are prepared for vibratory loading within a porous electrically conductive substrate. In preparing the particles, active materials such as metal chalcogenides, solid alloys o... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4047289 | Method for forming a slurry battery cell A method for forming a slurry cell electrode structure which serves as a component of a planar battery. The slurry electrode structure is formed in situ as a particulate dispersion of active material in aqueous electrolyte. The method utilizes a slurry pr... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4032697 | Methods of producing electrodes for alkaline batteries A process is described for making alkaline batteries in which particular attention is given to the pretreatment of nickel plaques prior to impregnation. This pretreatment involves production of a uniform thin oxide film on the nickel plaque surface under ... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4029856 | Sintered porous plaque battery plates and method of making same A sintered porous plaque battery plate comprises an elongated substrate and a sintered porous plaque on both major surfaces thereof. One longitudinal edge of the substrate has a region substantially free of porous plaque for welding a current collector th... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4027077 | Method of making thermal batteries and batteries, having V2 O5 electrode 1. The method of making a thermal battery, comprising continuously moving a nickel strip lengthwise, coating substantially half of one surface of the travelling strip with a mixture of V2 O5 and glaze-forming material and a liquid ca... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4021911 | Method for producing an iron electrode for an alkaline accumulator Disclosure is made of a method for producing a coated iron electrode of an alkaline accumulator. Into an active mass comprising black iron ore concentrate, iron oxide, synthetic fiber, ferrous sulphide and an aqueous solution of nickel sulphate there is i... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4006034 | Method of preparing an electrochemical cell in uncharged state A secondary electrochemical cell is assembled in an uncharged state for the preparation of a lithium alloy-transition metal sulfide cell. The negative electrode includes a material such as aluminum or silicon for alloying with lithium as the cell is charg... | 02/01/1977 |
| 3993504 | Method for the manufacture of a negative electrode containing a discharge reserve for gas-tight alkaline storage batteries Method for the manufacture of a negative cadmium electrode containing a discharge reserve for gas-tight alkaline storage batteries by incorporating an organic cadmium compound into the electrode structure and roasting to thermally dissociate the organic c... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992224 | Inhibition of liquid and vapor transmission through plastic-substrate seals Powder coating a substrate with a polyolefin or preferably a polyolefin-polycarbonamide blend before contacting the substrate with a plastic resin creating a plastic-substrate seal, inhibits liquid and vapor transmission through the seal. The application ... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3989540 | Method for preparing electrochemical elements in thin layers Electrochemical elements in thin layers comprising a stack of thin layers, successively a copper layer, a catholyte, a separator, a lithium layer, the catholyte and the separator being formed by a gel comprising more particularly formal or polyvinylic but... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3944434 | Hybrid electrode for metal/air cells A hybrid electrode for metal/air cells of the type having a hydrophilic layer of nickel on the electrolyte side for the precipitation of oxygen, hydrophobic layer of plastic on the gas side and a hydrophobic layer of carbon between these two layers which ... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3930883 | Zinc-containing electrode A zinc negative electrode for alkaline accumulators and method of making same. The zinc and/or zinc compounds are electrochemically deposited upon a current-collection grid in the presence of substances forming low-solubility zincates upon the discharge o... | 01/06/1976 |
