US Patent Issued to Wirtz Manufacturing on Dec. 9 for "Battery electrode continuous casting shoe, machine and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,475, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wirtz Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Port Huron, Mich.).

"Battery electrode continuous casting shoe, machine and method" was invented by Roel Mendoza (Palms, Mich.), Aleksandar Mrdenovic (Fort Gratiot, Mich.), Michael Romeo (St. Clair, Mich.) and John O. Wirtz (Fort Gratiot, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe for dispensing a molten metal such as lead into a mold cavity of a rotating drum to continuously cast a web of a plurality of serially connected grids or battery composite electrodes of a carbon fiber material with a cast metal conductor. The shoe may have at least one elongate orifice slo...