BATTERY ELECTRODE PLATE PRODUCTION LINE AND METHOD

A battery electrode plate assembly and a production line and method of making, pasting, and applying separators to substrates of battery electrode plate assemblies. The production line includes, in an embodiment, a paster, a cutter, and a transfer mechanism. The paster is configured to apply a battery paste to a first side of an elongate web of a separator material. The cutter is downstream of the paster and is configured to sever the pasted web into a series of separate and individual separators with paste on their first side. And the transfer mechanism is configured to dispose an individual separator of the series on one of a series of substrates with the pasted first side of the separator facing the substrate on which it is disposed.