CA1297447C - Floating battery rack to be assembled from piece parts - Google Patents

Floating battery rack to be assembled from piece parts

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CA1297447C
CA1297447C CA000559520A CA559520A CA1297447C CA 1297447 C CA1297447 C CA 1297447C CA 000559520 A CA000559520 A CA 000559520A CA 559520 A CA559520 A CA 559520A CA 1297447 C CA1297447 C CA 1297447C
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Dieter J. Kunstmann
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47BTABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B47/00Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements
    • A47B47/02Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements made of metal only
    • A47B47/021Racks or shelf units
    • A47B47/027Racks or shelf units with frames only
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M50/00Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
    • H01M50/20Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
    • H01M50/262Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders with fastening means, e.g. locks
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47BTABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B47/00Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements
    • A47B47/02Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements made of metal only
    • A47B47/021Racks or shelf units
    • A47B47/028Racks or shelf units with crossbars
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/10Energy storage using batteries

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Abstract

Abstract The present invention relates to a floating battery rack comprising vertical side parts (1) and supporting cross arms (5) or beams (6) inserted thereinto and connecting the side parts to take up the floating batteries. The ends of each side part are provided with rectangular tubes (1.2) into which connecting tubes (8) extending over the entire height of the rack can be inserted. Between side parts located one above the other, separators (9) and further side parts (1) are stuck onto these connecting tubes, making it possible to build up as many tiers as desired .

Description

~;~974`~7 70~93-9 The present invention relates to a floating battery rack to be assembled from piece parts. This rack comprises vertical support plates having along their upper horizontal sides a horizontal supporting area with slot openings provided therein.
Beams or supporting cross arms are provided which can be inserted by means of plates provided on their ends into the slot openings on the support plates so as to bridge the distance between adja-cent support plates. The piece parts of the rack are preferably made of plastic-laminated sheet steel parts or steel profiles.
A variation of this rack is described in German utility model no. 86 07 513 published April 30, 1986. On the one hand, glass-fiber reinforced plastic parts are partly used and, on the other hand, the solution stated herein makes it possible to build up racks having several tiers. Small attachment tubes can be inserted into the side parts, said tubes then being prolonged with the aid of rectangular tubes as far as the side part located thereabove. This process can be repeated several times so as to build up a multi-tier rack. However, a disadvantage of this rack is that its mechanical stability does not meet all requi.rements.
~urthermore, in this rack the slot openings for the insertion plates of the supporting cross arms or beams are taken up in insertion elements which can in turn be stuck onto the side parts.
The invention is based on the problem of stating a rack of the type in question which is constructed of a small number of piece parts and can also be equipped with several tiers but still has high mechanical stability.

According to the invention, essentially only three piece parts are required, namely side parts having the insertion slots or slot openings and provided on each end with a rectangular tube with a vertical axis, connecting tubes to be pushed through the rectangular tubes of the side parts and extending over the entire height oE the rack, and separators in the form of rec-tangular tubes to be pushed over the connecting tubes and extend-ing between the rectangular tubes of any two side parts arranged one above the other.
iO Due to the connecting tubes extending over the entire height o;E the rack, the rack altogether has hlgh mechanical stability. This stability can be further improved by connectlng the connecting tubes with the rectangular tubes in the area of the latter, preferably by a screw connection. This screw connection has, for example, a nut riveted into the connecting tube, and a screw extending through the wall of the rectangular tubes of the side parts and engaging the riveted nut. If a multi-tier rack is desired, nuts are riveted or threads cut into the connecting tubes at the appropriate levels. Depending on the length of the connecting tubes, the number of riveted nuts or cut threads and using separators of varying lengths and the correspond~
ing number of side parts, one can build up racks having almost any number of tiers. The mechanical stability can be further in-creased by diagonal reinforcements. The length of the separators depends essentially on what types of batteries are to be supported by the rack.

. ., ,,,'i3 ~Z~7~ ~7 Stepped side parts can also be used to allow the floating batteries to be supported in several tiers one behind the other. The length of the separators used in this case must be suitably adapted to the stepping.
The side parts preferably have a substantially flat elongate side part bar ex~ending between the rectangular tubes.
Angle sections are welded to the rectangular tubes on both sides of these side part bars, resulting in insertion slots or slot openings extending along the entire depth of the side parts. The lower ends of the angle sections are on a slight angle to the side part bars, resulting in a downwardly tapering insertion slot whtch holds the insertion plates oE the supporting cross arms or beams absolutely securely. The angle sections may also be reinforced against bending by supports on the underside. In this way the slot openings remain freely accessible along their entire length, so that the desired number of supporting cross arms or beams can be inserted into the slot openings depending on the weight of the floating batteries to be carried. Due to the arrangement of two slot openings on both sides of the side part bars, the rack can be prolonged in the longitudinal direction in alignment.
Precisely fitting insulator plates can also be inserted from below into the rectangular tubes of the lowermost side parts, said plates taking up electrical insulators fixed to the insulator plates by snap closures.
According to a broad aspect of the invention there is provided a rack to be assembled from piece parts, preferably for - 2a -~,1 " ~

~9~ ~7 floating batteries, comprising vertical side parts provided with insertion slots for insertion of horizontal supporting cross arms or beams/ whereby at least two supporting cross arms or beams extending parallel at the same height form a bearing area for floating batteries, and each supporting cross arm or beam has at each end a rigidly attached, downwardly protruding plate to be inserted into the insertion slots of the side parts, wherein the rack comprises the following ~iece,parts: side parts having the insertion slots and provided at each end with a rectangular tube with a vertical axis; connecting tubes to be pushed through the rectangular tubes o~ the side parts and spanning the entire height of the rack; separators to be pushed over the connecting tubes and extending between the rectangular tubes of any two side parts disposed one above the other.
Advantageous embodiments of the invention can be found in the sub-claims. Embodiments of the invention shall be explained in more detail with reference to the drawing, in which Figure 1 shows a total perspective view of an inventive rack;

Figure 2 shows an exploded view of an inventive rack to illustrate the piece parts used therefor;
Figure 3 shows a perspective view of a side part for an inventive rack;
Figure 4 shows and exploded perspective view of the side part of Figure 3;
Figure 5 shows a perspective view of a different embodiment of a side part :Eor an inventive rack.

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The rack shown In l?lg. 1 comprlses slde parts 1, whlch are produced as shown In Flg. 4 and described In the following. A perpendicular side part bar 1.1 bent to one slde at the bottom to provlde stabllity and pre~erably made Or sheet metal of approprlate thlckness, is welded, to lncrease the stablllty, exac~ly Ylush at the top and bottom exac~ly In the mlddle between two rectangular tubes 1.2 of equal thickness. Angle sectlons 1.8 made of sheet metal are welded lnto both sldes of side part bar 1.1 at the top, llkewlse flush wlth rectangular tubes 1.2, taperlng downwardly somewhat toward slde part bar 1.1 and spaced accordlngly to take up beams 6 and/or cross arms 5. Dependlng on the length o~ these angle sectlons 1.3, a certaln number o~ supports 1.4 are welded there-below to provlde stablllty. All slde parts 1 are coated wlth acld- and alkali-proo~ plastlc, prererably in a coat thlckness correspondlng to the requlred electrical puncture strength.
In the case of larger, l.e. longer, slde parts 1, the lo~1ver edge of each slde part bar 1.1 ~s glven addltlonal bores for Insertlon of addl-tlonal îloor lnsulators 2, lf requlred, to reduce the rloor pressure chlefly ln the case of a multl-tler constructlon. The Insulators are Inserted lnto lnsulator plates 3 and flxe(l wlth snap closures 4. These unlts are lnserted from below Into rectangular tubes 1.2 o~t lower slde parts 1 located on the Iloor.
Levelllng sectlons 7 made of stainless steel are sllpped over the upper edges oY slde part bars 1.1 to prevent ln~urles and/or prevent the plastlc coat ~rom Ilowlng away due to pressure. Due to thelr sprlnglness they also ensure a tlght seat of horlzontal supportlng cross arrns 5 and beams 6 to be lnserted.
Slde parts 1 are connected by horlzon tal cross arms 5 and/or beams 6, whlch elther have a chalr-shaped hollow sectlon 5 wlth an upward llmlt-lng flange 5.1 or may be a slmple rectangular hollow sectlon 6. At both ends each cross arm 5 and/or beam 6 has a downwardly dlrected lnsertlon plate 6.2, 6.2 dlmensloned so as to fit exactly lnto the slot openlng ~ormed on slde part 1 by sllghtly tapering angle sectlon 1.3 and slde part bar 1.1. Supportlng cross arms 5 or beams 6 may be Inserted ln the longitudinal dlrectlon at any places, adapted to the wldth or depth of the partlcular battery cell.
The plece parts of the rack can be produced In ditferent shapes and slzes to allow racks OI dlf~erent shapes and sizes to be assembled therefrom.
A tlered construction ls reallzed by insertlng connectlng tubes 8, which extend over the entire height of the rack, into rectangular tubes 1.2 of lower slde parts 1. Nuts are riveted or threads cut lnto connect-ing tubes 8. Screl,vs 12 and washers 13 are used to screw up slde parts 1 and connectlng tubes 8. A separator 9 ls now put over each connectlng tube, followed by further slde parts 1 to form the next tler whlch are then screwed up agaln. In the same way three and more tlers can be put together stably. On the back of the rack, dlagonal rods 10 are addltion-ally lncluded for reln~orcement when slde parts 1 are screwed to con-nectlng tubes 8. All steel parts are protected from corrosion and ~ggresslve battery lye~acld ln such a way tnat they are preferably sandblasted and coated wlth partlcularly sultable plastlc by the whlrl slnterlng method to Improve adheslon.
The rack can he elongated laterally by extenslons as deslred.
Flg. 6 shows a stepped slde part 1 a to allow for constructlon of racks wlth tlers behlnd each oth'er. The Yront and back ends are agaln each provided wlth a rectangular tube 1 .2a wlth a stepped slde part bar 1.1 a extendlng therebetween. The slot openlngs are ~ormed by the stepped slde part bars and correspondlng angle sectlons 1.3a as descrlbed above.

Claims (8)

1. A rack to be assembled from piece parts, preferably for floating batteries, comprising vertical side parts provided with insertion slots for insertion of horizontal supporting cross arms or beams, whereby at least two supporting cross arms or beams extending parallel at the same height form a bearing area for floating batteries, and each supporting cross arm or beam has at each end a rigidly attached, downwardly protruding plate to be inserted into the insertion slots of the side parts, wherein the rack comprises the following piece parts:
side parts having the insertion slots and provided at each end with a rectangular tube with a vertical axis;
connecting tubes to be pushed through the rectangular tubes of the side parts and spanning the entire height of the rack;
separators to be pushed over the connecting tubes and extending between the rectangular tubes of any two side parts disposed one above the other.
2. A rack according to claim 1 wherein the connecting tubes are adapted to be connected with the rectangular tubes in particular by means of threads provided in the rectangular tubes, preferably riveted nuts, and screws extending through the wall of the rectangular tubes and engaging said threads or nuts.
3. A rack according to claim 1 wherein each side part has a substantially flat elongate side bar extending in the middle between the rectangular tubes, and in that an angle section is provided parallel to the side part bar on at least one side to form the insertion slot.
4. A rack according to claim 3 wherein the angle sec-tion is disposed so as to give rise to an insertion slot of inwardly tapering cross-section.
5. A rack according to claim 3 or 4 wherein an angle section is provided on both sides of each side part bar.
6. A rack according to claim 3 wherein the angle sections are reinforced against bending by at least one support connected, preferably welded, to the angle sections on the lower side thereof and to the particular side part bar.
7. A rack according to claim 1 wherein precisely fit-ting insulator plates taking up insulators fixed by snap closures are adapted to be inserted into the rectangular tubes from below.
8. A rack according to any one of the claims 1 to 4, 6 and 7 wherein diagonal reinforcements are provided between the rectangular tubes of adjacent side parts.
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