US1080852A - Storage battery. - Google Patents

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BEST AVAILABLE COPY A. H. SNYDERKL J. STARKENSTEIT' STORAGE BATTERY.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28, 1912.

1,080,852. Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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A. H. SNYDER & J. STARKENSTEIN. STORAGE BATTERY.

APPLICATION PILED' AUG. 28, 1912.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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ALMOND H. SNYDER, OF LANCASTER, AND JOSEPH STARKENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK,

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, ALMOND H. SNYDER, 1 a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lancaster, county of Erie, and State of New York, and Josnrn S'mmmxsram, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and use- IO ful Improvement in Storage Batteries, of

l Which the following is a specification.

1 Our invention relates to storage batteries Land more particularly to apparatus forlifting a storage battery as a unit or for lifting the battery plates out of the jar. One of theobjects of the invention is to provide a simple and durable apparatus that may be readily applied to battery jars for lifting them.

29 Another object of the invention is to pro- 'vide lifting apparatus which may be readily applied to the battery jar to lift it, or which may readily be attached to the terminals of 'jthe plates orto the terminals of a certain number of the plates, so that the plates may be lifted together out of the jar. In the preferred form of our invention, we provide means whereby the plates may be lifted without disturbing their relative operative positions. k

. Our invention will be more readily understood and further objects of the invention will more fully appear from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which i Figure 1 shows a side view of a storage battery equipped with a lifting device em- 1 bodying one form of our invcnlioiTfdFlifting the entire ccrtainparls beingbrohenaway and others shown in section; Fig. 2 shows a side view of said'jar, with certain Q-parts broken away'and others in section,

having the lifting device secured to the terminals of the battery for lifting the plates Specification of Letters Patent.

font of the jar; Fig. 3 shows a. top viewof f a jar having two positive and two negative terminals, with the biting device secured to tain parts of the cover being broken away; Fig. 4 shows a pers 'iective view of a with the lifting device attached thereto; 1 Fig. 5 shows a detail: and Fig. 6 shows a.

modification of the liftin device.

Referring to the drze-.-:ings, i a battery a pair of terminals of opposite polarity, cer

BATTERY COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF STORAGE BATTERY.

Patent ed Dec. 9, 1913.

jar, preferably made of hard rubber or similar suitable insulating material, having a series of positive plates 3 and ascries of negative plates l suitably supported and spaced in the jar, all or a suitable number of the positive plates 3 being burned to the base of a threaded terminal The negative plates, or any desired number of them, are similarly connected to the threaded terminal. 5. Each plate at its end away from its terminal, is provided with a hooked portion or overhanging flange (5 extending above and overhanging the top edges of the plates of oppositepolarity, the construction being such that a groove or passage 7 is formed between the lower edge of the flanges l3 and the edge of the plates of opposite poralily, the groove extending across the plates. These grooves, one at each end of the plates, are adapted to receive a locking piece or key 8, preferably made of fiber or other strong insulating material, for the purpose of holding the otherwise unsupported ends of the plates from sagging when being lifted,

and thus avoiding any shearing strains on the terminals or the connections of the ter-' minals to the plates. The locking pieces also enable the plates to be lifted out of the jar withoutdisarranging their relative positions, so that they may be lifted and replaced without any readjustment.

The particular form of battery shown is provided with a suitable cover 9 which is sealed on the jar by means of a suitable cementing compound 10, but it will be understood that the invention is equally applicable to nnci'ivered batteries.

in order not to crush the edges of the jar in lifting the jar :{S a \vlmle, a rigid piece ll, preferably in the form of a bar, is placed across the top f the jar with its ends projecting over the side of the jar; The bar, in the preferred form of our invention, is made of wood and is provided with openings 12 through which the threaded terminals 5, 5 project. They extremities of the bar are provided with suitable n'ioans such as metal caps 13 with sockets 13' for securing the ends of a sling 14. Since the jars are usually made of glass or hard rubber, which cannot be safely ubiecierl to rough handling or uneven s1- we undue the sling in th form of a flat and, preferably of sheet metal, the hand being provided at its ends with reinfm eed p r our. if) by means of which the band is secured to the extremities of the bar. In the present form of the invention, we have shown the ends of the slin or flexible sheet metal band curved bac upon itself to make the enlar ed or reinforced portion 15 cylindrical in orm so that it may be slipped laterally into the socket .13. The bar 11 may be provided with any suitable hook 16 or other device by means of Which a chain or rope, may be attached to the bar. If desired, t e bar may be made of metal, as shown in Fig. 6, and provided with insulating bushings 18 fitting the terminal openings, and with hooks 19 which are adapted to engage in eyelets 20 formed in the metal band.

If it is desired the terminal nuts the bar is slipped over the terminals which project through the holes 12, in the bar until the bar rests upon the upper edge of the jar. The sling is then slipped under the. jar and the reinforced end portions are slipped into the sockets 13 or other securing means, whereupon a suitable rope or chain is made fast to the hook l6 and the jar is ready to be lifted. After lifting the jar out of position,- or before lifting it out of position, if it is desired to lift the plates out of the jar or any number of them connected to the terminals 5, 5, the sling is dispensed with and the terminal nuts 17, 17 screwed down over the terminals, so as to hold the bar from being lifted off. The locking pieces or keys 8 are then placed in the grooves 7 and the plates are now ready to be lifted by connectin a suitable rope or chain into the hook 16. plates 3 which are connected to the terminal 5 will support the adjacent ends of the negative plates 4 which are hooked over the key or lockin piece 8, and likewise the terminal ends 0 the negative plates 4 will support the adjacent ends of the positive plates 3 which are hooked over the locking piece 8 at that end; so that as the bar is lifted the plates will be prevented from saggin own at their otherwise unsupported en s, and will be properly spaced and in their relative operative positions so that they may be readily replaced in the jar without rearrangement.

While we have shown and described thebest form of our invention now known to us, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes may be made in the SflIIlB -fifld that certain features of the invention may be utilized without other of the features, without ideparting from the scope or spirit of our invention, and we do not Wish tobe understood as limiting ourselves other than as indicated in the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention,

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to lift the jar as awhole, 17, 17 are removed and a .nals from the plates,

e ends of the positive 1&1 and which the terminals project, means for rea a what we claim as new and desire to secure 1. The combination with a tery jar, battery lates and terminals extending up there m, of a rigid bar extending across the top of the jar and provided with openin for receiving the terminals from the p ates, means for detachsecuring the bar to the terminals, and

storage bata l a dlstachable sling extendin from the ends of the bar around beneath t e jar, whereby the plates may be lifted out of the jar or whole {ar lifted, depending upon whether the s ing is secured to the cross bar.

2. The combination with a storage battery jar, batter ,plates and terminals extending up there rom,of a rigid bar extend' across the top of the jar and provided w i i openings for reoeivi the terminals from the plates, a flexible and extendin from the ends of the bar around beneath t and means for detachably securing the ends of the band to the extremities of the bar.

3. The combination with a storage battery jar, battery plates and terminals ex tending up therefrom, of a rigid bar extending across the top of the jar and provided with openings for receiving the termia flexible metallic band extending from the ends of the bar around beneath the jar, the band being provided with enlarged ortions, and means at the extremities of t e bar for detachably securing the enlarged ends of the band thereto.

4. The combination of a storage: battery jar, a series of negative and positive plates respectively connected to common terminals,

a rigid bar extending across the top of the provided with openings through movably securing the bar on the terminals,

and adetachable sling extending from the,

ends of the bar around beneath the jar.

5. The combination of a storage battery jar, a series of negative and positive plates respectively connected to common terminals, a rigid bar extending acrossthe top of the jar and provided with openings through which the terminals project, means for removabl securing the bar on the terminals, a detac able slin extendin from the ends of the bar aroun beneath t e jar, the ends ofThe sling bein reinforced, and means at the extremities o the bar for detachably securing the reinforced ends of the sling thereto.

6. The combination of a storage battery jar, a seriesof negative and positive plates respectively connected to common terminals, the terminals having threaded extensio a rigid bar extending across the top of the jar and provided with openings through which the threaded terminals project, nuts threaded on the terminals for removably e jar,

which they are connected at one end, a com- .mon terminal for the said negative plates .to which they are connected at their ends opposite the positive terminal, and means for preventing the ends of the negative and positive plates opposite their terminals from sagging when being lifted from the jar by their termlnals, said. means comprising transverse grooves in the respective positive and negative plates with a key for each groove engaging the respective negative and positive, plates to lock each set of plates from sagging when being lifted from the jar by their terminals.

8. The combination of a storage battery jar, a plurality of positive plates and a plurality of negative plates therein, a common terminal for the said. positive plates to which they are connected atone end, acommon terminal for the said negative plates to which they are connected at their ends opposite the positive terminal, means adapt-' ed to be detachably secured .to the terminals for simultaneousl lifting the said positive and negative p atessecured to said terminals, and means for preventing the ends of the said negative and positive plates opposite their terminals from sagging when top edges of near their ends opposite their respective being lifted from the jar, prising transverse grooves formed. in the the positive and negative plates terminals, the grooves having openings through which a key may be slipped laterally therein, in the grooves the plates are to be lifted from the ar.

9. The combination with a' storage battery jar having negative and positive plates therein and terminals extending up therefrom, of a rigid metal bar extending across the top of the jar and'provided with openings for receiving the terminals from the plates, short circuiting of the battery through the bar, a flexible band extending from the ends of the bar around beneath the jar, and means for detachably securi n the ends of the band to the extremities of t 1e bar.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALMOND H. SNYDER.

Witnesses:

L. METZEN, P. W. ENGLISH.

JOSEPH STARKENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

' HUGO Pn'mn,

O. B. PETERSON.

insulating bushings for preventing said means comand keys adapted to be placed through said openings when

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