Battery receiving, charging, and dispensing device

• US 3,171,568 A
• Filed: 11/03/1961
• Issued: 03/02/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Arwine
• Original Assignee: Robert Arwine
• Inventors: ROBERT ARWINE
• Application Number:
  US04/149,916
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• US Class Current: 221/66
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Claims

2. A RECEIVING, CHARGING, AND DISPENSING DEVICE FOR RECHARGEABLE FLASHLIGHT TYPE BATTERIES, COMPRISING A GUIDEWAY FOR THE RECEPTION OF A MULTIPLICITY OF SUCH BATTERIES ENGAGED WITH EACH OTHER IN A LONGITUDINALLY MOVABLE ROW, THE ROW MOVING AND THE BATTERIES PROGRESSING IN THE GUIDEWAY UPON INTRODUCTION INTO THE LATTER OF A SPENT BATTERY AT ONE END OF THE ROW, MEANS PERMITTING THE INTRODUCTION OF BATTERIES INTO THE GUIDEWAY AT SAID ONE END THEREOF ONLY, SUCH PROGRESSION OF THE BATTERIES CAUSING DISPENSING FROM THE GUIDEWAY OF THE BATTERY AT THE OTHER END OF THE ROW, THE BATTERIES EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE ROW IN SIDE-BY-SIDE ENGAGEMENT, A BATTERY CHARGING UNIT MOUNTED IN THE DEVICE AND INCLUDING A CHARGING CIRCUIT, CONTACTS IN THE GUIDEWAY POSITIONED TO ENGAGE THE TERMINAL ENDS OF THE BATTERIES IN ANY PROGRESSIVE POSITION THEROF AND CONNECTED TO THE CHARGING CIRCUIT;

THE CONTACTS BEING SPRING STRIPS EXTENDING LENGTHWISE OF THE GUIDEWAY AND SECURED AT THEIR ENDS NEAREST SAID ONE END OF THE GUIDEWAY AND SLOPING THENCE TOWARD EACH OTHER IN THE DIRECTION OF THE OTHER END OF THE GUIDEWAY, AND MEANS AT SAID OTHER END OF THE GUIDEWAY RELEASABLY HOLDING THE ADJACENT BATTERY