Combination battery carrier and voltmeter

• US 3,185,921 A
• Filed: 08/10/1961
• Issued: 05/25/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Chester A. Sumter
• Original Assignee: Chester A. Sumter
• Inventors: Sumter, Chester A.
• Application Number:
  US04/130,687
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• US Class Current: 324/429
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/364 Battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3646 for indicating electrical conditions or variables, e.g. visual or audible indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/256 Carrying devices, e.g. belts
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Claims

1. IN A COMBINATION BATTERY CARRIER AND VOLTMETER, THE COMBINATION OF A BATTERY CARRIER COMPRISING AN ELONGATED INSULATED HANDLE, A BATTERY POST ENGAGING AND CONNECTING MEMBER MOUNTED ON SAID HANDLE, SAID MEMBER BEING OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, A SECOND BATTERY POST CONNECTING MEMBER OF CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL MOUNTED ON SAID HANDLE IN INSULATED RELATION WITH RESPECT TO THE FIRST MENTIONED BATTERY POST ENGAGING MEMBER, SAID POST CONNECTING MEMBERS HAVING MEANS THEREON TO GRIP THE BATTERY POSTS AS THE HANDLE IS LIFTED, A VOLTMETER INCLUDING A CASING PORTION, A SCALE FACE, A POINTER AND OPERATING MEANS FOR THE POINTER CONNECTED UPON SAID HANDLE WITH THE SCALE READING FACING UPWARDLY, SAID VOLTMETER HAVING A PAIR OF TERMINALS, ONE OF WHICH IS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID BATTERY POST CONNECTING MEMBERS AND THE OTHER TERMINAL BEING CONNECTED CONDUCTIVELY TO THE OTHER BATTERY POST CONNECTING MEMBER.