SIDE TERMINAL BATTERY ADAPTER

• US 3,605,065 A
• Filed: 05/20/1970
• Issued: 09/14/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John K. Shannon
• Original Assignee: John K. Shannon
• Inventors: Shannon, John K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Purser, Ernest R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis, Terrell P.
• Application Number:
  US05/039,077
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• Field of Search: 136/134,135,181 339/28,29,114-116,224-237,272R,272A,152,263B
• US Class Current: 439/504
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/553 Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/567 by fixing means, e.g. screws, rivets or bolts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/289 characterised by the shape or the structure of the battery post
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A side terminal battery adapter to convert a conventional installation for use with a battery having conventional terminal posts normally at the top. The adapter has a terminal clamp at one end proportioned to engage the conventional battery terminal post and is secured to an adapter cable of preselected length which terminates at its other end in an adapter-threaded end. The threaded end is characterized by an insulating skin, a nut embedded in its conductive central body portion, and an annular insulating face surrounding the connection proportioned to insulatingly and circumferentially compressibly engage a plastic collar on the side mount terminal of the installation.

Claims

1. A side terminal battery adapter comprising, in combination, a cable, a battery connection means at one end of said cable, a threaded end adapter at the other end of said cable, including a bolt secured therein, body means surrounding said bolt, skin means surrounding said body terminating in an annular surface means concentric with the bolt, said annular surface means being proportioned to yieldably engage a plastic annular collar on the side mount terminal of the existing electrical system.

2. In the side terminal battery adapter of claim 1 above, a nut retainer ring formed above the threaded nut in the adapter-threaded end of the adapter, said nut retainer ring being cast integrally with the body and proportioned to jammingly engage the plate teeth provided on the side mount terminal.

3. In the adapter of claim 1, a frustoconical rim surrounding the nut retainer ring above the threaded nut portion, said frustoconical rim proportioned to jammingly engage a complementary frustoconical collar extending circumferentially around the bolt of the side mount terminal.

4. In the side terminal battery adapter of claim 1, a loose nut provided in the body of the threaded end connector, complementary recess means within the body of said adapter to receive said loose nut, a shoulder at the bottom of said recess to engage the end of the nut but surrounding the interior threaded portion thereof, means defining a bolt hole extension in longitudinal alignment with the threaded portion of said loose nut whereby the bolt of a side mount terminal adapter may be passed therethrough into threaded engagement with the loose nut for securingly connecting the two.

5. In the side terminal battery adapter of claim 2, a loose nut provided in the body of the threaded end connector, complementary recess means within the body of said adapter to receive said loose nut, a shoulder at the bottom of said recess to engage the end of the nut but surrounding the interior threaded portion thereof, means defining a bolt hole extension in longitudinal alignment with the threaded portion of said loose nut whereby the bolt of a side mount terminal adapter may be passed therethrough into threaded engagement with the loose nut for securingly connecting the two.

6. In the adapter of claim 3, a loose nut provided in the body of the threaded end connector, complementary recess means within the body of said adapter to receive said loose nut, a shoulder at the bottom of said recess to engage the end of the nut but surrounding the interior threaded portion thereof, means defining a bolt hole extension in longitudinal alignment with the threaded portion of said loose nut whereby the bolt of a side mount terminal adapter may be passed therethrough into threaded engagement with the loose nut for securingly connecting the two.