Battery tray

• US 4,327,809 A
• Filed: 06/18/1979
• Issued: 05/04/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mr. Gasket, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Orion Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Fenstermaker, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Underwood, Donald W.
• Application Number:
  US06/049,394
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.5, 180/65 R, 280/37, 280/152 A, 280/152 R, 105/50, 105/51, 429/100, 248/300, 248/503, 248/558, 206/335
• US Class Current: 180/68.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/04 Arrangement of batteries

Abstract

A battery tray for an automotive vehicle is constructed for use as a replacement item and is adapted to receive the great majority of commercially available lead storage batteries. The battery tray is constructed with a rectangular floor bounded by edge retainers and with three spaced sunken wells arranged along the length of the floor. A pair of spaced apart elongated slots are defined in each of the end wells parallel to the longer floor sides and a circular aperture is defined therebetween. At least one elongated transverse slot is defined in the center well.

Claims

1. A battery tray for an automotive vehicle electrical storage battery comprising a solid rectangular floor having longer and shorter sides and upwardly directed retaining lips about the perimeter of said floor and said floor is contoured to form two shallow end wells and a shallow center well spaced longitudinally across said floor along the longer dimension thereof defined as the distance between said shorter sides, said pair of end wells and said center well being spaced apart each from the other for providing a floor portion therebetween to bear the weight of said battery and balance said battery when dynamic loads are applied thereto, and a pair of elongated slots are defined in each of said end wells parallel to said longer floor sides and transversely spaced from each other, and a circular aperture is defined between said elongated slots in each of said end wells, and at least one elongated transverse slot is defined in said center well, and the lips along said longer sides include bearing ledges adapted to receive and secure upright fastening poles.

2. A battery tray according to claim 1 further characterized in that said longer sides of said floor are approximately 275.59 millimeters long and said shorter sides of said floor are approximately 143.33 millimeters long, and a slot in each of said end wells is located approximately 38.1 millimeters from one of said longer sides and another slot in each of said end wells is located approximately 134.62 millimeters from said same side, and said circular apertures in said end wells are located approximately 92.71 millimeters from said same side.

3. A battery tray according to claim 2 further characterized in that said slot in said center well lies in perpendicular alignment to said longer sides of said floor and is centered approximately 92.71 millimeters from said same longer side and approximately 137.92 millimeters from one of said shorter sides of said floor.

4. A battery tray according to claim 3 further characterized in that the slots in each end well are longitudinally offset from each other and are each about 37.59 millimeters in length, and said slots located approximately 38.1 millimeters from the aforesaid same longer side of said floor terminate about 31.62 millimeters from opposite ones of said shorter sides of said floor and said slots located approximately 134.62 millimeters from said same longer side terminate about 46.99 millimeters from said shorter sides of said floor, and said circular apertures in said two end wells are centered approximately 64.77 millimeters from opposite ones of said shorter sides.

5. A battery tray according to claim 1 further characterized in that said longer sides of said floor are approximately 337.82 millimeters long and said shorter sides of said floor are approximately 184.15 millimeters long, and a slot in each of said end wells is centered approximately 41.91 millimeters from one of said longer sides and another slot in each of said end wells is centered approximately 131.06 millimeters from said same side, and said circular apertures in said end walls are located approximately 93.71 millimeters from said same side.

6. A battery tray according to claim 5 further characterized in that two slots are defined in said center well, and a first of said center well slots lies in perpendicular alignment to said longer sides of said floor and extends a distance of about 34.29 millimeters and terminates approximately 24.77 millimeters from said same longer side and is approximately centered between said shorter sides, and a second of said center well slots lies at an angle of approximately 16.75°

from perpendicular alignment relative to said longer sides of said floor and extends toward said longer side from a location centered approximately 131.06 millimeters from said same longer side and in alignment with said first center well slot.

7. A battery tray according to claim 6 further characterized in that the slots in each end well are longitudinally aligned with each other and are about 41.99 millimeters in length, and said end well slots closest to the center of said second center well slot terminate about 36.2 millimeters from one of said shorter sides of said floor and said slots in said end well most remote from the center of said second center well slot terminate about 52.71 millimeters from the opposite one of said shorter sides of said floor.