Auxiliary wire connections for side post batteries

• US 4,643,511 A
• Filed: 12/19/1985
• Issued: 02/17/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Systems Material Handling Company (TVH Services NV)
• Original Assignee: Systems Material Handling Company (TVH Services NV)
• Inventors: Eccles, Timothy C., Gawlik, Robert F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weidenfeld, Gil
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRADLEY, PAULA A
• Application Number:
  US06/810,723
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 339/224, 339/225, 339/231, 339/232, 339/263 B
• US Class Current: 439/755
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/289 characterised by the shape or the structure of the battery post

Abstract

A mount for attachment of a pair of cables to a side terminal of a battery has a stud releasably connected to the terminal for receiving the perforated lug of one of the cables with the stud having a fastener for releasably attaching thereto the perforated lug of the other cable.

Claims

1. A mount for connecting perforated terminal lugs of a pair of cables directly to a battery side terminal having a hole provided with internal screw threads, said mount comprising:

a stud adapted to extend through the perforation of the lug of one of said cables,

said stud including;

an element at one end of the stud having external screw threads disposed to mesh with said internal threads,

a member intermediate the ends of the stud for clamping said lug of the one cable against said side terminal when the external threads are in mesh with the internal threads,

a device at the opposite end of the stud for releasably attaching the lug of the other cable to the stud, and

structure for preventing displacement of the stud from the lug of said one cable,

said stud having a socket at said opposite end thereof provided with internal screw threads, said device being a fastener adapted to extend through the perforation of the lug of the other cable and having external screw threads disposed to mesh with the threads of the socket.

2. The invention of claim 1, said structure including a sheath covering said lug of the one cable, there being a lip on the sheath surrounding the stud and said stud having an external flange surrounded by the sheath, disposed between the member and the lip and retained by the lip, said stud having a head provided with wrench-engaging flats for rotating the stud to intermesh said threads, said socket extending into the head.

3. The invention of claim 2, said member being a second external flange on the stud disposed to engage the lug of the one cable.

4. The invention of claim 3, said element being a boss integral with the second flange.

5. The invention of claim 4, said lug of the one cable having a cavity housing the flanges.

6. The invention of claim 5, there being a second lip on the lug of said one cable surrounding the perforation of the lug of the one cable and clamped against the side terminal.

7. The invention of claim 6 wherein the stud has a socket at said opposite end thereof provided with internal screw threads, said device being a fastener adapted to extend through the perforation of the lug of the other cable and having external screw threads disposed to mesh with the threads of the socket.

8. The invention of claim 7, said boss, said flanges and said head being a one piece, solid, metallic body.