Battery package

• US 4,848,568 A
• Filed: 11/01/1988
• Issued: 07/18/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bruce W. Eckelman
• Original Assignee: Bruce W. Eckelman
• Inventors: Eckelman, Bruce W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William
• Application Number:
  US07/265,537
• Time in Patent Office: 259 Days
• Field of Search: 206/333
• US Class Current: 206/705
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/213 adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic H01M50/209, H01M50/216 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A container has top, bottom and side walls with open ends. A slot is provided in each of the top and bottom walls and lead in opposite directions from respective ends of the top and bottom walls and terminate short of the respective other ends. The container and its end openings are dimensioned to receive slidably a plurality of batteries with the cathode of some of the batteries projecting through the slot in the top wall and the cathode of others of the batteries projecting through the slot in the bottom wall whereby to distinguish between batteries contained in the holder.

Claims

1. A package for batteries of the type having an end projecting cathode, said package comprising:

a container having top, bottom and side walls,

said container having open ends,

a slot in each of said top and bottom walls,

said slots leading in opposite directions from respective ends of said top and bottom walls and terminating short of the respective other ends,

said container and its end openings being dimensioned to receive slidably a plurality of batteries with the cathode of some of said batteries projecting through the slot in the top wall and the cathode of others of said batteries projecting through the slot in said bottom wall whereby to distinguish between batteries contained in said holder.

2. The package of claim 1 including upright rib means interiorly of said container frictionally resisting but permitting slidable movement of said batteries therein.

3. The package of claim 1 wherein said slots slidably receive the cathode of the batteries in projecting relation for viewing exteriorly of said holder.