Apparatus for recovering lead from storage batteries

• US 3,152,504 A
• Filed: 12/06/1961
• Issued: 10/13/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert T. Brown
• Original Assignee: Robert T. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Robert T.
• Application Number:
  US04/157,516
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• US Class Current: 83/419
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/54 Reclaiming serviceable parts of waste accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/84 Recycling of batteries or fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 260/17 High polymeric, resinous, antistatic agents
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 83/953 with work support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49755 Separating one material from another
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49819 with conveying of work or disassembled work part
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49821 by altering or destroying work part or connector
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5148 including severing means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53278 Storage cell or battery
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/6574 By work-stopping abutment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9454 Reciprocable type

Claims

1. FOR USE WITH STORAGE BATTERIES EACH CONSISTING OF A CASING, LEAD TERMINALS PROJECTING FROM THE TOP OF SAID CASING, LEAD CONNECTOR PLATES WITHIN SAID CASING IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE TOP THEREOF AND IN CONTACT WITH SAID LEAD TERMINALS, A PLURALITY OF SPACED LEAD PLATES WITHIN SAID CASING, AND LUGS ON SAID LEAD PLATES EXTENDING TOWARDS AND ENGAGING SAID LEAD CONNECTOR PLATES, SAID STORAGE BATTERIES HAVING A PLANE THERETHROUGH PARALLEL TO THE TOP OF THE CASING AND THE TOPS OF THE LEAD TERMINALS BETWEEN SAID LEAD PLATES AND SAID LEAD CONNECTOR PLATES, WHICH PLANE PASSES THROUGH THE CASING AND THE LUGS ONLY AND DOES NOT PASS THROUGH SAID LEAD PLATES OR SAID LEAD CONNECTOR PLATES, APPARATUS FOR OPENING SAID STORAGE BATTERIES ALONG SAID PLANE COMPRISING:

(A) A SHEAR BLADE, (B) GUIDE MEANS IN WHICH SAID SHEAR BLADE MAY BE RECIPROCATED IN ONE DIRECTION OR SELECTIVELY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, (C) POWER MEANS TO FORCE SAID SHEAR BLADE IN SAID GUIDE MEANS IN ONE DIRECTION OR SELECTIVELY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, (D) CONVEYOR MEANS TO BRING SAID STORAGE BATTERIES TO A POSITION IN THE PATH OF SAID SHEAR BLADE AND TO SUPPORT SAID STORAGE BATTERIES AS THE SHEAR BLADE IS PASSED THERETHROUGH, AND (E) BACKUP MEANS ON THE SIDE OF SAID SHEAR BLADE OPPOSITE THE BOTTOMS OF SAID STORAGE BATTERIES AND ADAPTED TO CONTACT THE LEAD TERMINALS OF SAID STORAGE BATTERIES TO LIMIT MOVEMENT OF SAID STORAGE BATTERIES, (F) SAID BACKUP MEANS BEING ARRANGED RELATIVE TO SAID SHEAR BLADE TO POSITION SAID STORAGE BATTERIES WITH THE SAID PLANE BETWEEN THE TOPS OF THE LEADS PLATES AND THE BOTTOMS OF THE LEAD CONNECTOR PLATES LYING IN THE PLANE OF THE SHEAR BLADE.