Installation for producing both AGM and wet-cell batteries for passenger-car and commercial-vehicle battery types

An installation for producing both AGM and wet-cell batteries for passenger-car and commercial-vehicle battery types, comprising:

• centrally arranged rotatably mounted transport apparatus for transporting a clamping cartridge which is fitted with a battery plate to be processed, with a lifting and/or rotating apparatus to an individual one of a plurality of process stations of the installation, comprising;
• a feed station with gripper systems on a transport apparatus for feeding and discharging a battery plate pack to the clamping cartridges with a lug-aligning and lug-bending apparatus,
• a heatable tin bath with a fluxing agent wetting apparatus and a drying device,
• a lead bath station with a stationary lead melting pot, and
• a boxing station with gripper systems for removing the battery plate packs from the individually designable clamping cartridges and feeding and boxing battery cases, and
• a central control apparatus,
• wherein two heatable and movable lead bath carriages are arranged such that they can be allocated at the lead bath station at the stationary lead melting pot for hot lead bath changing, of which one of the two carriages contains a second lead bath, a pumping/suction apparatus with lifting function which serves for lead bath changing being arranged on both carriages, and both the pumping/suction apparatus and a pivot axis which is arranged fixedly on the carriage being arranged such that they can be pivoted in each case separately about a rotational axis (B) and about a rotational axis (A), respectively, and the pumping/suction apparatus being connected in a positionally changeable manner,
• in that the gripper system is at the same time equipped with a separately actuatable filling mechanism, and
• in that the clamping cartridge has at least one dimensioning insert in order to receive battery plate packs dimensioned with different sizes and shapes, and
• in that the control apparatus is equipped with a necessary processing sequence program for handling various battery plate types.