Battery paste hopper and tooling
AssigneeWirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc.
InventorsSergiu Nicoara, Scott A. Mercurio
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Abstract
A battery paste application tooling assembly includes a hopper, a connector assembly, and a clamp assembly. The battery paste application tooling assembly can be equipped in a pasting machine. The hopper receives battery paste material. The hopper has an orifice plate with an orifice therein. The connector assembly is engageable with the orifice plate and disengageable therefrom. The clamp assembly is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the clamp assembly releasable secures the orifice plate to the hopper. In the second position, the clamp assembly permits removal of the orifice plate from the hopper.
Claims15
A battery paste application tooling assembly, comprising;
- a hopper for receipt of battery paste material, the hopper having an orifice plate with an orifice for dispensing the battery paste material from the hopper;
- a connector at least in part carried by the hopper, the connector engageable with the orifice plate and disengageable from the orifice plate, the connector having at least one shaft and at least one bracket engageable with and rotatable about the at least one shaft and disengageable from the at least one shaft;
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- a clamp at least in part carried by the hopper, the clamp movable to a first position releaseably securing the orifice plate in engagement with the hopper and the connector, and the clamp movable to a second position permitting disengagement and removal of the orifice plate from the clamp, connector, and hopper, the clamp having at least one finger urging the orifice plate into engagement with the connector and with the hopper when the clamp is in the first position and disengaged from the orifice plate when the clamp is in the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.