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US 4,288,504 AGranted
Sealed battery cable termination
OwnerVictor J. Julian, Kenneth A. Julianinventors
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Abstract
A terminal of a storage battery has an upstanding boss surrounded by an annular groove and a terminal plate has an embossment which fits against said boss and a resilient sealing being which is compressed into the groove by a bolt which extends through an opening through said embossment into a threaded hole through said boss.
Claims8
In combination,
- a storage battery having a wall formed of an insulating material having a hole therethrough,
- a metallic terminal extending through said hole in sealing relationship with said wall,
- said terminal having a cylindrical portion on the external side of said wall,
- an upstanding flange on said wall surrounding said cylindrical portion and extending outwardly beyond the distal end of said terminal,
- said terminal having a centrally disposed cylindrical boss defining with said flange an annular open top groove surrounding said boss,
- said terminal having an internally threaded, axial blind hole opening onto said distal end, an electric cable having a terminal connector affixed thereto,
- said terminal connector including,
- a terminal plate having an opening therethrough in alignment with said hole in said terminal,
- said terminal plate having a depending annular portion surrounding said opening and abutting said distal end of said terminal,
- a plastic, insulating cover molded directly over said terminal plate and having an annular, resilient lip portion extending into said groove, and
- a terminal bolt extending through said opening and threaded into said hole and holding said terminal plate in contact with said distal end of said terminal and said lip in compression in said groove.
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In combination,
- a storage battery having a wall formed of an insulating material having a hole through,
- a metallic battery terminal extending through said hole in sealing relationship with said wall,
- said terminal having a cylindrical portion on the external side of said wall,
- a continuous, upstanding annular flange on said wall surrounding said terminal,
- said terminal having an internally threaded, axial blind hole opening onto the external end thereof,
- an electric cable having a terminal connector affixed thereto,
- said terminal connector including a terminal plate having an opening therethrough in alignment with said hole in said terminal,
- said terminal plate abutting said external end of said terminal,
- a resilient, plastic insulating cover positioned over said plate with openings on opposite side thereof in alignment in said opening,
- a terminal bolt extending through said openings and threaded into said hole and holding said terminal plate in contact with said external end of said terminal, and
- said cover being held by said bolt in compression with said upstanding annular flange.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.