Battery jig
AssigneeS & K Racing Products, Inc.
InventorPatrick D. Gordin
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Abstract
The battery clamping jig for smaller sized single cell batteries. The jig holds a plurality of batteries in parallel and spaced apart position with opposite ends exposed as that batteries can easily be electrically connected together by soldering conducting strips between batteries. A bottom plate includes recesses matingly or fittingly conforming to at least a portion of the batteries. A top plate also has similar recesses. A restraining member such as a strap with hook end loop fastening material on it can be used to clamp and hold the top and bottom plates together either to clamp batteries in position, or to hold the first and second plates together securely for transport or storage. The jig can be used for as few as two batteries or for many more batteries.
Claims15
A battery jig for clamping in place a plurality of single cell cylindrical batteries having positive and negative electrical terminals at opposite ends in generally parallel relationship to facilitate unobstructed access to said opposite ends for installing and working on electrical connections between adjacent ends of opposite ends of certain of the batteries to create and maintain battery packs each comprising a plurality of said batteries having adjacent electrically connected electrical terminals comprising:
- a first plate means including a battery clamping surface;
- a second plate means including a battery clamping surface;
- the first and second plate means having longitudinal axes extending between opposite ends and a plurality of recesses in the battery clamping surfaces generally equally spaced apart along and transverse to the longitudinal axes, the recesses being adapted to receive at least a portion of a battery without obstructing access to its electrical terminals;
- adjustable securing means associated with the first and second plate means for bringing the first and second plate means towards one another and providing clamping pressure by the battery clamping surfaces against the plurality of batteries therebetween, while leaving said opposite ends of the batteries generally unobstructed.
A battery clamping jig for holding sets of one-cell cylindrically-shaped batteries, each having positive and negative terminals at opposite ends, in position to allow access to electrical connections between adjacent terminals without obstruction by the jig comprising:
- a first plate including a long axis extending between first and second opposite ends and transverse recesses along a surface adapted to receive and position batteries along the long axis of and transversely across the first plate in parallel but spaced apart positions;
- a second plate including a long axis extending between opposite ends also including recesses adapted along a surface transverse to the long axis and to receive and position batteries in parallel but spaced apart positions;
- slot means in the second end of the first plate to receive a strap means;
- the strap means connected at said first end of the first plate and being extendable to the slot means in the second end of the first plate and of sufficient length to substantially double over itself and securement means to secure the strap means;
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- so that when a set of batteries is positioned between said first and second plates said strap mans can extend from its connection of the first end of the first plate over the second plate along its long axis, through the slot and back over the second plate towards the first end of the first plate and be secured to maintain clamping action on the set of batteries without obstructing access to their terminals at opposite ends.
A method of securing batteries in parallel position for soldering electrical connecting bars between adjacent ends of batteries comprising:
- placing a plurality of batteries in parallel but spaced apart recesses adapted to receive at least a portion of the batteries but without obstructing electrical terminals on at least one end of the batteries, the recesses being positioned in a top surface of a bottom plate means;
- securing a clamping strap in one end of the bottom plate means;
- placing a top plate means having parallel but spaced apart recesses on its bottom surface generally parallel but spaced apart to receive at least a portion of the batteries but without obstructing electrical terminals on at least one end of the batteries, over the batteries position in the bottom plate;
- directing the strap from the first end of the bottom plate over the top plate means when placed over the batteries and threading the strap through a slot in the opposite end of the bottom plate, and doubling the strap back upon itself over the top plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.