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US 5,628,825 AGranted
Battery lug heating apparatus
AssigneeTbs Engineering Limited
InventorRobert T. Hopwood
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Abstract
This invention relates to apparatus for heating the lugs of battery plates. The apparatus 10 includes a hot air duct 11 which communicates with a nozzle 12 having a head 13 that defines a pair of opposite facing nozzles 14. Each nozzle 14 has an outlet 15 from which extends a generally flat and divergent plate 16. The plate 16 entrains hot air passing through the outlet 15 into a generally flat stream so that the hot air impinges on lugs 19, but not of the rest of the group 18 of plates and separators.
Claims9
An apparatus for heating a lug of a battery plate, said apparatus comprising:
- means for defining a treatment position for said plate with said lug projecting into a lug position,
- a nozzle connectable to a source of hot gas and having an outlet directed at said lug position, and
- means for defining a surface extending from said outlet and diverging from a direction of said outlet away from said treatment position, whereby hot gas passing through said nozzle will be entrained into a gas stream passing through said lug position and along said surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.