Battery strap handle

A storage battery and handle assembly comprising:

• a battery housing having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, a bottom wall and a cover, each end wall having a socket formed by a pair of flanges parallel to and spaced from said one end wall, said flanges having mutually opposed end faces and defining an entry opening into a slot between said flanges and said end wall, said end wall also provided with a horizontally elongated rib located below but in general vertical alignment with said slot;
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• a strap with connectors at each end thereof, each connector including a plate portion having flat front and back sides, a pair of side edges and a bottom, with a horizontally projecting strip extending across the bottom of the plate portion, said strip extending beyond said side edges and the front side of the plate portion, and lying flush with the flat back side of the plate portion, said horizontal projecting strip thereby providing horizontal shoulder extending outwardly from and across the front side of the plate portion, said plate portion lying in said slot, with said horizontal shoulder in flush engagement with lower edge surfaces of said pair of flanges, and with a lower edge of said horizontally projecting strip engaged with a top side of said horizontally elongated rib, thereby releasably locking the connector within the slot.