Patent ID: 6447948
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
An electric storage battery cell jar having a base, adjacent perpendicular side walls and opposite parallel side walls, and including a support bridge for supporting a plurality of plates therein, and comprising:(a) a plurality of elongate support members positioned on said base of the jar for supporting at least one battery plate in spaced-apart relation above the base; (i) a first array of said support members having a first end adjacent to one of said side walls of the jar and extending outwardly from the side wall at an oblique angle thereto and terminating at a second end remote from any side wall of the jar, said first array of support members being spaced-apart from each other at all points along their respective lengths; and (ii) a second array of said support members positioned intermediate the side walls and having at least one segment positioned at an angle oblique to the side walls, at least one segment extending at an oblique angle to the side walls, and at least one segment extending parallel to at least one of the sidewalls and perpendicular to at least one of said side walls, said second array of support members being spaced-apart from each other at all points along their respective lengths; and (iii) said first array of said support members and said second array of said support members collectively spaced on the base of the jar to support each of the plates therein.