The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-06
NEW GRID ENDS
BATTERY FAULT
Firmly Holds Active Ma
terial to Surface; Not
Affected by Vibration

Wuau your storage battery goes
burt ou you as Of course u IL bound
! 10 do sooner -. Later there are pretty
/ good chances that the trouble H. due
/ TO the active material falling off the
/ plates. From th" time we first start
| ed 20 use them. batteries have been
more or lees sIbjcct 10 playing this
|trick on ~ There are q number Of
i,als.s for 49, OVcrcharginR and
overcoming might he called the
chemical causes However just plain
old shaking ~ a car that runs mono
/ too smoothly is the principal cause.
Engineers have tried 10 remedy
! this evil with more or less success.
! The stuff-aCtiye material, battery
men olll It's not very sticky AZ
/ best and the problem has always
! been 10 mako n grid that would
hold 70. Il is just Ike plas,ering d
| housr. II YOU have trouble with
/ the plaster falling "ff and cannot
| change tho plaster YOU VIII confin"
your efforts To- invcntiug "a kind OF
! lath that win hold what plaster YOU
must usr. This Is the case With the
7 storage battery plate, according TO
IJ. T.. Kay who iH manager of the
/ S1porior battery station at 307 South
! Boulder avenue.
According 10 Mr.. Kay his COMPANY
/ has nov q grid that viii effectively
/ hold its active material. This grid IL
a departure from the ones commonly
in use In that while most Erids have
I the material divided up into from
1.-TWO hundred 10 three hundred little
! bloci,s all over the plate. the new
| superior plat" has only eight blocks
! of material u is so made that
I there is an inside TO the grid and
the active material is inside of - la
we'll as on IT, Mr.. Kay has demon
stration plate at his office whore he
shows how u strip OF cardboard can
be slid inside each ~ the eight parii-
tions of tho plate Ifo shows how
wen tn" material is held by taking q
| loaded grid aud rapping II against
the table. white when tho plate con
monlv IN use is Jared the material
viii fall of i'm little hlocks.
Mr. Kay explained that hts firm
~ giving an iS month Ruaraute"
with now batteries no matter what
, Kind OF a car they are used on.
other makcrR of batteries mako Il
distinction as 10 cars. one or two
Of the smaller ears Al" not very
easy riding and batteries supplied 10
these cars usually carry a guarantee
Of not more than 90 days. for they
hive a tendency to shake tho active
I material loose.
The Superior battery Is somewhat
less expensive than others. The rra-
son for this II that the factories of
the cbmpany are located N Kansas
! city which IL near raw material Lead
which is heavy stuff, and which
makes mp most Of Nhe weight OF \
} II orage battery, is obtained by all
makers OF batteries from the Joplin
mining district There Is conse-
quently a great saving OF freight In
being near the mines.
Another advantage which Mr.. Kay
claims for his product is tn" ma
tcriai the Jars are made OF. superior
battery makers use red rubber II Is
quite pliahle and cannot breaI. SUI
pcrior batteries are entirely i'and
made and the separators, which are
the insulators between tho plates
are made of finest quality Of cedar