Patent ID: 7008719

Claim:
A leakage containment system for a battery support system, said support system including a rack for supporting plural batteries, said leakage containment system comprising: plural, shallow pans disposed substantially under said rack and arranged side-by-side and connected to each other, said pans including opposed sidewalls and opposed endwalls, said pans being secured to each other at adjacent endwalls by mechanical fasteners, said adjacent endwalls of selected ones of adjacent pans including at least a portion having an overall height less than the remaining walls of said selected ones of said pans, respectively, to allow spillover of liquid between adjacent pans to minimize spillover from said leakage containment system; and selected ones of said pans are disposed between others of said pans which contain at least part of said rack for removal from said leakage containment system without removing said rack from said others of said pans.