Patent ID: 8756798

Claim:
A device for fitting and equipping motor vehicle battery housings as a compact system, composed of individual fabrication stations and associated transport devices, wherein battery plate packs which are to be processed are arranged in clamping cartridges and are made available to the device with a necessary pack width, comprising: a total of four processing stations are arranged about an electrically driven lifting/rotary table, the four processing stations are each arranged offset through 90° around the lifting/rotary table, at least one feed belt which serves to feed clamping cartridges fitted with tested battery plates, one or more lug aligners which can be lowered from above, one or more lug benders which can be lowered from above, and a pivoting mechanism which serves to pivot the clamping cartridges through 180° and can be actuated after lowering of the lifting/rotary table are arranged at processing station 1 , one or more fluxing devices which serve to wet the lugs of the battery plates with fluxing agent and can be fed to the clamping cartridges from below, one or more tin baths which serve to tin-plate the lugs of the battery plates, are heated, can be raised from below in an upward direction and lowered and have one or more strippers which serve to remove oxidate, a drying device which serves to dry the tin-plated lugs and is mounted in a tiltable fashion, and a pivoting mechanism which serves to pivot the clamping cartridges through 180° and can be actuated after lowering of the lifting/rotary table are arranged at processing station 2 , at least one casting bridge discharge device with a separate pneumatic lifting device, one or more heatable lead molds which are arranged under the clamping cartridge, and at least one setting down/lifting device which serves to dip the clamping cartridge, rotated downward with the lugs, into the lead mold are arranged at processing station 3 , at least one pivoting mechanism which can be actuated when the lifting/rotary table is lowered, one or more gripper gantries which are equipped with at least six grippers, can be lowered to the clamping cartridges and serve to remove the battery plate packs, at least two boxing-in frames, and one or more conveyor belts which serve to transport and to rotate the battery housings, which are made available, and are equipped with a rotary device are arranged at processing station 4 .