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Casting machine for grids of lead storage batteries

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6338791
A machine for the casting and subsequent stamping of grids for lead storage batteries, particularly ones consisting of low-Sb and Pb-Ca alloys, has a pouring nozzle to receive and pour a predetermined amount of melt into a casting mold arranged vertically beneath it. For removal from the mold, conveyance and machining of the castings without deformation, particularly if soft alloys are used a lifter for the casting is arranged on the casting mold, by means of which lifter the casting can be brought while remaining in its vertical position onto a conveyor device which is developed as a cooling path for hardening of the casting. At the end of the path a deflection unit repositions the casting which has been transported vertically up to this point into a horizontal position and by a feed device is advanced to a stamping machine from where the grid passes onto a conveyor belt.
Assignee:
Accumulatorenwerk Hoppecke Carl Zoellner and Sohn GmbH and Co. KG. (Germany, Federal Republic of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4455724
OSTI ID:
6338791
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English