US 12,087,898 B2
Battery grid feeder for a pasting machine
Sergiu Nicoara, Port Huron, MI (US); Scott A. Mercurio, Clyde Twp., MI (US); Thomas J. Shaw, Forth Gratiot, MI (US); and Frederick M. Hewett, Fort Gratiot, MI (US)
Assigned to Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc., Port Huron, MI (US)
Filed by Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc., Port Huron, MI (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/677,053.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/151,080, filed on Feb. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271324 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 4/20 (2006.01); B05C 11/02 (2006.01); B05C 13/02 (2006.01); H01M 10/04 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 10/0404 (2013.01) [B05C 11/025 (2013.01); B05C 13/02 (2013.01); H01M 4/20 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A grid guidance device for guiding battery grids to a battery pasting machine, the grid guidance device comprising:
a platform carried by the battery pasting machine at a location that is upstream of a pasting orifice of the battery pasting machine, the platform receiving the battery grids thereover prior to pasting of the battery grids at the pasting orifice; and
an assembly operably associated with the platform in order to adjust the position of the platform with respect to the pasting orifice of the battery pasting machine, the assembly comprising a first electric motor, a first shaft, a second electric motor, a second shaft, a third electric motor, and a third shaft, wherein a transverse position of the battery grids with respect to the pasting orifice is adjustable via rotation of the first shaft by the first electric motor, an advancement and retraction position of at least an exit end of the platform with respect to the pasting orifice is adjustable via rotation of the second shaft by the second electric motor, and a raising and lowering position of at least the exit end of the platform with respect to the pasting orifice is adjustable via rotation of the third shaft by the third electric motor.