Thomas A. Edison's Latest Invention A Storage Battery Designed and Constructed from the Automobile User's Point of View ...
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The Batteries operating
these cars have all been service over a
period from four seven years .. will sufficient, there
fore, describe the A-4 cell.....15
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225 300
2;0 360
tubes are very thin sheet steel, per
forated with small holes, and packed or
"loaded" (very tightly special ma
chines) with nickel hydrate, interspersed
with pure nickel the form
flakes extreme thinness. noteworthy that the ele
tion and shocks which vehicle battery ment does not have supported at
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plates, therefore, the height and breadth
of the containing jar "can" are al
ways the same, and the only variation
occurs the width the container,
which must increased decreased ac
cording the number plates the
element... The can embossed places considerable distance above the bot- :
to receive hard-rubber buttons, main- tom the cell, the lead storage
tain slight separation air-gap be- cell, prevent short circuiting the
tween adjacent cans, and anchor the plates the falling the active ma
can its proper place the wood terial the bottom the jar.
Tiffany Company replaced lead batter
ies with Edison Batteries three their
delivery wagons, seven years ago.
Outside measurement Zih X
can, inches 12J
Rei�ht top pole,
inches 13§
Weizht complete single
cdl, pounds 13. Rods
to give the greatest stiffness with mini- and cross-pieces the same material
mum weight.
Hearn Son, after operating fifteen cars
equipped with Edison Battery for three
years, discarded lead battery equipment
in twelve cars and installed Edison Batter
ies, making total twenty-seven Edison
equipped cars.00 .. The battery has the autogenous method after the e]e-
Re-sales tell the story of
superiority of
The Ne·w Edison
Storage Battery
Whether you are user pros
pective user electric vehicles,
either pleasure commercial, read
through this chain evidence :
The Adams Express Company, seven years ago replaced lead battery
equipment four oftheir delivery trucks, with Edison equipment...
The outer surfaces the two end
plates the element are securely in
sulated from the walls the can by
sheets perforated hard rubber.. The Edison not subj eet any the ills the lead
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battery-it not injured over
charging, too rapid discharge,
by complete discharge nor by
standing idle for any length of
time either charged discharged . Vantine Son have been operating
thirteen Edison equipped vehicles over a
period four and half years.00
20 . Macy Company have been oper
ating seventeen Edison Battery equipped
cars for the past three and half years. They
have since bought eighteen more cars, all
Edison equipped. the
battery tray containing the set cells. This construe;
tion one the radical improvements
over the old Edison cell. The only
other visible materal the hard rubber
of the stuffing boxes and the soft-rub
ber top the filling aperture.
Abraham Straus, when they decided
to put motor vehicle equipment, pur
chased twelve vehicles equipped with the
Edison Battery
A. The
ment assembled the can.
battery certainly looks good. The seams are welded serve respectively separate adjacent
the autogenous method, insuring safety plates the element and support the
from leakage that might otherwise de- element whole above the bottom of
velop from the severe mechanical vibra- the can.ge 30.
R.andard a8sembled bat�
tery 14.
assembled vehicle battery claimed The thin nickel flake formed an
weig]h not much more than half much ingenious machine which deposits alter
as lead battery the same output- nate electro-platings copper and
a 64-cell battery for one-ton truck nickel, the copper being dissolved out
weighing 900 pounds, compared with subsequently.09 .
Four the foremost electric pleasure
vehicles are now regularly equipped
with Storage Battery-
Detroit, Bailey, Baker, and Waverly. Each the 4Vs-inch tubes
in the grid contains about 350 the
In accordance with the low weight tiny nickel disks and their alternating
the cell, obtained the special voltaic layers hydrate, that the maximum
combination described, very light but distance through which the current has
strong wood battery trap employed, penetrate, the charge and discharge
of skeleton construction and with bent- the cell, only one-half the thickness
wood instead dovetailed corners..
The plates each group, positive and
negative, are hung their horizontal
connecting rods, with spacing bushings ,
between the lugs the plates and nut
at each end the rod. requires less care
and attention than any other bat
tery and its life many times that
of the lead battery. The problem
was bring every part the hydrate ,n
the plate into active service insuring
permanent electrical contact with its con
necting g]rid, and this result attained
by the thin disks nickel stacked in
the tube alternation with the layers
of hydrate, forming the tube into mass
of intimate physical and electrical con
tacts between hydrate and nickel and be
tween the edges the nickel disks and
perforated wall the tube the same
time permitting intimate contact with
the electrolyte which the tube im
mersed, and which seeps through the
perforations. com- The remaining part the cell, the top
pact set metal cans, with chance cover the can, welded place
slopping] breaking. A-S..34
P per c('l1 a
St. The grid a
double rectangle shape, with center
rib, and supports the tubes two rows
of flfteen each, set closely together.. I
lowing parts The can, sheet steel
receptacle containing the element and
electrolyte, and having top fitted with
stuffing boxes for the positive and nega
tive terminal posts, and with gas valve
and filling aperture the element, con
Sisting group positive plates con
taining the nickel active material and
connected multiple with the positive
terminal nickel-plated steel bolt and
nuts, the group being intermeshed with
a group negative plates containing the
iron active material and similarly con
nected multiple and with the nega
tive terminal and the electrolyte, con
sisting] per cent solution pure
potassium hydrate (caustic potash) 'm
distilled water.21
Normal discharge rate,
11mperes 30
Average voltage normal
rme 2
Ratefl ampere-hour out-
put 150
Rate(! watt-hour outpn! 18\)
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19.. There are
also manufactured two cells with
smaller plates, for ignition and other
light work, the B-2 and B-4 cells, rated
at and ampere-hours respectively..
The table below gives the dimensions
and the output the three sizes of
vehicle cells :
A-4.
45
more the appearance road service,
and smacks less the electrical labora
tory, and this highly mechanical look is
justified the internal construction of
the element working electrochemi
cal machine....
. The latter consists iron !
oxide very similar ordinary "iron "
rust," subjected heavy preSS'!lre the
containing pockets, that each mass of
active material practically integral
with the grid. Edison cell there little loss Of
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,
To the automobile owner the vehicle active material..
The United States Express Company have
been operating twenty-five vehicles with
Edison Battery for several years.... The can
is sheet steel, with corrugated walls
The neg]ative iron-oxide plates, of
the same length and width the posi- ':
tive plates, consist grid three
rows eight flat, rectangular pockets,
each perforated like the tubes the posi
tive plate with fine holes permit con
tact the electrolyte with the active I
material. The positive plates, con
taining the positive nickel-hYdrate ac
tive material, consist grid nickel
plated steel, holding little tubes packed
with the active material. The tubes
are formed with double-lapped spiral
seam, and are reinforced rings fer�
rules which maintain internal contact
between the nickel hydrate and flake
nickel and the internal walls the tube
by preventing bulging the tube ex
pansion its contents.
Frederick Loeser Company, Brook
lyn, after operating Edison Battery for
one year one their vehicles that was
made for lead battery equipment, replaced
lead batteries with Edison Batteries six
more cars..
The Edison built withstand
the most intense vibration and
rough usage. delicate are the nickel
1,550 pounds 44-ce11 lead battery disks cut from this electro-plated sheet
Ithe same capacity.AME RICAN
( Continued from pa... The '
gas valve, preventing loss elec- I
trolyte during charge, eliminates fuming
of the cells, minimizes the amount of
filling for evaporation and renders i
unnecessary add anything but distilled . A-B...
Write today regarding the
New Edison Storage Battery for
electric motor vehiele propulsion,
gasoline car motor boat ignition,
incandescent lighting ofrour motor
car, yacht motor boat-or for
any other battery requirements .
THESEvehicles are today giving more than double the mileage of
electric pleasure vehicles with lead batteries-an average well over
a hundred miles charge, while the lead battery most instances
will not give average better than fifty miles charge.. Rising from the
middle the rod the vertical terminal
post, having] taper top for making good
electrical contact with the adjoining cell
or with the external circuit. The ter
minal-post stuffing boxes, the gas valve I
which separates entrained electrolyte ;
from the spraying the gas charging,
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and prevents from escaping, and the
filling aperture with its automatic spring]
cap, are water-tig]ht, prevent the i
leakage electrolyte service. Since
that time they have purchased over cars, all equipped with
Edison Batteries.January 191 SCIENTIFfC .
The metal the cell all nickel
plated iron, that pure nickel surface
is everywhere presented, protecting the
metal from rust corrosion.. the exceedingly thin layer hydrate..
The weight the Edison only about half, per capacity, that the
lead battery. that handful them light so
The A-4 Edison cell consists the fol- much feathers
