Odd Exide Nozzle Valve Thing

[wvtools]

Has any one here seen one of these before?  It is marked Exide and the valve is a Lunkenheimer.  I thought maybe it had something to do with filling large batteries with acid.  I have it listed on Ebay if you want to see more pictures or description.

[Aunt Phil]

1950s vintage fleet garage battery filler.

It was connected to a low pressure water hose so truck batteries could be filled with water.  If the optics inside are functional the water level can be seen as the battery is topped off.

Before alternators and solid state regulators batteries required much greater supervision. 

[wvtools]

Thanks for the information.  I will add it to the listing.

Thanks,

John

[johnsironsanctuary]

Back in the first half of the 20th century, Exide made a very different kind of forklift battery. The plates were made of a series of tubes they were about an  inch in diameter. Different number and length of the tubes were used for different ampere hour ratings. Each plate was assembled with a lead header bar and looked almost like a conventional battery plate. Each tube consisted of a round bar of antimony lead  about 1/4 inch in diameter surrounded by either positive or negative lead paste and covered by a perforated plastic tube. Each plate was lead welded to a collected bar that ended as either a positive or negative post.  The system worked fairly well, except the the tubes behaved like chimneys while the battery was being charged and a great deal of hydrogen gas was being generated. They consumed a lot of water in the process of charging and so water had to be added every day. All of this was a little before my time in the seventies, but I can see that this would be a useful tool to prevent over filling which causes battery case corrosion and diluted electrolyte.

[pritch]

Back in the first half of the 20th century, Exide made a very different kind of forklift battery. The plates were made of a series of tubes they were about an  inch in diameter. Different number and length of the tubes were used for different ampere hour ratings. Each plate was assembled with a lead header bar and looked almost like a conventional battery plate. Each tube consisted of a round bar of antimony lead  about 1/4 inch in diameter surrounded by either positive or negative lead paste and covered by a perforated plastic tube. Each plate was lead welded to a collected bar that ended as either a positive or negative post.  The system worked fairly well, except the the tubes behaved like chimneys while the battery was being charged and a great deal of hydrogen gas was being generated. They consumed a lot of water in the process of charging and so water had to be added every day. All of this was a little before my time in the seventies, but I can see that this would be a useful tool to prevent over filling which causes battery case corrosion and diluted electrolyte.

Not to hijack the thread, but that sounds like an excellent hydrogen generator! Half a dozen of those somehow plumbed into an intake might start making a difference in MPG.