Battery storage and dispensing unit

Claim 1

A STORAGE AND DISPENSING UNIT FOR BATTERIES OF THE TYPE HAVING AN ELECTRODE PORTION EXTENDING AXIALLY FROM ONE END THEREOF AND COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND STORAGE COMPARTMENTS, EACH OF SAID COMPARTMENTS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, FIRST AND SECOND PAIRS OF OPPOSED WALLS CONNECTED TO DEFINE A BATTERY STORAGE AREA HAVING AN ENTRANCE END AND A DISCHARGE END, THE WALLS OF SAID FIRST PAIR OF WALLS SPACED APART A DISTANCE GREATER THAN THE AXIAL LENGTH OF SAID BATTERIES TO DEFINE AN ENTRANCE OPENING AT SAID ENTRANCE END, FIRST MEANS AT SAID ENTRANCE END EXTENDING GENERALLY NORMAL TO SAID FIRST PAIR OF WALLS INTO SAID ENTRANCE OPENING RESTRICTING THE DIMENSION OF SAID ENTRANCE OPENING PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST PAIR OF WALLS TO LESS THAN THE AXIAL LENGTH OF SAID BATTERIES AND GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID BATTERIES, MEANS INCLUDING OPPOSED PROJECTIONS EXTENDING INTO SAID AREA AND POSITIONED IN RELATIVE VERTICAL STAGGERED RELATIONSHIP ON THE WALLS OF SAID SECOND PAIR OF WALLS TO DEFINE A TORTUOUS PATH THROUGH SAID STORAGE AREA, AND A FIRST PROJECTION ON A FIRST WALL OF SAID FIRST PAIR OF WALLS ARRANGED GENERALLY CENTRALLY OF SAID ENTRANCE OPENING AND SECOND AND THIRD RELATIVELY SPACED PROJECTIONS ON A SECOND WALL OF SAID FIRST PAIR OF WALLS ARRANGED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID FIRST PROJECTION, SAID PROJECTIONS ON SAID FIRST AND SECOND WALLS EXTENDING TOWARD EACH OTHER IN SAID STORAGE AREA AND TERMINATING IN SPACED RELATION A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE AXIAL LENGTH OF SAID BATTERIES SO THAT BATTERIES CAN BE INSERTED IN SAID STORAGE AREA ONLY WITH THE ELECTRODES THEREOF FACING SAID FIRST WALL AND ARRANGED BETWEEN SAID SECOND AND THIRD PROJECTIONS.