Housing for battery terminals

Claim 1

A corrosion-inhibiting enclosure for a battery terminal comprising a lower housing member of plastic material with an entry through the bottom thereof for sealing a battery terminal therethrough including a semicylindrical opening through one end thereof for receiving an insulated electric cable terminating in a cable connector of the bolt-nut-clamp type for clamping said terminal, a cover member of said plastic material having a closure junction with a surrounding overhanging flange for sealing same on said lower housing member including a semicylindrical opening at one end thereof in mating relation to said cable opening in said lower housing member forming a cylindrical cable entry into said enclosure, a straight elongated hinge means of uniform curvalinear crosssectional shape integral with the lower corner of said lower housing member and the lower edge of said cover member with said hinge means a predetermined thickness less than the thickness of said lower housing member and said cover member, said closure junction extending from said opposite ends of said hinge means in an angular direction upward to substantially the center of the opposite end of said enclosure to said openings, and a fitting through said cover means for conducting pressurized grease therethrough for filling the space in said enclosure not occupied by said terminal and said cable and said bolt-nut-clamp type connector.