The Automobile Storage Battery

The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair is by Otto A. Witte. The book is described as a practical book for the repairman that gives in nontechnical language the theory, construction, operation, manufacture, maintenance, and repair of the lead-acid battery used on the automobile. The description adds that the book describes at length all subjects which help the repairman build up a successful battery repair business and also contains sections on radio and farm lighting batteries.

Under the heading Manufacture of Storage Batteries, a starting and lighting battery consists of the following principal parts: plates, separators, electrolyte, jars, covers, cell connectors and terminals, and a case. Of the two general types of battery plates, Faure and Plante, the Faure, or pasted type, is universally used on automobiles. Under normal conditions the initial charge will require approximately 80 hours to complete, and the final gravity will be approximately 1.250.