Abstract: A battery mounting device retaining a battery both longitudinally and laterally which comprises a battery tray, a battery retainer, and a member for rigidly holding the battery in place by rigidly and adjustably holding the retainer and battery in place in relationship to the battery tray.

Abstract: A device for removing and inserting traction drive batteries in lift trucks, the device being supported upon the floor aside the lift truck and engageable with a body portion thereof for maintaining a fixed position in relation to the truck during operation of the device. A handle bar lever arm is pivoted from the base and connectible by means of a ratchet bar to a side of the battery for extracting or inserting the battery from or in a truck compartment by a succession of movements in which the lever arm is successively adjusted about its base pivot to engage different ones of a plurality of longitudinally spaced notches in the ratchet bar for moving the battery in or out of the compartment.

Abstract: For a motor vehicle suspension of the type including dual leaf spring assemblies and a connecting rocker arm, a pair of elongated generally coextensive downwardly arched leaf springs in laminar coactive load-supporting relation include a front end attachment eye on the upper of the springs and a fail-safe terminal portion on the lower of the springs substantially enveloping the eye. The rear end portions of the springs have nested upwardly arched load supporting portions for engagement with the rocker arm. In non-loaded and normally loaded conditions of the associated vehicle the leaf springs provide constant rate spring action, and when excessive suspension random loads must be supported supplementary compression spring means carried by the leaf springs engage the vehicle frame with progressively increasing spring rate and avoid overstressing the leaf springs.