Abstract: A battery cable termination includes a plastic housing molded directly over a composite plate in the formation of which a metal tube is first compressed onto the bare strands of a wire cable to form a flat plate, and the tube is again compressed in a forging operation to provide an annular recess at the top and an annular complementary bottom surface for providing a large area contact surface. The housing includes a depending, outwardly flared, integral skirt which sealably contacts a battery case and also sealably contacts the shoulder of a battery terminal stud when the termination is operatively positioned on the stud with a threaded portion of the stud extending through a hole through said annular recess and said complementary bottom surface.

Abstract: A battery cable has a termination at one end for electric connection to the threaded terminal of a storage battery, which termination also includes an upstanding threaded stud for connection to another battery cable or to other auxiliary equipment.

Abstract: A battery cable termination includes a plastic housing incorporating a resilient sealing bead for sealing one termination to another termination which is stacked thereon.

Abstract: A first cable is spliced to an intermediate portion of a second cable by inserting an end of the first cable and a stripped intermediate portion of the second into a metallic tube, then forging the tube and cable portions together, then bending the first cable at a desired angle relative to the second cable, then soldering the cables and tube together, and then molding a plastic cover over the tube and exposed conductive portions of the cables.

Abstract: A terminal of a storage battery has an upstanding boss surrounded by an annular groove and a terminal plate has an embossment which fits against said boss and a resilient sealing being which is compressed into the groove by a bolt which extends through an opening through said embossment into a threaded hole through said boss.

Abstract: Low resistance in-line and end battery cable terminations incorporate a plastic cover which is molded over an apertured lug which fits over the battery stud and which includes a captured nut for attachment to the stud.