US1034094A - Charging-machine for coke-ovens or gas-furnaces. - Google Patents

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{Tan STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM FEI CKSIOF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent Patented July 30, 1912.

Application filed March 9, 1911'. Serial nofietsasa To all whom it may concern:

subject of the German Emperor, residing in the city of Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Charging-Machines for Coke- .Uvens oi" Gas-Furnaces, ofwhich the following is aspecification.

The resent invention relates to charging machines for coke ovens or gas furnaces capablgof operating above the battery and.

equipped with mechanism for raising and lowering the ovendoors.

According tothis invention the charging car is so constructed "that tliecar frame or body leaves a free space at either end of the ovens, w iich enables the ascension pipes for the "gases of distillation issuing'from the coking chambers to be placed there. To this end brackets or arms are extended from the upper part of the car ateither side, on which are mounted rollers or drums to ceive the chains or ropes connecting the ovendoors with the operating device provided on the car. The novel operating device earned on the car cons sts malnly ofa system of hand or power driven long1tud1- nally movable rods or bars arrangeddongi tudinally'to the coking chambers ,and pref- 'erably yertically above the discharge openings of the coal compartments of the car: The rods or bars may be operated in different ways, eit'her as illustrated by way of an example in the drawing or, they may be provided with a piston at one end and inclosed in cylinders to which. steam, air or a liquid under pressure is admitted, or they may be provided with teeth in which engages a driving wheel:

In thedrawing, Figure 1 shows a'cross section through a'battery of ovens with the charging car in longitudinal elevation, Fig.

2, is a. plan view of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3' is a part section through the device for operating the oven doors.

Abovethe battery of ovensl are rails 2 on which the charging car 3 is propelled. The car may be hand or power driven. The coal for charging the ovens is contained in compartments 4, at the botto-ni of which are folding doors "or slides 5' for discharge. The car frame or body as will-be seen leaves a free. space at both ends of the oven, where the ascension pipes 6 are placed, which draw olf'the gases evolved in the ovens. At

' parallel to the coking chambers.

the upper art of the car frame on both Be it known that I, WILLIAM FE-IOKS, a p

necting the oven doors 9 with theoperating device. on the car. The device for raising and lowering the oven doors consists of two "longitudinally movable rods 10, arranged at the upper part of the car and on an axis an enlarged scale'in Fig. 3, the right-hand operated by a'sleeve 11 which is provided, with right and left hand thread engaging drive 12 connected to either one of the motors 13. Suitably arranged clutches allow either one of the motors 13 to be used for driving the car or the device for raising and loweringv the oven doors. To prevent closed in a housing 14:.

The action of the apparatus is as fol; lows; The coal compartments 4 of th'ecar, having been filled with coal, the car is run directly over one-of the ovens 1, the chains lowered and hooked to the oven doors 9. The operating device of the doors. is now started in the reversed direction and the oven doors raised. The coke in the .oven may now be discharged in any desired manner. The doors are then lowered, the' chains disconnected and raised again. The covers of the charging holes are now removed and the coal charge dumped into the oven by the folding doors 5. After charging; the oven, the covers for the charging. holes are 'put back in place.

' All operations of the apparatus can be started by simple actuating of levers or equivalent means so that it can be handled by a single man. I claiin:-

1. In combination with a battery of coke ovens, or gas furnaces a charging car capable latter carried on the car,said operating de- (Shown on 5 rod 10, being broken away.) The rods are with similar thread out on the rods.' The 70 the-admittance of dust the rods 10 are inso vice comprising a pair of longitudinally movable rods arranged to simultaneously 'or power operated laterallymovable rods or oars,- substantially as set forth.

'3. The combination with a car for voperating oven doors and arranged to leave spaces on top of the ovens atthe. door ends thereof for accommodation of ascension pipes, of a hoisting mechanism on top of said car comprising longit udinally movable rods, means attached thereto for lifting the doors, guiding means for said lifting means, and means for operating said rods. 7

4. The combination with a battery of coke ovens or gas retorts, of an apparatus for charging the ovens and operating the oven doors comprising a car capable of traversing above the battery, the lower partof said car leaving a free spaceateither end of the ovensand the top ofthe car provided with an extension the ends of which terminate in substantially the same vertical planes as the oven doors lie in, a hoisting device carried on said car, means for connecting said -hoisting device with the doors of an oven, 36

ovens or gas retorts, of an apparatus for 40 operating the oven doors, comprising a car capable of traversing above the battery of ovens and leaving a space at either end thereof, a pair .of longitudinally movable oppositely threaded vrods carried by said car, a correspondingly threaded sleeve in engagement there with, means for holding said sleeve against lateral movementin respect to saidrods, means carried by the car for rotating said sleeve, a housing for said rods,

means for connecting said rods with the doors of an oven, and guide means to change the direction of travel of'aforesaid connecting means between the rods and oven doors,

whereby upon rotation of said sleeve thesaid-rods will separate or approach each other in said housing andcause said connecting means to raise or lower the oven doors.

WILLIAM FEICKS.

WVitnesses:

E. M. LooKwoon, Jr, MiLns C. BENNER.

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