US579160A - Combined leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens - Google Patents

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J. A. MONTGOMERY. COMBINED LEVELER AND SWEEPER FOR 00KB OVENS. No. 579.160.

Patented Mar. 23, 1897.

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JOHN A. MONTGOMERY, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

COMBINED LEVELER AND SWEEPER FOR COKE-OVENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,160, dated March 23, 1 897.

Application filed August 17, 1895. erial No. 559,661. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. MONTGOMERY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefierson and State of Alabama,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Leveler and Sweeper for Coke-Ovens; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in a combined leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, and has for its object to quickly level the coal therein and after the coal has been converted into coke and the coke removed to thoroughly sweep and clean the oven, and also to provide a machine which is simple and inexpensive in construction and very effective in operation.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, as more fully hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of referencedesignate like parts in all the views, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a coke-oven, showing a side elevation of my improved leveler and sweeper therein, the leveler being applied in full lines and the sweeper applied as shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a top plan view with the leveler applied; Fig. 3, a detail front view, partly in section, of the sweeper and its operating mechanism and the locking-bolt by which the sweeper is adjusted and held at different composed of hollow tubes or pipes at 5, made preferably plain on its under side for the purpose of adapting it to be readily manipulated on a suitable support situated in the door of the coke-oven. At one end these pipes terminate in a handle 0, by means of which the apparatus is manipulated in any desired direction, and at the opposite end terminate in a hollow slotted elbow d.

e is a sprocket-wheel which is mounted on the shaft f and the cogs of which extendinto the slot in the elbow d, and e is a sprocketwheel mounted on the drive-shaft f.

g g are bearings for the sprocketwheels c 6, respectively.

h is an endless sprocket-chain which runs inside the pipes a b (for the purpose of keeping it from being clogged with dirt, the.) and over the sprocket-wheels.

A series of grooved antifriction-rollers i are mounted at intervals in the journalsj,formed by cutting the pipes and bending the out portions outward.

It is a crank-arm mounted on the end of the drive-shaft f.

Z is a platform mounted on the pipes a b.

M is a suitable engine mounted on said platform, such, for instance, as a hydraulic, steam, electric, or other engine.

"a is the drive-rod of the engine, which is connected to a pin 0 on the crank-arm 70.

p is a flexible feedwvater pipe for the engine.

C is the leveler, which is provided with a shaft q, having a socket g and set-screw g at its upper end, by which it is attached to the shaft f of the apparatus.

g are scrapers, and g are rakes attached to the hub g at the lower end of shaft q.

The leveler is shown in the drawings with both scrapers and rakes; but when desired the rakes may be dispensed with and all scrapers used or the scrapers dispensed with and all rakes used.

D is the sweeper, provided with a shaft q", connected to the shaft f by means of a double screw-threaded nut Q7.

g is a bevel gear-wheel on the lower end of shaft q.

g is a hub or sleeve provided with circular collars (1 and groove Q12 are holes in the slot q.

(1 are arms depending from a circular ring which rotates in the groove and is held at any desired point by means of a spring pressed pin engaging the holes Q12.

g is a chain or rope for operating springpin (115.

is a circular broom having a shaft q", mounted in bearings (1 on the lower end of the arms (1 is a bevel gear-wheel adapted to engage the bevel-gear g and be operated thereby.

Q20 are wheels located on the extreme lower end of the arms Q13, on which the sweeper is supported and moved.

E is an antifriction-roller which extends across and is journaled at each end in the sides of the door-frame, on which the apparatus rests and travels when the leveler is used.

The apparatus may be operated in any direction and the sweeper turned to any angle at the will of the operator.

The operation is as follows: The coke-leveler is inserted through the door of the oven and rests and travels on the antifriction-roller E, which extends across and is removably journaled at each end in the door-frame. The leveler commences to work on the side of .the cone-shaped pile of coal, and by its circular motion quickly levels the coal to a uniform level, as shown by the dotted line 1 in Fig. 1. After the coal has been leveled the roller E is removed and the apparatus with drawn from the oven. The coal is then converted into coke and the coke removed by any suitable means. The sweeper is then attached and the apparatus again inserted in the oven and the sweeper worked around, as shown at 50, until the small coke and ashes have been thrown to the center. Then the sweeper is changed to the right angle, as shown at 00, Fig. 4, and the apparatus withdrawn from the oven, sweeping and carrying the material with it through the door to any suitable receptacle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having a plain under surface, and provided on one end with suitable motive power, and on the opposite end with a depending shaft adapted to carry a leveler or sweeper thereon, and means for communicating motion from said motive power to said shaft, substantially as described.

2. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having a plain under surface and provided on one end with suitable motive power, and on the opposite end with a depending shaft adapted to receive a leveler said motive power to said shaft, substantially as described.

3. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having a plain under surface and composed of hollow tubes or pipes,provided on one end with suitable motive power, and on the opposite end with a depending shaft adapted to receive a leveler to level the coke in the oven, and a sweeper to sweep out the oven after the coal has been converted into coke and removed therefrom, and means for communicating motion from said motive power to said shaft, substantially as described.

4:. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having a plain under surface, and composed of hollow tubes or pipes provided with a series of antifrictionrollers, sprocket-wheels mounted on shafts at opposite ends thereof, and the sprocket-chain adapted to run inside of hollow tubes and over the sprocket-wheels and antifrictionrollers, one of said shafts connected to asuitable motive power by which it is driven, and the other shaft depending from said frame, and adapted to receive a leveler to level the coal in the oven, and a sweeper to sweep out the oven after the coal has been converted into coke and removed therefrom, substantially as described.

5. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having a plain under surface, and provided on one end with suitable motive power, and on the opposite end with a depending shaft, the leveler mounted thereon and means for communicating motion from said motive power to said depending shaft, substantially as described.

6. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having suitable motive power on one end thereof, and the opposite end provided with a depending shaft, the sweeper mounted thereon, means for communicating motion from said motive power to said shaft, and means for setting said sweeper at different angles, substantially as described.

7. In a portable leveler and sweeper for coke-ovens, the frame having suitable motive power on one end thereof, and the opposite end provided with a depending shaft, the sweeper mounted thereon, means for communicating motion from said motive power to said depending shaft and thereby operating the sweeper, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J OI-IN A. MONTGOMERY.

l/Vitnessesz J 0s. H. BLACKWOOD, H. P. DOOLITTLE.

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