US757469A - Retort coke-oven. - Google Patents

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No. 757,469'. PATBNTBD APR. 19, 1904.`

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A. O.,KLOMAN. RETORT OOKE OVEN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 190.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 19, 1904.. l

PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW C. KLOMAN, OF SAXTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FIFTHTO WILLIAM M. SCOTT, OF SAXTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

lar-:TORT COKE-OVEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,469, dated April 19, 1904.

Application filed May 26, 1903. Serial No. 158,799. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW O. KLOMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saxton, in the county of Bedford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered new and useful Improvements in Retort Coke- Ovens, of which the following is a specification. Y

In the accompanying drawings,which make part of this specification, Figure I is a vertical section taken centrally longitudinally of one of a battery of retort coke-ovens constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. II, a vertical section taken transversely through one oven and a half, the section being on the line II II of Fig. I; Fig. III, a horizontal section on the line III III of Fig. II, and Fig. IV a horizontal section onthe line IV IV of Figs. I and II.

My invention relates to retort coke-ovens, and the objects thereof concern the means for discharging the coke from the ovens at the only to produce a very` large heating eect with the quantity of gas consumed, but also to allow the battery of ovens to be indenitelyl extended without injury to or change in the existing structure.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 designates the supporting walls or foundations, which run transversely of the oven-battery, but longitudinally under the walls 2 of the ovenchambers 3. A number of these chambers 3 are made near together in a parallel relation, constituting what is called a battery of ovens, the walls 2 separating adjacent cham# II, and provided with charging-holes 4 in their tops, through which the coal or material to be coked is charged. The material is brought opposite the charging-holes 4 by means of cars(not shown,) which run on the track 5, extendinglongitudinally of the battery of ovens and between the rows of the charging-holes. t

The ends of the ovens or chambers 3 have `into vertical iiues 16 in the walls 2. Opposite hinged doors 6, in each of which, near thetop thereof, is a small hinged door 7.

At each side of the battery is a track or rail 8, on which the wheels 9 of a hanging platform 10 travels. This platform has on its under side two wheels 11, which runv on a trackconsisting of a series of ribs 12, carried by the oven-walls 2, and of the ribs 13, carried by the doors 6, the ribs 12 being slightly below the ribs 13 to permit the former to pass the latter when the doors 6 are opened. The wheel 11 is'wide enough to run on both series of ribs.V

The ovens 3 have a series of eXit-ports 14 for the escape of the gases evolved during the coking operation. The exit-ports 14 lead by way of short horizontal iiues 15 downwardly the bottom ofthe oven the lines 16 connect with horizontalV iiues 17, which run through the oven-bottom transversely and connect at the center of the wall 2 opposite the wall 2 in which the iues 16 are with the uptake-fines 18, which open at their tops just above the top line of the oven-chambers into the transverse flues'19, which are crossed centrally by the longitudinal oftake-iiue 20, which conveys the spent gases to a chimney or other place. 75

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- same direction-that is, in Figs. II and III the gases move .rto the left in the oven-bottoms and in Fig. IV towardv the top of the sheet. It will also be noted that the downtake-iiues 16 of one oven lie in the same wall 2 as the uptake-fines 18 `of the adjoining oven. The iiues 16 and 18 in each wall 2 stand in a straight line and alternate, the flues 16 communicating immediately with iues 18 in wall 2 on one side of said flue 16 and the fines 18 in said lastnamed wall receiving gases from iues 16 in wall 2 on the other side of the first-named iues 16. It will therefore be seen that the flues 18 in the wall toward the bottom of Fig. IV and the flues 18 and 21 at the righthand side of F-igs. II and III have no functions, but are ready to be used when an additional oven is placed at the bottom of Fig. IV or at the right of Figs. II and III.

The bottom 23 of each oven or chamber 3 is composed of two sections 24 and 25, hinged together near the middle on the pivot or hingepin 26 and containing the middle portion ofl the iiues 17 The section 24 is pivoted on the fixed pivot or pin 27, while the section 25 is supported centrally transversely on wheels 28 on tracks 29 consisting of the upturned flanges of plates 30, held between the walls 1 and 2, as shown in Fig. II.

Pivotally secured to pendent lug 31 on the section 24 is the piston-rod 32, secured to a piston (not shown) in the cylinder 33, pivoted at 34 to a stationary support 35.

Between the walls 1 of the several ovens are the two downwardly and outwardly inclined chutes 36 and 37, with which the free ends of the sections 24 and 25 register when the bottom 23 is in the position shown in dotted lines.

The bottom sections may be operated by other means or by the same means arranged diiferently, and other parts of the oven may be changed and still come within the scope of my invention.

The operation is as follows: Coal is charged through the holes 4 and leveled by a man standing on a platform 10 opposite each door 7, through which he operates a leveling-tool. The gases driven off from the coal pass out of the ovens 3 through the ports 14, iiues 15, 16, 17, and 18, where they receive a supply of air from the lines 21. The burning gas passes up iiue 18 into the common iues 19 and thence into the main oftakediue 20 and the chimney. (Not shown.) If desired, the air can be admitted through the small doors 7, so as to partially supply the gases with oxygen before they pass into the fines 18.' When the coking is completed, the doors 6 are opened and the piston-rod is forced up in an obvious manner, causing the sections 24 and 25 of the ovenbottom 23 to become flexed upwardly at its center, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. I. This lifts the cake of coke near its central portion, leaving its end portions unsupported. The weight of the end portions causes the cake to breaky at the center, one end of the cake going down chute 36 and the other down chute 37.. The flexing of the bottom 23 causes the wheels 28 to travel on the tracks 29 to the position shown in dotted lines on Fig. I. As

soon as the coke has been discharged a reverse movement of the piston-rod 32 restores the bottom to its normal horizontal position. The doors 6 are then closed, andA the oven is ready to he charged again preliminarily to another coking operation.

It is obvious that my invention is adapted for the by-product process by simply conducting off the expelled gases and admitting the purified gases into the flues 16, port 14 being bricked up. j

Having described my invention, I claimm 1. In a retort coke-oven, a horizontal fluecontaining bottom pivotally mounted, and means for swinging the same into an inclined position.

2. In a retort coke-oven, a horizontal liuccontaining bottom capable of being flexed, and means for flexing the same.

3. In a retort coke-oven, a horizontal fluecontaining bottom composed of pivotally-connected sections, and means for causing the pivoted portion to assume a higher position than the end portions, whereby a fulcrum is formed for breaking apart the cake of coke and inclined beds are provided for the separated parts of the cake.

4. In a retort coke-oven, a horizontal bottom, composed of pivotally-connected sections, and means for elevating the pivoted portion of the same, whereby a fulcrum is formed for breaking apart the cake of coke and inclined beds are provided for the separated parts of the cake.y

5. In a retort coke-oven, a horizontal bottom composed of sections hinged together, one section having a fixed pivot and the other having a support capable of travelwhen the sections are flexed.

- 6. In a retort coke-oven, a horizontal bottom, composed of sections hinged together, one section having wheels, and a track on which said wheels travel when the sections are flexed.

7. In a retort coke-oven, a movable bottom for the same, containing therein a portion of the oven-fines.

8. In a retort coke-oven, a series of parallel ovens, walls common to each two adjoining IOO IIO

ovens, and a series of uptake and downtake flues in each wall, the uptake receiving gases given off from one oven and the downtakes receiving gases given off from the other oven.

neeted to the heating-fines of the oven on one Signed at Altoona, Pennsylvania, this 21st side of th Wall and th?l other` to thosJ1 of tle day of May, 1903.

oven ont eother si et ereof, one of t e Wal s at one end of the series having both sets of ANDREW C' KLO-MAN' ues whereby an additional oven may be built Witnesses: adjoining said Wall Without any change in said J. AUSTIN SULLIVAN, Wall. IsAIAH SCHEELINE.

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