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US 4,123,334 AGranted
Reciprocating coke guide extension
AssigneeKoppers Company, Inc.
InventorWilliam G. Emery
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Abstract
In a system wherein coke is ejected from a horizontal coke oven into a one-spot coke quenching car, a reciprocating coke guide extension which serves to spread the ejected coke more evenly throughout the one-spot quenching car, thus allowing more coke to be accumulated in the one-spot quenching car before it is required to be moved. The apparatus presents a means by which the falling coke column is directed initially to the remote side of the car, away from the coke oven, and at varying oblique angles from the central axis of the horizontal coke oven, concluding the loading operation by directing the coke to a point immediately below the exit from the coke oven.
Claims12
A reciprocating coke guide extension, for use in conjunction with a horizontal coke oven, comprising:
- (a) a coke guide aligned, when in use, with said coke oven, further comprising:
- (i) a rectangular vertical right wall;
- (ii) a rectangular vertical left wall;
- (iii) a rectangular horizontal floor connected, at its side edges, to the lower edges of said right wall and said left wall in the form of a channel;
- (b) a vertical right wing the vertical rear edge of which is positioned adjacent to the vertical front edge of said right wall, being the edge of said right wall which is remote from said coke oven;
- (c) means for pivotally connecting said front edge of said right wall to said read edge of said right wing;
- (d) a vertical left wing the vertical rear edge of which is positioned adjacent to the vertical front edge of said left wall, being the edge of said right wall which is remote from said coke oven;
- (e) means for pivotally connecting said front edge of said left wall to said rear edge of said left wing;
- (f) means for pivoting said right wing;
- (g) means for pivoting said left wing;
- (h) a floor extension coextensively positioned to the front edge of said floor, being the edge of said floor remote from said coke oven, said floor extension being as wide as the summation of the lengths of said right wing and said left wing and the width of said floor, said floor extension being reciprocatingly mounted to extend beyond and retract from said front edge of said floor;
- (i) means to linearly guide the motion of said floor extension;
- (j) means to reciprocate said floor extension in a linear direction from a retracted position where the leading edge of said floor is adjacent to said front edge of said floor to an extended position where the trailing edge of said floor extension is adjacent to said front edge of said floor.
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A reciprocating coke guide extension, mounted on a coke guide car, for use in conjunction with a horizontal coke oven, comprising:
- (a) a coke guide aligned, when in use, with said coke oven, further comprising:
- (i) a rectangular vertical right wall;
- (ii) a rectangular vertical left wall;
- (iii) a rectangular horizontal floor connected, at its side edges, to the lower edges of said right wall and said left wall in the form of a channel;
- (b) a vertical right wing, less in vertical height than said right wall, the horizontal width of said right wing being between three feet and five feet, the vertical rear edge of which is positioned adjacent to the vertical front edge of said right wall, being the edge of said right wall which is remote from said coke oven;
- (c) a vertical left wing, equal in vertical height and horizontal width to said right wing, the vertical rear edge of which is positioned adjacent to the vertical front edge of said left wall, being the edge of said left wall which is remote from said coke oven;
- (d) a plurality of hinges, divided into two sets of one or more of said hinges in each set, each set of said hinges, respectively, pivotally connecting said right wing to said right wall and said left wing to said left wall, the first set of hinges positioned to form a common pivotal axis at the juncture formed by said front edge of said right wall with said rear edge of said right wing, the second set of said hinges positioned to form a common pivotal axis at the juncture formed by said front edge of said left wall with said read edge of said left wing;
- (e) a plurality of double acting hydraulic wing cylinders arranged in two sets of one or more of said wing cylinders in each set, the first set of said wing cylinders positioned proximately adjacent to said right wall, exterior to said coke guide, the second set of said wing cylinders positioned proximately adjacent to said left wall, exterior to said coke guide;
- (f) a plurality of wing cylinder extensions, each mounted within each of said wing cylinders, said wing cylinder extensions which are mounted within said first set of said wing cylinders being pivotally connected to said right wing, said wing cylinder extensions which are mounted within said second set of said wing cylinders being pivotally connected to said left wing;
- (g) a pair of stanchions, one each for each said set of wing cylinders, each fixed at its base to sad coke guide car, the first said stanchion positioned beneath said first set of said wing cylinders and pivotally connected thereto, the second said stanchion positioned beneath said second set of said wing cylinders and pivotally connected thereto;
- (h) a floor extension coextensively positioned to the edge of said floor, being the edge of said floor remote from said coke oven, said floor extension being as wide as the summation of the lengths of said right wing and said left wing and the width of said floor, said floor extension being reciprocatingly mounted to extend beyond and retract from said front edge of said floor, said floor extension, when fully extended being of sufficient length to protrude beyond said front edge of said floor a distance of from 3 to 5 feet;
- (i) a pair of channels, oppositely positioned each to the other but parallel to each other, fitted about each side edge of said floor extension, substantially connecting said floor extension at all positions of reciprocation of said floor extension, said channels being fixed to said coke guide car;
- (j) a plurality of horizontally positioned double acting hydraulic floor cylinders fixed, parallel to each other, to said coke guide car an aligned with the linear direction of movement of said floor extension;
- (k) a plurality of cylinder rods, each mounted within one of said cylinders, the remote ends of said cylinder rods being connected to the leading edge of said floor extension.
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