Coke oven wall with a plurality of flue cavities

A coke oven wall (4) which is constructed from a plurality of bricks (38,42,46,120) laid so as to define first and second wall faces (40,44), and a plurality of flue cavities (14) extending therein the wall including a plurality of alternating first and second courses (C) and wherein the first and second courses are defined by first, second and third bricks (38,42,120) and wherein:

• each first brick includes a first body portion (48) and an inwardly projecting first leg which has a first inner end face (50);
• each second brick includes a second body portion (64) and an inwardly projecting second leg (66) which has a second end face, the length of the second leg being shorter than the length of the first leg;
• and
• each third brick comprises a flue wall brick (46,120) having a third body portion which has third and fourth end faces;
• and wherein each first course includes:
• a plurality of the first bricks laid side by side with the body portions thereof defining part of the first wall face;
• a plurality of the second bricks laid side by side with body portions thereof defining part of the second wall face;
• and
• a plurality of the third bricks;
• and wherein
• each of the third body portions is interposed between opposed pairs of first and second legs with its third and fourth end faces abutting the first and second end faces respectively whereby the first and second body portions define part of the first and second wall faces respectively;
• and
• wherein each second course is the same as the first course except that the positions of the first and second bricks are reversed so that body portions of the first and second bricks in the second course define parts of the second and first wall faces respectively.