Coal charging car for charging chambers in a coke-oven battery

A coal charging car for a coke-oven battery, comprising:

• a chassis displaceable along a path for successively positioning said car at successive charging holes of chambers of said coke-oven battery;
• a bin on said chassis having a funnel-shaped outlet for coal to be discharged into said chambers;
• a horizontal screw-type feeder below said bin on said chassis having a housing open upwardly to receive coal from said outlet, said housing being guided on said chassis for horizontal movement relative to said chassis, said housing having an outlet nozzle alignable with said holes for discharging coal into said holes;
• a telescoping pipe connected to said outlet nozzle for bridging between said outlet nozzle and the respective charging hole;
• a lid-lifting device on said chassis for lifting lids of said charging holes and replacing lids on said charging holes, said lid lifting device being mounted for movement independent of the horizontal movement of said feeder housing;
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• positioning means on said chassis engaged with said housing for shifting said feeder from a starting position wherein the outlet nozzle is offset to a side of a selected charging hole into a charging position wherein said outlet nozzle is substantially aligned with said selected charging hole without altering a position of said chassis with respect to said selected charging hole.