Abstract: Charging apparatus is provided for charging preheated coal into a battery of coke oven chambers from a bunker above the battery which has sufficient capacity to contain enough coal to charge at least one oven chamber. Each oven chamber has a plurality of charging holes in the roof and the charging holes of the several chambers are arranged in rows extending longitudinally of the battery. A vibratory conveyor is associated with each row of charging holes for selectively delivering coal to the holes, and coal is supplied from the bunker to each conveyor through a measuring chamber which holds a predetermined amount of coal and delivers exactly the right amount to the conveyor for charging one oven chamber.

Abstract: At the machine side of a coke oven, a leveling rod is moved into a coke oven chamber through an opening surrounded by a frame on a removable oven door. A movable hood is positioned to define a horizontal extension to the opening in the coke oven door to thereby enclose a portion of the leveling rod during its movement into the oven chamber. A support member within the hood is arranged below the lower edge of the frame that surrounds the opening in the door. Bracket plates are carried by the support member such that the leveling rod moves upon the top surface of the uppermost plate. A removable bolt is employed to secure the bracket plates to the support member. The number of bracket plates used determines the elevation at which the leveling rod moves into the oven chamber. An extension insert is removably attached to the roof of the hood above the leveling rod.

Abstract: An enclosure in the form of a shed is disposed to extend along the entire length of the battery of ovens at the coke discharge side thereof. The shed roof rises from the top of the ovens to a shed wall spaced outwardly from the ovens beyond a track for a quench car. The shed wall essentially supports the weight of the shed roof in a cantilever fashion. Within the shed a baffle plate, carried by the shed wall, extends in an upward direction toward the battery of coke ovens. A conveyor is carried by the shed wall along its length for conveying solid particles of coke dropping from the baffle plate onto the conveyor. The shed further includes a pipe for extracting smoke within the shed which occurs when hot coke is pressed out of an oven chamber. The smoke extraction pipe is carried in one embodiment by the shed roof vertically above the baffle plate, in a second embodiment, by the shed wall above the upper end of the baffle plate and in a third embodiment by the shed wall at the lower end of the baffle plate.