Patents Assigned to Peabody Coal Company, Inc.
  • Apparatus for producing coke from fine and coarse coal
    Patent number: 4314887
    Abstract: Adjacent alternating rows of relatively coarse and fine coal are deposited onto a horizontal moving grate running through a coking furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Peabody Coal Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack R. Haley, Jimmy B. Smith, Vaughn Mansfield
  • Advance method and apparatus for mining
    Patent number: 4173373
    Abstract: A mine roof-bolter machine having an extensible conveyor running therethrough operates behind a continuous miner machine. As the continuous miner advances, the roof-bolter advances from position-to-position while installing roof bolts and plates, and the extensible conveyor gives and takes the slack between the continuous miner and the roof bolter and feeds mined material to a surge car behind the roof bolter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1979
    Assignee: Peabody Coal Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. L. Campbell, Daniel J. Moynihan