Abstract: A coke guide machine includes a shuttle car carried by rails on a coke bench for a battery of coke ovens. Movable along the shuttle car is a carriage having two support stations that are rotatable about a common vertical axis. The support stations include scissor arms that form extendible support devices, one of which carries a handling device for a coke oven door and the other carries a device adapted to clean exposed sealing surfaces of an emptied coking chamber. The carriage also supports a coke guide including an extendible section to bridge an open passageway wherein an inspection car moves along the coke bench between the shuttle car and the coke ovens. A door cleaning machine is positioned in a stationary manner on the shuttle car to clean a coke oven door carried to it by the door handling device after 180.degree.

Abstract: A battery of horizontal coke ovens having intermediate walls that divide the ovens into units each consisting of 10-20 oven chambers for the purpose of receiving coal from a charging car displaceable above each unit of oven chambers. The charging car includes a plurality of bins each having an outlet for alignment with one of a plurality of charging holes provided in the roof for each oven chamber. The charging car is transversed along a frame supported by vertical beams extending from the intermediate walls. A conveyor belt is employed to transport coal from a tower to the charging car.

Abstract: In a coke oven, a coke discharge opening communicating with the coking chamber is closed by a door which carries an angularly-shaped packing strip having an extended edge surface for engaging a door frame. The packing strip is adjustably supported by clamping plates attached to the door. The extended edge surface of the packing strip is resiliently urged at spaced locations about the periphery of the door by means of a spring-biased plunger carried by guide plates that are adjustably positioned on the door. The disclosure additionally provides stop plates at opposite sides of the door frame for engagement with adjustable bolts supported by the door for adjustably locating the door relative to the door frame.