Abstract: A process and apparatus for feeding scrap tires into a reactor for the recovery of carbonaceous raw materials. The process comprises suspending the tires in a melt chamber having hot gases flowing therethrough at between 250.degree. F and 600.degree. F, allowing the hot gases to flow past the tires, melting the carbonaceous material therein, the melted material being fed into a reactor tube which converts the material to carbonaceous raw materials. The non-meltable portions of the scrap tires, such as metal beads or belted reinforcement, are separated in the melt chamber from the melted scrap tires.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving incandescent coke from respective coke ovens of a horizontally arranged battery of coke ovens, comprises a wheeled carriage which is adapted to move backwardly and forwardly along the battery of coke ovens. A coke cake receiving device is mounted on said carriage and includes a hood portion which is adapted to be aligned with each of the coke ovens upon movement of the carriage to the particular coke oven to be discharged and which also includes means for separating contaminants from the gases which are generated from the coke and for discharging purified gases. The coke hood portion has an openable and closable lateral door for receiving the irridescent coke from the associated oven and for closing the hood thereafter. The coke entering the hood is received by a tank arranged below the hood.

Abstract: A carriage movable along the coke side of a coke oven battery and carrying a coke guide, a door extractor, a frame cleaner and a door cleaner. These elements can be manipulated on the carriage so as to effect door extraction, coke pushing, door cleaning and frame cleaning in a minimum amount of time and without the necessity for moving the carriage itself along the coke oven battery while servicing any one coke oven chamber.

Abstract: The subject development is directed to an apparatus for feeding pulverized coal into a coal gasifier operating at relatively high pressures and elevated temperatures. This apparatus is a rotary piston feeder which comprises a circular casing having a coal loading opening therein diametrically opposed from a coal discharge and contains a rotatable discoid rotor having a cylinder in which a reciprocateable piston is disposed. The reciprocation of the piston within the cylinder is provided by a stationary conjugate cam arrangement whereby the pulverized coal from a coal hopper at atmospheric pressure can be introduced into the cylinder cavity and then discharged therefrom into the high-pressure gasifier without the loss of high pressure gases from within the latter.

Abstract: A fluidized bed of material retained in a vessel receives a high velocity gas stream through a venturi orifice and passage to assist in the agglomeration of ash particles. The particles form a semi-fixed bed within the passage upstream from the venturi orifice. The particular dimensions of the semi-fixed bed are dependent, in part, upon the orifice size of the venturi. An iris valve defining the orifice permits adjustment of the cross-sectional area of the orifice thereby controls the velocity of the gas stream through the venturi.

Abstract: A hopper for predried fine coal for use with a coke oven battery or a plurality of batteries arranged in a row, comprises a wheeled support truck which is adapted to be moved along over the top of the oven batteries. A fine coal hopper is mounted on the truck and it includes a bottom discharge to facilitate discharging of the fine coal therethrough into the individual batteries. An inert gas system is connected to the fine coal hopper and it includes an inert gas distributor located alongside the hopper on the truck, and includes nozzles directed at a plurality of locations around the periphery and along the height of the fine coal hopper into the hopper and the fine coal contained therein.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the production of coke from coal by a dry distillation operation wherein the coking plant is provided with a computer unit that receives signals from the coal leveling mechanism, the door mechanism, the quenching car mechanism, and a signal value for the time required to achieve the coking of the coal. The computer prevents the opening of any given coking chamber until the minimum coking time has lapsed and the opening of the chamber and discharging and quenching of the coke is correlated to the actual operating conditions rushing at that time. If desired, the charging and emptying operations may be carried out on a completely automatic basis.

Abstract: Coal is first fed into the oven chamber through a plurality of first filling openings until the bases of the resultant cone-shaped charges are approximately in contact. Thereafter, coal is fed into a plurality of second filling openings positioned between adjacent first filling openings. The above operations are repeated until the oven chamber is filled. The coarser coal is thus distributed in a plurality of diagonal layers in the oven chamber. Filling gas is removed from the oven chamber during feeding through filling openings which are not being employed for feeding.

Abstract: A circular traveling grate machine is disclosed, which is particularly suitable for educting oil from oil shale. The machine includes generally circular inner and outer walls mounted for movement along a trackway and which carry a plurality of burden conveying pallets, hinged to the outer wall and releasably connected to the inner wall. As each pallet approaches and enters a burden discharge station, the connection between the pallet and the inner wall is released. The pallet is then guided downwardly to a discharge position by a piston and cylinder as each pallet is pivoted on its hinge under the influence of gravity. Each lowered pallet is raised by a piston and cylinder and latched in a burden carrying position to the inner wall. The pallets and walls are supported for rotation along the trackway by water cooled supporting grid to minimize differential expansion and contraction of component parts of the machine as they are subjected to differential temperatures.

Abstract: An apparatus for arresting the generation of dust from a coke dry quenching station comprising a dust collecting hood mounted on a traveling crane for transferring to the coke dry quenching station a coke bucket loaded with coke discharged from a coke oven so that the upper surface and the outer side wall of the bucket are enclosed by the dust collecting hood when the bucket is suspended from the crane, a fixed hood permanently arranged above the coke charging hole in the top of the quenching station in such a manner that the upper edge portion of the fixed hood is located adjacent to the lower edge portion of the dust collecting hood to form a practically continued hood, a suction duct attached to the fixed hood at its one end and connected to a dust collector at its other end, a movable chute disposed below the fixed hood so that it alternately changes positions with a lid which closes the coke charging hole of the quenching station, and a flange portion formed on the lower edge portion of the chute and ada

Abstract: A furnace for thermal processing of lump solid fuel, comprising a body accommodating a semicoking zone, zones for gasifying semicoke and for cooling waste solid material and chambers adapted for feeding gas into said zones and discharging a vapor-gas mixture therefrom, said zones and chambers being arranged in succession along the height of the furnace body. The furnace is furnished with an unloading device for discharging solid waste material, said device being located in the bottom part of the furnace body and constituting a hopper with a water seal having a cylindrical bottom passing into a sloping trough. Mounted above the cylindrical portion of the bottom is a sector rocking-type pusher and above the sloping trough - a mechanical shovel associated with the sector pusher in such a manner that a working stroke of the sector pusher corresponds to an idle stroke of the mechanical shovel.

Abstract: A removable insert is placed in the collar of larry hoppers to restrict the flowing coal to a column having a dimension less than the interior width of the coking chamber and charging hole to provide space for exhausting charging gases.

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: The control system includes a controller and a clocking circuit along with a computer for each one of the coke oven chambers. A first control signal is responsive to the occurrence of charging coal into a given oven chamber and starts the clock. A second control signal is responsive to the pushing of coke from the oven chamber and stops the clock. When the duration of the coking time for a given oven chamber exceeds a predetermined coking time, the controller provides a signal for operating valves to terminate the flow of combustion gases into heating flues at the sides of that coke oven chamber. In the system, the computer updates coking time and establishes from time-to-time from data fed to it, the thermal state of each heating flue in the battery.

Abstract: A charging car supports a plurality of hoppers in a manner such that two hoppers for supplying coal to adjacent charging holes are supported one after the other in a consecutive relationship along a line which is generally parallel to movement by the charging car. A conveyor conducts coal from each hopper to a telescopic charging tube which communicates with the charging hole in the roof of a coking chamber. Skirt-like walls enclose the sides of the spaces containing two of the hoppers to conduct smoke and other gases upwardly toward a roof which is supported by stanchions at each side of the battery of coke ovens. In one embodiment, two roof sections extend from the sides of a battery of coke ovens toward the center thereof. Gas-conducting mains receive gases via outlet pipes having control valves from the spaces beneath the roofs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for disposal of rubber wastes is provided wherein rubber wastes such as scrap tires are dry-distilled in a vertical dry distillation retort of an internal heating type having a rotary discharge chute with a water seal, valuable substances contained in the rubber wastes, such as carbon black and oil, are effectively recovered and dry-distilled gas is used as a heat source for the dry distillation of the rubber wastes.

Abstract: A device for magnetic lifting and removal of the feed opening cover of a coking chamber oven from the charging region of said oven comprises a magnet carried by a gripping unit and operatively connected with a crank drive for rotating said cover back and forth in said gripping unit, said magnet further being operatively connected with a displaceable slide means through the intermediary of a guide rail for guiding the movement of the slide means, the rail having horizontal and vertical branches, actuation of a drive means for said slide means first causes lifting of said cover and then lateral displacement of said slide means with said cover.

Abstract: A coke quencher car apparatus comprises a receptacle that is similar to a standard quencher car, but having one internal baffle forming coke compartments, and a frame at each end thereof on which is supported metal curtain material. Each curtain is stretchable to cover one of the coke compartments during and after the pushing of coke is completed. The quencher car is connected to a traction car carrying equipment to remove and clean gases arising from the pushed coke in the quencher car and to move the quenching car.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for processing coal and like material, wherein the material is converted by heat into plastic-like condition and then supplied to a pressurized receiver such as a coal gasification reactor or a synthesis gas generator.

Abstract: Lifting apparatus which enables the lid of, for example a coke oven, to be removed during charging and then replaced has engagement means for the lid carried at the end of an arm. The arm is able to be raised and lowered and to be swung through an arc. The engagement means hook onto the lid or other object to be removed or replaced and the engagement means can oscillate at the end of the arm.

Abstract: A charging machine of the kind comprising a structure adapted to extend transversely of a coke oven battery on the roof thereof for movement longitudinally of the battery to overlie any selected oven chamber and supporting a number of hoppers adapted to be filled with coking coal, each such hopper having means for connecting the base thereof with an aperture in the roof of an oven chamber for transfer of coking coal from the hopper to the oven chamber, wherein said means for connecting the base of each hopper with an aperture in the roof of an oven chamber comprises a downwardly directed telescopically extendible sleeve, characterized by the provision of an annular seal outwardly spaced from and surrounding the lower end of said sleeve and adapted to engage with the oven roof surrounding an aperture in an oven chamber on lowering of said sleeve, there being gas tight resilient means connecting said seal with said sleeve, and arranged to urge the seal downwardly into engagement with the roof of the oven chambe

Abstract: A plurality of coke oven chambers is provided with respective filling inlets arranged in a row. A coal conveyor arrangement is located above such row and extends in the direction of the row. The coal conveyor arrangement is provided with a plurality of outlet units spaced from each other along the length of the row. A filling arrangement is operative for conveying coal from the outlet units to the filling inlets. The filling arrangement comprises a hopper movable along the length of the row of filling inlets and provided with a plurality of inlet units arranged to successively register with the outlet units and provided with at least one outlet unit communicating inside the hopper with the inlet units and arranged to register with successive ones of the filling inlets.

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: A furnace has a normally closed filling inlet. There is provided an arrangement for opening the filling inlet, then filling the interior of the furnace with a charge, and then reclosing the inlet, all in gas-tight and dust-tight manner, in order to prevent the free escape of dust and gases into the ambient atmosphere during the filling of the furnace. The arrangement includes a housing having an opening positioned in proximity to the normally closed filling inlet. A sealing arrangement is activatable for establishing a gas-tight and dust-tight seal between the portion of the housing surrounding the housing opening and the portion of the furnace surrounding the normally closed filling inlet, so as to confine within the interior of the housing any dust and gas entering the filling inlet or escaping from the filling inlet during the filling of the interior of the furnace. Inside the housing there is provided an arrangement activatable for opening and closing the normally closed filling inlet of the furnace.

Abstract: A device for positioning a lid for a coke oven charging port in the charging port. An arm is pivotally mounted on a coal hopper and carries a pusher member shiftably mounted on the bottom thereof. A motor also mounted on the coal hopper is connected to the arm and moves the arm and the pusher member between a storage position wherein the arm and the pusher member are spaced away from the coke oven and a use position wherein the pusher member is on the coke oven and is moved toward the associated charging port to push the lid toward and into the charging port.

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.