Patent ID: 9260664
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: C10B

Claim Text:
1. A method for the capture of spilled coke from a coke cake spilling from a coke oven upon opening a first coke oven door of said coke oven and for sliding said spilled coke back into the coke oven to rejoin the coke cake, the coke oven associated with a coke pusher for pushing a hot coke cake through a second coke oven door located on a side of said coke oven remote from said coke pusher, the method comprising: providing a guide plate positioned below said first coke oven door; providing a spilled coke container having an upper edge, for receiving spilled coke, the spilled coke container mounted on pivots between suspensions on first and second sides of the spilled coke container; altering the relative positions of the guide plate and the spilled coke container such that coke spilling from the coke oven upon opening the first coke oven door slides down the guide plate and into the spilled coke container; raising the spilled coke container to a position where said upper edge is at least on a level with a bottom floor of the coke oven, and pivoting the spilled coke container via the suspensions and a vertical traction device, traversing the coke pusher along the spilled coke container through the suspensions and sliding the spilled coke in the spilled coke container back into the oven; and pushing the coke cake and spilled coke slid into the coke oven by the coke pusher through the coke oven and out said second coke oven door.