Patent ID: 9458383
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: C10B

Claim Text:
1. In a method for producing coke by the coking of coal in a coke oven chamber of a heat-recovery or non-recovery coke oven bank having a pusher machine for pushing coke from the coke oven chamber, the coke being in the form of a compact and solid coke cake, and wherein the compact and solid coke cake is pushed onto a receiving container of a quenching car and transported to a quenching tower for cooling by means of a cooling agent, the improvement comprising: providing the receiving container of the quenching car with a plate positioned above a bottom of the receiving container, the plate comprising a plurality of moveable segments moveable with respect to other segments of the plate, pushing a compact and solid coke cake onto the plate, and moving one or more segments of the plate relative to other segments such that the coke cake breaks up to form new gaps, channels and clear edge areas in the compact and solid coke into which cooling agent can flow from cooling agent nozzles from above the quenching car in the quenching tower such that a greater portion of the coke cake can be wetted by the cooling agent.