Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Breaking Coke.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
VODE LIMIE DEUTELUATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Breaking Coke.
I, WILLIAM ANDREW MCINTOSH VALON, of Royal Crescent, Ramsgate, and
140 Temple Chambors, Temple Avenue, London, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:--
This invention has reference to an improved construction and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for breaking coke as I shall now proceed to explain by
reforonco to the accompanying drawings wherein Figs. 1 and 2 show the same in
side and end elevation respectively.
1 and 2 are two toothed breaking rollers gearing with each other and between
which the coke to be broken is fed from a hopper 3 to which it is delivered by a
bucket conveyor 4 from a pit or receptacle 5 into which it can be conveniently
dumped.
Each roller is preferably made of a number of toothed metal dises or rings
arranged side by side and clamped together on its carrying shaft. The roller is
fast on a shaft 7 mounted to rotate in fixed bearings carried by girders 8 and has
fixed to it a toothed driving wheel 9 in gear with a toothed pinion 10 fast on the
crank shaft 11 of a vertical motive fluid engine which is shown diagrammatically
at 12, and which is also carried by the girders 8. The roller 2 is carried by a
shaft 13 mounted in bearings that are arranged to slide in guideways 14 on the
girders 8, the said bearings being normally pressed against stops by a weight 15
acting through a lever arm 16, shaft 17, lever arms 18, and presser bars 19, the
arrangement being such that the rollers 1 and 2 are normally maintained at n
suitable distance apart to break coke to the required size, but that in the ovent of
a comparatively large piece of hard material, such as iron being delivered with the
coke between the rollers, the roller 2 will move away from the roller 1 against the
action of the weight 15 and so permit the hard material to pass without liability of
damaging either of the rollers. Below the rollers 1 and 2 is an inclined shoot 20
the bottom of which is formed of a series of parallel bars arranged at a small
distanc apart to serve as a screen to separate small coke or breeze from the
larger pieces of coke.
The girders 8 are carried by two pairs of standards 21, 21 whereof 21 are
approximately A shape and serve to carry the bearings for the shafts 22 of the
chain wheels 23 round which the bucket conveyor 4 works. The upper of the two
shafts 22 is the driving one and is provided with a pulley 24 driven by a belt 25
from a pulley 26 fast on the crank shaft 11.
Apparatus constructed as described enables coke to be broken to any required
size in a simple and convenient manner with the minimum of labour and with the
minimum production of small coke or breeze, whilst liability of the apparatus
being damaged by pieces of hard material fed between the breaking rollers with
the coke is entirely obviated.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
.
. My improved machine or apparatus for breaking coke, constructed, arranged
and operating substantially as described and shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
.
. My improved machine or apparatus for breaking coke, constructed, arranged
and operating substantially as described and shown.
Date 1st any of April 1897.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
OL April 1097.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.