Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Receiving and Trans- porting the Discharged Contents of Furnaces or Ovens, such as Coke Ovens.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Receiving and Trans-
porting the Discharged Contents of Furnaces or Ovens, such as
Coke Ovens.
I, EDWARD NEEDLES TRUMP, of No. 1912, W. Genesee Street, in the City of
Syracuse, County of Onondaga, and State of New York, United States of America,
Mechanical 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:-
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This invention relates to an arrangement of means or apparatus for receiving,
manipulating and transporting matters issuing from certain furnaces or ovens
such as coke ovens whereby manual labour is dispensed with as much as possible.
In the annexed drawings:
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the general arrangement with portions removed.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section according to the line X Y of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of the carriage D to a larger scale.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section according to the line W Z of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of a guide for use in automatically discharging the
carriage D).
Although specially describe hereinafter the application of the said arrange-
ment to coke furnaces it is to be understood that I reserve to myself its utiliza-
tion in connection with various other kinds of furnaces.
Hitherto the coke pig issuing from the chambers of coke ovens has fallen simply
upon an incline where it has been quenched and broken in order to charge it
afterwards with the shovel upon the vehicles serving to transport them. According
to the present invention the coke arrives mechanically from the furnace onto a
suitable vehicle to be hereinafter described.
The incline ordinarily arranged at the front of coke ovens has substituted for
it in my system a platform B of an appropriate width and arranged almost hori-
zontally on the same level as the bottoms or floors of the chambers of the oven.
The said platform B terminates vertically so as to provide a lower adjacent passage
or counterbass in which can travel a special carriage B on a track L.
The carriage D is constructed in the special manner indicated in the drawings.
Its bottom G is inclined at a suitable angle so that when beside a furnace its
upper edge corresponds to the height of the platform B or comes by preference
under a slightly projecting ledge arranged along the said platform. At the lower
part of the bottom G and placed at right angles to it is attached a longitudinal
wall E intended to hold back or support the coke. A cover F of suitable form
can .. arranged on the carriage in the case where it would be necessary to trans-
port the unslaked coke to a distance. The bottom G and the joints of the different
parts of the carriage are arranged so as to permit a rapid escape of the water

page_text: serving for extinction of the coke. Also a suitable system of drainage is arranged
at the ground to receive and direct this water away.
Doors Hare provided in the longitudinal wall E of the carriage in order to
allow of the discharging of the latter. These doors open preferably upwards and
from the interior towards the exterior by turning on hinges I. Their closure is
preferably effected by means of special latches K, formed by levers placed outside
the body of the carriage. These levers pivot at a suitable point of their length
on pivots fixed on the framework of the carriage a little below the base or seat
of the doors H. One of the ends of the said levers K is kept lowered by means
of a counterweight whilst the other bears against the door and insures the
closure of the latter. It is sufficient to raise the counterweight in order to bring
about the opening of the door. The counterweights of the latches K can be
raised automatically; in which case there can be adopted the simple arrangement
indicated in Fig. 5. A guide R of suitable profile is arranged along the track L
at the place where the carriage is to be discharged. This guide R causes the
opening of the doors by raising the counterweights of the latches K by its raised
part S. The same system of latches that ensures the automatic opening of the
doors H also allows the opening to be effected by hand.
The track L can be arranged on an incline so as to enable the carriage D to
be raised upon a platform M placed at a suitable distance from the furnaces or
ovens. The carriage D can be thus brought above the ordinary railway wagon
or other vehicles N or above the feeding hoppers of the crushers or other apparatus.
The operation of emptying a chamber of a coke oven A according to this inven-
tion will consist then in receiving in the carriage D the incandescent pig C
extracted from or driven out of the oven by the ordinary furnace emptying
apparatus P. The pig is broken into fragments by the effect of its own weight
on reaching the ledge of the platform B and these fragments are distributed
uniformly over the whole length of the carriage D whilst simply causing this
latter to advance under the pig during its fall. The coke in the carriage D is
then quenched by jets of water and the carriage is brought upon the platform M
to be there discharged. The carriage D may be moved in any suitable manner
by a locomotive, a cable, or any other suitable means. It is brought upon the
platform M by an inclined track, an elevator, or other suitable arrangement.
Dated this 29th day of June 1898.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Receiving and Trans-
porting the Discharged Contents of Furnaces or Ovens, such as
Coke Ovens.
I, EDWARD NEEDLES TRUMP, of No. 1912, W. Genesee Street, in the City of
Syracuse, County of Onondaga, and State of New York, United States of America,
Mechanical 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 relates to an arrangement of means or apparatus for receiving,
manipulating and transporting matters issuing from certain furnaces or ovens
such as coke ovens whereby manual labour is dispensed with as much as possible.

page_text: In the drawings nied with my provisional specification;
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the general arrangement, with portions removed.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section according to the line X Y of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of the carriage D to a larger scale.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section according to the line W Z of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of a guide for use in automatically discharging the
carriage D.
Although I specially describe hereinafter the application of the said arrange-
ment to coke ovens it is to be understood that I reserve to myself its utiliza-
tion in connection with various other kinds of furnaces or ovens.
Hitherto the coke pig issuing from the chambers of coke ovens has fallen simply
upon an incline where it has been quenched and broken in order to charge it
afterwards with the shovel upon the vehicles serving to transport them. According
to the present invention the coke arrives mechanically from the furnace onto a
suitable vehicle to be hereinafter described.
The incline ordinarily arranged at the front of coke ovens has substituted for
it in my system a platform B of an appropriate width and arranged almost hori-
zontally on the same level as the bottoms or floors of the chambers of the oven.
The said platform B terminates vertically so as to provide a lower adjacent passage
or counterbass in which can travel a special carriage 1) on a track L.
The carriage D is constructed in the special iner indicated in the drawings.
Its bottom G is inclined at a suitable angle so that when beside a furnace its
upper edge corresponds to the height of the platform B or by preference
under a slightly projecting ledge arranged along the said platform. At the lower
part of the bottom G and placed at right angles to it is attached a longitudinal
wall E intended to hold back or support the coke. A cover F of suitable form
can be arranged on the carriage in the case where it would be necessary to trans-
port the unslaked coke to a distance. The bottom G and the joints of the different
parts of the carriage are arranged so as to permit a rapid escape of the water
serving for extinction of the coke. Also a suitable system of drainage is arranged
at the ground to receive and direct this water away.
Doors H are provided in the longitudinal wall E of the carriage in order to
allow of the discharging of the latter. These doors open preferably upwards and
from the interior towards the exterior by turning on hinges I. Their closure is
preferably effected by means of special latches K formed by levers placed outside
the body of the carriage. These levers pivot at a suitable point of their length
on pivots fixed on the framework of the carriage a little below the base or seat
of the doors H. One of the ends of the said levers K is kept lowered by means
of a counterweight whilst the other bears against the door and insures the
closure of the latter. It is sufficient to raise the counterweight in order to bring
about the opening of the door. The counterweights of the latches K can be
raised automatically; in which case there can be adopted the simple arrangement
indicated in Fig. 5. A guide R of suitable profile is arranged along the track L
at the place where the carriage is to be discharged. This guide R causes the
opening of the doors by raising the counterweights of the latches K by its raised
part S. The same system of latches that insures the automatic opening of the
doors H also allows the opening to be effected by hand.
The track L can be arranged on an incline so as to enable the carriage D to
be raised upon a platform M placed at a suitable distance from the furnaces or
ovens. The carriage D can be thus brought above the ordinary railway wagons
or other vehicles N or above the feeding hoppers of the crushers or other apparatus.
The operation of emptying a chember of a coke oven A according to this inven-
tion will consist then in receiving in the carriage D the incandescent pig C
extracted from or driven out of the oven by the ordinary furnace emptying
apparatus P. The pig is broken into fragments by the effect of its own weight
on reaching the ledge of the platform B and these fragments are distributed
uniformly over the whole length of the carriage D whilst simply causing this

page_text: latter to advance under the pig during its fall. The coke in the carriage D is
then quenched by jets of water and the carriage is brought upon the platform M
to be there discharged. The carriage D may be moved in any suitable manner,
by a locomotive, a cable, or any other suitable means. It is brought upon the
platform M by an inclined track, an elevator, or other suitable arrangement.
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:
1. A carriage D, intended to receive directly and to transport the matters
issuing from a furnace or oven provided or constructed with an inclined bottom G
which is not water-tight, a longitudinal wall E having doors H which are closed
by latches K, the said carriage D being capable of travelling on a track L fur-
nished or not with rails and arranged at a lower level than the opening of the
furnace.
2. The combination of a carriage mentioned in Claim 1, with the employment
of a platform B arranged on the front of the furnace or oven and at the level
of the bottom or floor of the chambers of the said furnace or oven so as to permit
the matters issuing from the furnace or oven to fall directly into the said carriage
placed at a lower level than the said platform B and to be spread uniformly there-
upon when the said carriage D is caused to advance.
3. The combination of the carriage D described in Claim 1 and travelling on
a lower level than the platform B described in Claim 2, with the employment of
a platform M upon which the road L brings the said carriage D above the
vehicles N intended to transport the matters or above the feeding-hoppers of the
crushers or other apparatus.
4. In the carriage D described in Claim 1, the arrangement of the doors H
with hinges
opening upwards and from the interior towards the exterior to
permit of the mechanical discharging of the said carriage.
5. In the carriage D described in Claim 1, the arrangement at the doors H
described in Claim 4, of latches K pivoting at a suitable point of their length
on pivots fixed a little below the base of the doors H and holding the latter by
one of their ends whilst the other end is kept lowered by a counterweight, the
said latches K being capable of being operated automatically or by hand.
6. The employment of a guide R of special profile arranged along the road L
at the point of discharge of the carriage D described in Claim 1, so as to insure
the automatic opening of the doors H described in Claim 4, by the raising of
the counterweight of the latches K described in Claim 5.
7. The improved means or apparatus for receiving and transporting the dis-
charged contents of coke furnaces or ovens or the like furnaces constructed ar-
ranged and operating substantially as herein before described with reference to
and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of June 1808
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.