Patent ID: 7815829

Claim:
A hydraulic pressing device for the production of compacted coal cake from bulk coal for use in a coke oven, the hydraulic pressing device comprising at least one hydraulic plunger, a mold, a removable cake carrier plate placed onto the bottom of the mold, a delivery chute arranged above the mold, wherein the mold is in the form of a carriage or cradle comprising side walls, a bottom and a stop plate, a delivery chute is arranged above the cradle or carriage perpendicularly to its movement direction, permanently fixed hydraulic cylinders which move a cylinder head piece in a horizontal direction with the head piece, while moving forward, forcing the coal delivered by the delivery chute perpendicularly to the delivery chute forward under the delivery chute against the stop plate and under a level pressed cake cover, the carriage is braked by a force acting in the opposite direction to the pressing direction of the hydraulic cylinders, and the pressed cake cover, which is arranged immediately adjacent to the delivery chute, the cylinder head piece and the delivery chute are aligned in parallel.