Patent ID: 8596945

Claim:
An apparatus for charging chambers of a coke oven having a top wall provided with charging ports spaced apart in a longitudinal direction, the apparatus comprising a horizontal screw conveyor mounted underneath a coal-charging larry cart, having a downwardly open outlet, and movable in the longitudinal direction, a telescopic charging chute provided below the outlet of the horizontal screw conveyor and having an upper intake funnel and a telescopic lower part that can be lowered vertically into the charging ports of the coke oven and that is displaceable horizontally in the longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction relative to the cart for alignment with the charging ports, a support frame carrying the intake funnel, a lifter carried on the support frame for vertically displacing the telescopic lower part, a traveling frame in which the support frame is movable in a straight line in the transverse direction, the traveling frame being horizontally movable in the longitudinal direction on rails mounted on the lower side of the coal-charging larry cart, and a seal on a top side of the support frame that surrounds the intake funnel of the telescopic charging chute, works together with a horizontal lower flange surface on the outlet of the horizontal screw conveyor, and permits horizontal movement of the intake funnel relative to the outlet of the horizontal screw conveyor.