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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6152668 | Coal charging car for charging chambers in a coke-oven battery A coal charging car for a coke-oven battery has a screw-type feeder beneath the coal hopper shiftable on the chassis of the car to allow positioning of the outlet of that feeder over the hole communicating with the coking chamber without moving the car.... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5350262 | Door seal machining device A device for preparing a coke oven door includes a frame for securing the door in a working position. A milling machine for machining the door seal includes a gantry coupled to the frame and a milling head coupled to the gantry. The milling head is movabl... | 09/27/1994 |
| 4990221 | Coke oven door jamb cleaner A coke over door jamb cleaner utilizing a unique supporting arrangement, scraper-type cleaning elements and a floor or hearth cleaning tool for effectively cleaning the sealing surfaces of a coke oven door jamb and the floor or hearth of the coke oven adj... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4863569 | Support for a device for cleaning the doors of a battery-arranged coke furnace A device for cleaning the doors of battery-arranged coke furnaces is provided. The device is suspended at four points from steel cables which pass along a pulley and are joined at its other end to a counter-weight. The cable is joined to the counter-weigh... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4808268 | Apparatus for cleaning coke oven leveling doors and leveling door frames An apparatus is provided for cleaning the leveling doors and leveling door frames of coking chambers in a coking oven. The coking oven has a leveling device located on the machine side with a leveling rod and a device for supporting and pushing the leveli... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4539725 | Apparatus for cleaning furnace walls An improved and simplified device for removal of deposits on furnace walls is disclosed which can be operated by a single individual. The device is characterized by rotating scrapers driven by internally-contained air-powered motors. The horizontally oppo... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4417952 | Apparatus for cleaning coke oven doors An apparatus for cleaning the top or bottom horizontal section of a coke oven door seal ring and which applies approximately constant pressure to all points along its lateral path. A cleaning head is pivotally mounted on the terminal end of an arm member ... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4375389 | Coke oven door cleaner An apparatus that employs a pair of high peripheral speed impact cutters to remove hard carbonaceous deposits from the lateral surfaces of the refractory lining of coke oven doors. The motion of these cutters is synchronized with that of an element of the... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4374704 | Apparatus for pyrolysis of hydrocarbon bearing materials A process and apparatus for the pyrolysis of coal or other hydrocarbon bearing materials in which the material is fed into the upper end of a rotating cylinder and is heated in a plurality of stages, the heated material passing from the cylinder into a ch... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4344204 | Apparatus for cleaning door frames of coke ovens A door frame cleaner for coke ovens in which a supporting frame is mounted on a main frame, which is movable toward or away from a door frame, in such a way that the supporting frame can be moved laterally relative to the main frame in parallel therewith;... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4340987 | Element for cleaning coking-oven doors and doorjamb An apparatus having an element for cleaning deposits from the edge of a doorjamb or door of a coking oven is provided with a heater for maintaining this element at a temperature above the softening point of the deposits, normally around 150° C. The eleme... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4321112 | Device for opening, closing and cleaning fill holes of coke oven chargeable by a coal conveyor A device for opening, closing and cleaning fill holes of a coke oven comprises a self-supporting carrying frame extending above the fill holes and supporting a runway for an overhead crane and further supports spring-biased bell seals for respective fill ... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4300986 | Coke oven door cleaner A door cleaner is capable of automatically scraping a door side, knife edge and recessed inside surface to remove tar and the like adhered thereto. The cleaner can remove both viscous material at the knife edge and recessed inside surface of the door and ... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4300257 | Apparatus for cleaning coke oven door An apparatus for cleaning surfaces, particularly both vertical surfaces, of a plug of a coke oven door. The apparatus has a pair of rotary scrapers adapted to be moved up and down in contact with both vertical surfaces of the plug. Each rotary scraper inc... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4279052 | Flue wall coke build-up removal device This invention relates to a device for cleaning opposed walls of a furnace pit. The device comprises a plurality of rotating screw-type cutters for removing built-up deposits upon the opposed walls of the furnace pit, a plurality of linkage arms for carry... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4277312 | Ascension pipe cleaning apparatus Apparatus is described for cleaning the interior of gooseneck elbows of coke oven ascension pipes. A powered cleaning mechanism carried by the coke oven larry car is mounted on a platform that is reciprocably movable between the larry car and the elbow to... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4259760 | Device for cleaning coke oven doors The cleaning apparatus includes: (A) a cleaning head having a plurality of angled side by side chisel-like blades, the end sections of which are affixed to a pivotable member having one end portion secured to a frame member, said pivotable member allowing... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4243490 | Radial cutter type cleaning apparatus for coke oven door bottom surface Any type of door bottom surface can be completely cleaned by the cleaning apparatus of this invention which comprises a carriage which is driven along a pair of horizontal platforms per se forming therebetween a passage for the carriage, a pair of support... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4233119 | Ascension pipe and elbow cleaning apparatus An improved cleaning apparatus for the removal of carbonaceous deposits from the inner surfaces of the ascension pipe elbows and ascension pipe employed on coke ovens. The cleaning apparatus is comprised of a base support, a movable support and a cleaning... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4201630 | Cleaning coke oven doors or door jambs Machine for cleaning the peripheral sealing surfaces of rectangular coke oven doors or door jambs. A high pressure water jet nozzle is mounted on an eight-wheeled carriage, the nozzle being directed at the sealing surface to be cleaned. The carriage is dr... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4165261 | Apparatus for cleaning a coke oven door Apparatus for cleaning a coke oven door, which has upper and lower closing surfaces and two side closing surfaces which are to be cleaned, the cleaning apparatus being relatively positionable in a position for cleaning when the door is open, comprising a ... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4151919 | Coke oven hopper truck including support for removable filling cover A coke oven hopper truck is movable along a coke oven cover which has therein filling holes closed by removable filling covers. The hopper truck has supported thereon a lifting device including an electromagnet which lifts and lowers the filling covers fr... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4151852 | Cleaning of oven doors A machine for cleaning the sealing surfaces of coke oven doors or door jambs. A high pressure water jet is emitted from a nozzle which is driven on a closed path adjacent the sealing surface, the nozzle block being rotatably mounted with respect to its ca... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4135987 | Apparatus for cleaning the bottom surface of a coke oven door plug A tool provided with a scraping edge is mounted on a support so that it can pivot about a substantially horizontal axis between a lower starting position, an upper end position and one or more intermediate positions in which the scraping edge of the tool ... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4135948 | Method and apparatus for scraping the bottom wall of a coke oven chamber The invention is concerned with an apparatus for scraping the bottom wall of a coke oven chamber adjacent the chamber opening so as to remove deposits which would otherwise prevent the sealing insertion of the chamber door into the opening. The apparatus ... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4110171 | Mechanical jamb cleaner An upstanding support is provided and a carriage is mounted on the support for vertical reciprocation between predetermined upper and lower limit positions on the support. A jamb cleaning head is mounted on the carriage for vertical reciprocation therewit... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4097340 | Apparatus for cleaning coke oven doors Apparatus for cleaning incrusted deposits from the regions of coke oven doors between a central refractory sealing plug and a surrounding sealing edge or strip with the use of two pairs of nozzles carried on the upper and lower ends of a frame which can t... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4097304 | Cleaning coke oven doors Apparatus and method for removing tarry deposits from the sealing surface of coke oven doors. At least the lowermost portion of the sealing surface is cleaned by reciprocating, fan-shaped, high pressure water jets, directed so as to undercut the tarry dep... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4080220 | Process and apparatus for cleaning the door or door frame of a coke oven A carriage is freely suspended, to be movable in all directions, from a cart movable along rails supported by a fixed coke guide car structure of a coke oven. The carriage has upper and lower drives which move grippers to grip the back of a door to be cle... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4025979 | Apparatus for cleaning the sealing surfaces of coke oven doors and door jambs The apparatus for cleaning the horizontal sealing surface of the coke oven door includes a cleaning tool that is arranged to move horizontally on a tool support. The tool support is movably connected to the frame member and is arranged to be adjusted vert... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4000043 | Coke oven door jamb cleaning tool A cleaning tool for door jamb surfaces of a coke oven chamber includes: a sleeve fixed to a frame that is movable toward the door jamb; a plunger resiliently mounted in the sleeve; a support fixed to the plunger; and a multi-sided scraper tool rotatably m... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3990948 | Apparatus for cleaning the bottom surface of a coke oven door plug A cleaner head is pivotally mounted to a shaft carried by an actuating arm that is so powered that, as the actuating arm pivots about an axis, the cleaner head, which is resiliently biased, engages and cleans the bottom surface of a coke oven door plug or... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3972781 | Scraper for the lid and lid seat of a coke oven ascension pipe Apparatus for cleaning ascension pipe lids and lid seats comprises a pivotable tool holder mounted to a larry car and the tool holder carries two sets of cleaning tools. One set is rotatable for cleaning the lid seat in the ascension pipe opening and the ... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3971092 | Apparatus for cleaning the sealing surfaces of coke oven doors and door jambs The apparatus for cleaning the horizontal sealing surface of the coke oven door includes a cleaning tool that is arranged to move horizontally on a tool support. The tool support is movably connected to the frame member and is arranged to be adjusted vert... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3955232 | Coke oven cleaner The coke oven cleaner is capable of scraping particularly the entrance areas of a coke oven automatically to remove tar and the like adhered thereon completely, and comprises an upright stationary holding or support frame mounted on a door lifter, and a f... | 05/11/1976 |