Continuous carbonization process and apparatus for solid carbonaceous materials

Claim 1

THE CONTINUOUS PROCESS OF PRODUCING HARD COKE AS WELL AS COLE CHEMICALS FROM CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS PREPARED IN THE FORM OF SCREENED LUMPS AS WELL AS SPHERICAL BRIQUETTES CARBONIZED AT TEMPERATURES OVER 800*C., WHICH COMPRISES PASSING CARBONIZABLE MATERIAL THROUGH AN ELONGATED SPIRAL ZONE IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH MOLTEN METAL HEATING MEDIUM SELECTED INDIVIDUALLY OR IN COMBINATION FROM THE METAL GROUP CONSISTING OF ALUMINUM AND MAGNESIUM TO PROVIDE A HIGHER DENSITY THAN VARIABLE DENSITY OF MATERIAL TREATED, UPWARDLY FLOWED AND WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY HEATED INDEPENDENTLY OF SAID CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL AT LEAST TO SAID CARBONIZING TEMPERATURE, WITHDRAWING THE VOLATILE PRODUCTS INTO AN EXHAUSTING ZONE, OVERFLOWING THE SUSPENSION OF COKE PRODUCED IN THE MOLTEN METAL INTO SEPARATING ZONE FROM WHICH SAID COKE IS DISCHARGED THROUGH A COOLING ZONE AS A FINAL PRODUCT WHILE SAID MOLTEN METAL, AFTER ITS SEPARATION FROM COKE BREEZE, IS OVERFLOWED INTO A HEATING ZONE FOR REHEATING TO SAID PROCESS TEMPERATURE AND FURTHER RETURNED TO THE RECIRCULATING PROCESS.