Method for charging a coke-oven battery

Claim 1

A METHOD FOR CHARGING A COKE OVER COKING CHAMBER OF A COKE-OVEN BATTERY COMPRISING HORIZONTAL TAPERED COKING CHAMBERS AND INTERPOSED FLUED HEATING WALLS DISPOSED SIDE BY SIDE, THE COKING CHAMBERS EACH BEING WIDER AT THE COKE SIDE THAN AT THE PUSHER SIDE, WHICH COMPRISES SPOTTING AT LEAST THREE UNEQUAL VOLUMES OF COKING COAL ABOVE A CORRESPONDING NUMBER OF SPACED CHARGING OPENINGS FOR THE COKE OVEN COKING CHAMBER, THE CHARGING OPENINGS BEING SPACED APART DISTANCES SUCH THAT THE VOLUMETRIC CAPACITIES OF OVEN CHAMBER SECTIONS THEREBENEATH, INDIVIDUAL THERETO AND FED THERETHROUGH ARE UNEQUAL WITH THE VOLUMETRIC CAPACITY OF THE CHAMBER SECTION AT THE COKE SIDE BEING AT LEAST 15% GREATER THAN THAT OF THE CHAMBER SECTION AT THE PUSHER SIDE, THE VOLUMES OF COAL EACH BEING OF SIZE SUFFICIENT TO SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY FILL THE CORRESPONDING OVEN CHAMBER SECTION EXCEPT FOR A GAS COLLECTING SPACE IN THE UPPER PORTION OF THE CHAMBER SECTION AND EXTENDING THE FULL LENGTH OF THE OVEN CHAMBER, FORCE FEEDING THE COAL SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM EACH OF SAID VOLUMES THROUGH THE CHARGING OPENINGS INTO THE CHAMBER SECTIONS AT A RATE RATIO ABOUT THE SAME AS THE RATIO OF THE UNEQUAL VOLUMES OF COAL THEREBY COMPLETING DISCHARGING ALL COAL FROM ALL OF SAID VOLUMES INTO THE CHAMBER SECTIONS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND THEREAFTER LEVELING THE PILES OF COAL THUS CHARGED INTO THE COKING CHAMBER.

Claim 2

A METHOD FOR CHARGING A COKE OVER COKING CHAMBER OF A COKE-OVEN BATTERY COMPRISING HORIZONTAL TAPERED COKING CHAMBERS AND INTERPOSED FLUED HEATING WALLS DISPOSED SIDE BY SIDE, THE COKING CHAMBERS EACH BEING WIDER AT THE COKE SIDE THAN AT THE PUSHER SIDE, WHICH COMPRISES SPOTTING AT LEAST THREE UNEQUAL VOLUMES OF COKING COAL ABOVE A CORRESPONDING NUMBER OF SPACED CHARGING OPENINGS FOR THE COKE OVEN COKING CHAMBER, THE CHARGING OPENINGS BEING SPACED APART DISTANCES SUCH THAT THE VOLUMETRIC CAPACITIES OF OVEN CHAMBER SECTIONS THEREBENEATH, INDIVIDUAL THERETO AND FED THERETHROUGH ARE UNEQUAL WITH THE VOLUMETRIC CAPACITY OF THE CHAMBER SECTION AT THE COKE SIDE BEING AT LEAST 15% GREATER THAN THAT OF THE CHAMBER SECTION AT THE PUSHER SIDE, THE VOLUMES OF COAL EACH BEING OF SIZE SUFFICIENT TO SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY FILL THE CORRESPONDING OVEN CHAMBER SECTION EXCEPT FOR A GAS COLLECTING SPACE IN THE UPPER PORTION OF THE CHAMBER SECTION AND EXTENDING THE FULL LENGTH OF THE OVEN CHAMBER, FORCE FEEDING THE COAL SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM EACH OF SAID VOLUMES THROUGH THE CHARGING OPENINGS INTO THE CHAMBER SECTIONS AT A RATE RATIO ABOUT THE SAME AS THE RATIO OF THE UNEQUAL VOLUMES OF COAL THEREBY COMPLETING DISCHARGING ALL COAL FROM ALL OF SAID VOLUMES INTO THE CHAMBER SECTIONS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND THEREAFTER LEVELING THE PILES OF COAL THUS CHARGED INTO THE COKING CHAMBER.