Cement manufacture

Claim 1

IN A PROCESS FOR COOLING HOT KILN DISCHARGE INCLUDING DEPOSITION THE HOT DISCHARGE FROM THE DISCHARGE END OF THE KILN UPON A MOVABLE GRATE TYPE CONVEYOR HAVING MOVABLE GRATES AND THEN CONVEYING THE DISCHARGE FROM THE KILN UPON THE CONVEYOR AND COOLING IT AS IT IS CONVEYED UNTIL IT IS SUBSTANTIALLY COOLED, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING ESSENTIALLY THE STEPS OF FIRST DROPPING ALL THE HOT KILN DISCHARGE DIRECTLY FROM THE KILN DISCHARGE END UPON A DOWNWARDLY SLOPED SHELF LOCATED ABOVE THE CONVEYOR AND BELOW THE KILN BEFORE PLACING THE KILN DISCHARGE UPON THE CONVEYOR, TO FORM A COATING OF HOT DISCHARGE UPON THE SHELF, NEXT, SLICING THE COATING ON THE SHELF BY MEANS OF REGULARLY APPLIED STROKES IN VERTICAL PLANES, SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLIED AT CLOSELY HORIZONTALLY SPACED APART LOCATIONS ALONG THE COATING, EXTENDING THE STROKES SUBSTANTIALLY ALONG THE FULL INCLINED LENGTH OF THE COATING BEGINNING FROM THE SURFACE OF THE SHELF IN A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL DIRECTION TOWARDS THE DIRECTION OF THE COVEYOR A SUFFICIENT DISTANCE TO SLICE THE COATING AND MOVE FRAGMENTS DOWNWARDLY UPON THE CONVEYOR, AND APPLYING THE STROKES IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE MOVABLE GRATES OF THE COVEYOR.