Apparatus for preventing air pollution during coke oven discharge

Claim 1

Apparatus for preventing air pollution during discharge of coke from coke ovens disposed side by side in a row with doors in their front ends, comprising a carriage movable along the front of said row of ovens, a tubular coke guide supported on the carriage for selective positioning thereby in front of the different ovens to receive coke therefrom, a track in front of the carriage parallel to the row of ovens, a quencher car on the track for receiving coke discharged from said guide, a stationary housing permanently mounted to cover said track throughout the length of the row of ovens and having a roof and an outer wall extending therefrom down close to the outer side of said car, the bottom and inner side of the housing being open, transverse upright partitions in the housing dividing it into a plurality of side by side cells, the upper part of each cell being provided with an outlet, a valve for each outlet, a suction line extending along the housing and connected with said cell outlets, and upright closure walls carried by said carriage and extending from the outer end of said tubular guide in opposite directions along said housing far enough to close the side of the cell beside them, the tops of the closure walls substantially engaging the housing roof, and the bottoms of the closure walls being close to the inner side of said car, whereby the cell into which coke is being discharged will have four side walls and a roof.