Pollution free coke quenching car

Claim 1

A coke quenching car movable along a battery of horizontal coke ovens for receiving coke discharged therefrom in a horizontal direction, comprising a pair of spaced vertical side walls extending transversely of the car and defining a fall space between them, the upper part of said space having a front opening between said vertical walls for receiving coke horizontally discharged from an oven, means for closing said opening, a fronT wall closing the front of the fall space below said opening, a back wall closing the back of said space, a ramp as wide as said fall space extending from the bottom of said opening rearwardly in said space part way across the car, a deck sloping from said back wall downwardly toward said front wall and below the inner end of said ramp for receiving coke therefrom and discharging it beneath the ramp, a floor sloping from said front wall downwardly toward said back wall for receiving coke from said deck and directing the coke toward said back wall beneath the deck, the lower part of said back wall having an outlet opening therein extending across said floor for escape of coke from the car, a door for said opening, a first water spray located above said fall space, a second water spray located below said ramp, and a third water spray located below said deck, each of said sprays being arranged for quenching coke passing beneath the sprays.