Modern Gasworks Practice

324 MODERN GASWORKS PRACTICE The Travelling Skip Conveyob A certain amount of wear and tear must always be anticrpated when the apparatus employed gives rise to friction between coke and metal. One of the latest methods introduced in order to avoid this draw'back is the travelling skip for dealing Fia. 238.—Dbake’s Travelling Skip System of Coke Handling. with hot coke direct from the carbonizing chamber. The contrivance possesses the merit of extreme simplicity, and consists essential ly of a travelling inclined elevator, in which the usual series of buckets is replaced by a single skip of large dimensions, The elevator is mounted on a bogie and travels on rails mnnmg parallel with. the carbonizing system. By means of shoots the coke is delivered gently into the skip