The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

COKE FROM COKE OVENS 39* takes place slowly from the bottom upwards until the whole of the coke is submerged. The receptacle or skip a is now slowly raised and the water allowed to run out of side openings into the water tanks d; when the water has run off the skip is raised further, and tipped automatically by rollers and guides (as shown in dotted lines) on to the screen and thence to the truck. The same machine is built in different ways. In some installations the skips are detachable, and are placed on a wheeled base and conveyed thus intact with their load to Fig. 551. Schöndeling System for Quenching and Loading Coke. a. The coke receptacle, b. Winding géar for lifting and lowering the receptacle, c. Ihe steam or vapour duct. d. Two quenching water receptacles (communicating with each other). e. Shield between oven and quenching apparatus. Flap which bridges over the gap between the oven door and the apparatus, g. Screen on which the coke is emptied, h. Receptacle for small coke. i. Rails on to which the apparatus runs. k. Water receptacle in which a stands whilst receiving a charge of coke. where the coke is required. In some machines the tank k is dispensed with, and the water enters into the space between the double walls of the skip from the tank d; when tank k is used the skips are generally of- single iron sheets, and double walled. The weight of the skip in some machines is balanced by weights. Two men only are necessary to manipulate such a plant, and with it are capable of handling the contents of six or seven ovens per hour. Similar installations, but with slight modifications, are at work at Zeche Radbod and Zeche Bismarck, in the Ruhr district of Germany, also one at Zeche Neumühl.