Saarbergwerke Aktiengesellschaft

Kurt Leibrock

Adolf Bier

Friedrich Buch

Hans-Jurgen Killich

Device for gripping and raising tamping tools or for holding raised

An apparatus for compacting coal in a pounding box to convert it into a cake usable in coke ovens has one or more punners which are each composed of an upright the lower end of which carries a pounding foot. At opposite sides of the respective upright are arranged a pair of engaging elements which are made to engage the upright and are then moved to an upper position, during which movement they take along the upright to raise the pounding foot above the coal in the pounding box. On reaching their upper position the engaging elements release the upright so that the punner can drop by gravity onto the coal in the box.

Apparatus for compacting coal

Coal is pounded in a pounding box to form it into a cake which is then introduced into a coke oven. The pounding is effected by members that are repeatedly lifted and then allowed to drop onto the coal in the pounding box. When the coal is thus formed into a cake, the members are retained in lifted condition by a locking-cam mechanism so that the cake can be pushed from beneath the members.

Coal compacting apparatus

A massive compacted coal charge body is made by pounding a particulate bed consisting of moist coal particles by a plurality of sequentially operated rams until the particulate bed is converted into a charge body the height of which exceeds its width by at least eleven times and the charge body having a specific density of at least 1.1 metric tons/m.sup.3. Each of the rams has a ram body and a ram rod extending upwardly from the ram body, the ram rod being engaged and clamped for joint lifting by one or a pair of lifting members. Each lifting member is pivotally mounted on a shaft and has an eccentric engaging surface which comes into engagement with the respective ram rod. When two lifting members are associated with each ram rod, both of them are pivoted in synchronism. In the upper position of the ram, each lifting member releases the respective ram rod to permit the respective ram to descend onto the particulate bed in a free gravitational fall. The individual rams are mounted on one or more carriages which are reciprocatable longitudinally of a mold in which the particulate bed is confined by such a distance that the entire exposed surface of the particulate bed is acted upon by the rams. The movement of the carriages and that of the rams are independent of one another.

Method of and an arrangement for making stable massive compacted coal

Coking coal is pounded into a compacted cake of substantially uniform density in a pounding box by means of a plurality of punners mounted on carriages which can move to-and-fro lengthwise of the box. The punners are alternately raised and then allowed to drop under the influence of gravity onto the coal in the box. The raising and dropping is so timed that at any time preferably the foot of only one punner per carriage is in contact with the coal in the box, so as to leave as much as possible of the coal surface area exposed.

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Furstenhausen, Germany

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