Kenneth A Sutton

US Patent:

41860551, Jan 29, 1980

Filed:

Jun 26, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/918834

Inventors:

William R. Baird - Sturgis KY
Kenneth O. Sutton - Morganfield KY
Billy C. Baird - Sturgis KY

Assignee:

Saturn Machine & Welding Co., Inc. - Sturgis KY

International Classification:

C10B 2506
C10B 2516

US Classification:

202248

Abstract:

A coke oven door construction, adaptable for either the pusher side or the coke side of the oven, has a diaphragm arranged so as to exert an even pressure all around the door and associated jamb when the door is locked in the jamb by a suitable locking device. After the door has been locked in place, air is connected to the bottom of the door so as to permit injection of a mixture of air and a suitable anti-stick agent all around the door diaphragm and onto the sealing surface of the associated jamb. The anti-stick agent keeps carbon and other foreign matter from sticking to the diaphragm and jamb surfaces. Further, if a fire occurs between the sealing surfaces, it can be extinguished by connecting the air to the doors. The air mixed with the anti-stick agent is preferably preheated before it reaches the jamb surface so as to prevent warping of the jambs. In addition, to eliminate vertical warping of the door, the frame of the door is made flexible in the middle thereof, and the flexible portion of the frame is spring loaded so as to hold the frame straight until the jamb moves inboard or outboard of the frame.

US Patent:

41101715, Aug 29, 1978

Filed:

May 20, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/798869

Inventors:

William R. Baird - Sturgis KY
Kenneth O. Sutton - Morganfield KY
Billy C. Baird - Sullivan KY

Assignee:

Saturn Machine & Welding Co., Inc. - Sturgis KY

International Classification:

C10B 4304

US Classification:

202241

Abstract:

An upstanding support is provided and a carriage is mounted on the support for vertical reciprocation between predetermined upper and lower limit positions on the support. A jamb cleaning head is mounted on the carriage for vertical reciprocation therewith along and for cleaning an adjacent upstanding jamb portion. A support structure stationarily positioned relative to an associated coke oven jamb and mounting structure is provided for supporting the upstanding support relative to the stationary support structure for vertical shifting relative thereto. First drive structure is connected between the support and the carriage for driving the latter along the former between the aforementioned limit positions and reversible second drive structure is connected between the stationary support structure and the upstanding support for reversibly variably shifting the upstanding support relative to the stationary support structure. Further, actuator structure is provided for the second drive structure and is operative to sense upper and lower limits of an upstanding jamb portion with which the cleaning head is operatively associated and to actuate the second drive structure to lower and raise the upstanding support relative to the stationary support structure in response to sensing upper and lower limits, respectively, of the jamb portion whereby the upper and lower limit positions of movement of the carriage relative to the upstanding support may be achieved by downward and upward shifting, respectively, of the upstanding support relative to the stationary support structure when the vertical spacing between the upper and lower limits of the associated jamb is less than the vertical spacing between the upper and lower limit positions of vertical reciprocation of the carriage relative to the upstanding support.