TODAY’S PATENT – DRY DISTILLATION PROCESS AND APPARATUS

The DRY DISTILLATION PROCESS AND APPARATUS was invented by Schmidt Josef, Schneider Theodor, Thiersch Friedrich, Knappstein Johannes, Stuhrmann Otto Martin and Voll Heinrich on the 18th of September 1962, bearing patent number US3054728A.

This present invention generally relates to regenerator compound coke oven battery having a center wall and a plurality of oven heads in opposed relation to said wall, horizontal upper flue channel means located at a predetermined level above said center wall, horizontal sole flue channel means extending toward said center wall and adapted to admit and direct a gaseous medium under pressure toward said center wall from the side at which the respective oven heads are disposed, upright walls defining coke chamber means, heating flues defined by spaced apart binder means having ducts for guiding into respective mating flues said medium which is adapted to be burnt therein and to transfer heat to said upright walls of said coke chamber means for coking the contents of the latter, said binder means for coking right walls extending between said upper flue channel means and a level determined by the upper end of said center wall and being arranged at either side of said center wall for use in reversible oven operations, the upper ends of said binder means defining therebetween openings adapted to communicate with said upper flue channel means.