US Patent Issued to VANOCUR REFRACTORIES on July 28 for "Duct for a heating wall of a coke oven or coke oven battery" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,442, issued on July 28, was assigned to VANOCUR REFRACTORIES LLC (Tonawanda, N.Y.).

"Duct for a heating wall of a coke oven or coke oven battery" was invented by Paul A. Saffrin (Tonawanda, N.Y.) and Richard M. Maida (Tonawanda, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duct operatively arranged to fluidly connect a first flue of a heating wall of a coke oven battery with a second flue of the heating wall, the duct comprising a first end, second end, a distal end and a proximal end, a passageway disposed therein, the passageway extending from the first end to the second end, a pair of proximal apertures disposed within the proximal end a...