A drive motor is installed, under a transfer path, at each site that serves as an entrance or exit of end shutters and partition shutters; a tongue piece-like sending member is provided on a rotation shaft of the drive motor, which protrudes to a surface side of the transfer path; and a plurality of contact-engagement-separation members are provided at constant intervals on a back side of a bottom surface of the storage container, the tongue piece-like sending member coming into contact with one of the contact-engagement-separation members when the tongue piece-like sending member revolves by the drive motor, and engaging with and separating from the contact-engagement-separation member so that a transfer force in an advancing direction is transmitted to the storage container in response to the revolution. Each time of revolution, the tongue piece-like sending member sequentially and repeatedly contacts with engages with and separates from the plurality of contact-engagement-separation members provided at constant intervals, to enable transfer of the storage container in the advancing direction.

A drive motor is installed, under a transfer path, at each site that serves as an entrance or exit of end shutters and partition shutters; a tongue piece-like sending member is provided on a rotation shaft of the drive motor, which protrudes to a surface side of the transfer path; and a plurality of contact-engagement-separation members are provided at constant intervals on a back side of a bottom surface of the storage container, the tongue piece-like sending member coming into contact with one of the contact-engagement-separation members when the tongue piece-like sending member revolves by the drive motor, and engaging with and separating from the contact-engagement-separation member so that a transfer force in an advancing direction is transmitted to the storage container in response to the revolution. Each time of revolution, the tongue piece-like sending member sequentially and repeatedly contacts with engages with and separates from the plurality of contact-engagement-separation members provided at constant intervals, to enable transfer of the storage container in the advancing direction.

The present invention provides a system for producing mesophase coke from an isotropic pitch. The system includes a reactor having a first heating zone to carry out pretreating of the isotropic pitch by operating at a temperature of 250 C.-350 C. under atmospheric pressure. The reactor further includes a second heating zone to carry out heating of the pretreated isotropic pitch by maintaining the temperature of 350 C.-500 C. under the atmospheric pressure to obtain mesophase pitch. The reactor includes a third heating zone to carry out heating of the said mesophase pitch by maintaining the temperature of 500 C.-800 C. under the atmospheric pressure to obtain mesophase coke. The system further includes a pusher unit adapted to physically move the container from the entry zone to the exit zone to obtain the mesophase coke.