Gewerkschaft Eisenhutte Westfalia, Gmbh

Untertage Maschinenfabrik Dudweiler Gmbh

Kunibert Becker

Rudiger Kirchbrucher

Walter Weirich

Harry Rosenberg

Gunter Lagodka

Burckhard Elsner

Gerd Dunkel

Klaus Beckmann

Herbert Beyer

Gerhard Merten

Michael Dettmers

Lubomir Plevak

Horst Schlusener

Jurgen Dodt

Willy Heyer

Burckhardt Elsner

Hans-Joachim Dreher

Horst Stapper

Klaus-Dieter Pohlmann

Klaus D Pohlmann

Michael Preuschoff

Burghardt Elsner

Chain-drum drive or guidance mechanism in a machine frame of a chain-scraper conveyor, has a shaft (6) of its chain-drum (5), outer bearing parts (8) receiving shaft bearings (7), as well as sealing elements (24, 25) for sealing gaps between the outer bearing parts and the chain drum, all combined in a pre-assembled unit (12), which is fitted into, and removed from the machine frame (1) as a whole. The unit (12) is secured in the machine frame (1) preferably by clamp connections, in particular hydraulic annular clamps (31) or the like, which are seated in the openings (11) of the machine frame side walls (2, 3).

Chain-drum mechanism

A mineral mining installation comprises a roof support unit and an advance mechanism. The roof support unit has a floor sill constituted by two floor girders. The advance mechanism comprises a hydraulic advance ram, the advance ram having a relatively-displaceable cylinder and a piston rod, and a device for selectively limiting the working stroke of the ram. The stroke-limiting device comprises a stop fixed to the cylinder of the advance ram, and an adjustable stop member which is mounted on the side wall of one of the floor girders.

Mineral mining installation

A cutting (winning) machine comprises a frame which is provided with a pair of endless drive tracks. A mast is pivotally mounted on the frame for movement between an upright working position and a non-working position (in which it lies substantially flat on the frame). The frame also supports a platform, which is also pivotal relative thereto in the vertical plane. A carriage is arranged to move along the mast, the carriage supporting a cutting head such as a shearer drum. The mast can be positioned in an upright position at either end of the frame, so that the machine can carry out work in both directions of travel.

Cutting machine

A mobile mine roof support assembly has three mine roof support units coupled together by a common transverse beam. Roller devices are mounted beneath the floor sills of the support units. The roller devices are spring biased away from their floor sills so that they can lift the floor sills away from the floor of a working when the assembly is to be moved. At least one roller device of each support unit is a steerable roller device so that the assembly can be steered round bends. Each steerable roller device is pivotally mounted on its floor sill about a vertical axis, and is provided with an associated steering device. The steerable roller devices are preferably coupled together by means of a common steering device.

Mine roof support assembly

A mine roof support has a goaf shield with a lemniscate guide system linking the shield to floor-engaging skids. A walking-mechanism is disposed in a channel between the floor skids. In order to prevent rubble or goaf material from penetrating into the channel the guides of the lemniscate system have connections which are spaced one above the other and to which one or several screen plates can be removably and replaceably attached with the aid of push-in locking-bars. The screen plates also advantageously serve to keep the floor skids apart by a minimum distance to prevent jamming of the walking mechanism.

Mine roof supports

A mine roof support has a main roof bar which is pivotably connected to an auxiliary forwardly-extendible bar. At least one piston and cylinder unit serves to swing the auxiliary bar about the main bar to bring the auxiliary bar into a roof-contacting position aligned with the main bar or into a stowed position beneath the main bar or into some intermediate position. One or more pivotable guide levers connect the auxiliary bar to the piston and cylinder unit. A guide member is also connected to the unit and slidably locates in longitudinal guideways formed in ribs or the like at the underside of the main roof bar.

A mineral mining installation comprises a mine roof support assembly and apparatus for drilling bores. The roof support assembly comprises a plurality of roof support units positioned side-by-side, and the drilling apparatus comprises a drilling device which is movably guided on a track associated with the roof support assembly. Each of the roof support units has at least one roof bar. The track is arranged on the underneath sides of the roof bars of the roof support units. The drilling device is pivotally mounted on a trolley which is movably guided on the track.

Drilling apparatus

A mine roof support unit has a mechanism for adjusting the angular position of an auxiliary cap relative to a main cap, the auxiliary cap and the main cap forming the roof cap of the mine roof support unit. The auxiliary cap is connected to the main cap by a first pivot joint. The cap-positioning mechanism comprises a hydraulic ram and a lever acting between the main cap and the auxiliary cap. The auxiliary cap is provided with an extension arm projecting from the first pivot joint towards the main cap. One end portion of the lever is connected to the arm by a second pivot joint, and the other end of the lever is connected to a block attached to the piston rod of the ram by a third pivot joint. The cylinder of the ram is attached to the main cap.

Cap positioning mechanism

A longwall mineral mining installation has a conveyor and a plurality of roof support units positioned side-by-side on the goaf side of the conveyor. Each roof support unit has a roof shield having an advanceable shield extension. Each unit has a first hydraulic ram for extending its shield extension, and a second hydraulic ram for advancing the conveyor. The extension of each first ram is controlled in dependence upon the retraction of one of the second rams (either the second ram of the same unit or that of an adjacent unit). This control is effected by controlling the supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid to the first rams. In one embodiment this is carried out by a control valve which has a spring-loaded plunger which engages with a series of equispaced cams on the movable cylinder of the associated second ram. In another embodiment, the piston rods of the rams are provided with series of equispaced magnets. The cylinders of the rams are provided with sensors, which sense the magnets and generate control signals. A control box is provided to direct the control signals to control valves associated with the rams, so that the first rams are extended by the same distance as that through which the second rams are retracted.

A mineral mining installation comprises a longwall conveyor, and a plurality of roof support units positioned side-by-side along the goaf side of the conveyor. The roof support units are positioned to define an access area between the conveyor and the roof support units. A plurality of hydraulic bracing rams act on the conveyor to brace the conveyor longitudinally. Each of the bracing rams is pivotally attached to a floor sill of a respective roof support unit. The hydraulic bracing rams are positioned at the goaf-side edge portion of the access area. The bracing forces are transmitted from the bracing rams to the conveyor via respective transverse arms attached to the bracing rams and to the conveyor.

A mine roof support unit is constituted by two detachably connected parts. Each of the parts has a floor girder which supports a roof bar by means of a hydraulic prop. The roof support unit is intended for use at the lower end of an inclined longwall working which meets its access gallery at an angle other than 90.degree.. The detachability of the two parts enables one of these parts to be removed from the working as its face is advanced. The removed part can then be transported to the other end of the working. Each of the parts is provided with means for detachably connecting an advance mechanism.

Two part mine roof support unit

A hydraulic control system, particularly for controlling the operation of roof support props of a mine working, employs control devices operated manually to feed pressure fluid to the working chambers of the props to effect extension or retraction thereof. A two-state valve device is operated when the props are extended to ensure that the correct setting pressure is established. This valve device has a control piston which is actuated to cause the device to establish independent connection between the main fluid pressure line and the associated working chambers of the props charged with fluid by the initial operation of the control devices. The connection established by the valve device is maintained even if the control devices break connection between the chambers and the pressure line. When the correct setting pressure is reached, a further control piston of the valve device is actuated to break the connection established by the valve device ready for the next operative cycle.

Hydraulic control systems for mining apparatus

A roof support assembly is constituted by a plurality of roof support units and a plurality of advance mechanisms. The units are positioned side-by-side along a longwall face of a mineral mining working. Each advance mechanism comprises a pair of generally parallel hydraulic advance rams and a guide rod system constituted by a pair of resilient generally parallel guide rods. Each guide rod system is attached, at one end, to a conveyor extending along the longwall face. The other end of each guide rod of each advance mechanism is attached to a respective slide piece which is slidably guided on a respective guide rail which is attached to a respective floor girder of a roof support unit. The slide pieces are attached to the piston rods of the hydraulic advance rams. The cylinders of the hydraulic advance rams are attached to one of the adjacent floor girders, and the slide piece attached to the piston rod of hydraulic advance ram is attached to the guide rod system. The slide piece attached to the piston rod of the hydraulic advance ram is attached to the other floor girder.

Advance mechanism for a mine roof support assembly

A shearer-type mineral winning machine has rotatable cutting drums supported by swinging arms at the ends of its main body. High-pressure water emission nozzles are supported by adjustable carriers in positions generally adjacent the drums to effect preliminary cuts in a mineral face just in advance of the cutting drums.

Longwall mineral winning machine with adjustable cutting jet

A longwall mineral mining installation comprises a scraper-chain conveyor having a scraper assembly, a first straight conveyor portion extending along the longwall working, a second straight conveyor portion extending along a roadway positioned at one end of the longwall working, and a curved conveyor section connecting the two straight conveyor portions. A guide assembly is provided for guiding the scraper assembly around the curved conveyor section. A guide is fixed to the face side of the first straight conveyor portion, and a winning machine is reciprocable along the guide. A drive station is mounted on the goaf side of the first straight conveyor portion in the region of the curved conveyor section. A drive sprocket is rotatably mounted on the face side of the first straight conveyor portion in said region. The drive sprocket drives the winning machine via a drive chain. A drive shaft drivably connects the drive station and the drive sprocket. The drive station includes a drive motor whose axis of rotation is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the first straight conveyor portion, and the guide is angled away from the first straight conveyor portion in said region.

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