Klockner-becorit Gmbh

Dbt Automation Gmbh

Kloeckner-becorit Gmbh

Willy Watermann

Wilfried Weigel

Walter Von Der Linden

Winfried Hachenberg

Heinz-Gerd Schlutz

Herman-Josef Schulze-Heiming

Udo Hofmann

According to the invention, monitoring the load on hydraulic powered shield supports in underground use is performed by using the controller (13) serving for extraction control, which is equipped with microelectronics for load monitoring and load control, the components of the powered shield support being assigned sensors (14 to 18) whose electric measured values are used by the controller (13) for evaluating the measured signals and for driving the hydraulic rams (6, 7) and/or the angle cylinder (11) assigned to the powered shield support. The load control is preferably designed here in such a way that the critical load situations 'one-sided loading' and/or 'tip-toeing' are detected as early as during the setting operation, with the aid of appropriate sensors, and are rendered non-damaging in their effect by appropriately driving the hydraulic rams and/or the angle cylinder.

Method and device for monitoring the load on hydraulic powered shield

A method and device is provided for the moving of a shield-type support trestle 1 having stamps 4, 5 arranged between a roof pressure cap 3 and a lying skid 2, a pushing ram 6 is in the lying skid 2, and control valves 11, 12, 13, 14 for controlling the desired functions of the shield-type support trestle 1. The stamps 4, 5 have an inlet valve 22 and a discharge valve 4. A pressure line 40 is provided between control valve 13 and the pushing ram 6. A valve 51 is provided which is controlled by the pressure in the pressure line 40 and by which interconnects stamp pressure chambers. A manometric switch 48 is arranged on the pressure line 40 and activates an electronic control device 42. In lines 53, 55, and 29 between the stamp pressure chambers and the return line 18, an unlockable reflux valve 54 is provided which is actuated through the electronic control device 42 and the discharge valve 24. This device allows the trestle to be moved with a constant support pressure in spite of varying surface conditions in a mine.

Method and device for moving a shield-type support trestle

A roof cap assembly of a roof support mechanism includes a main cap having extension bearing portions at its front end, a forward cap which is pivotally attached at its rear end to the extension bearing portions of the main cap, and two supporting cylinders connected between the main cap and the forward cap at spaced apart locations across their widths and so as not to extend therebelow. The supporting cylinders include a housing containing twin pistons and an adjustable pressure transmitter is provided for each supporting cylinder and is constructed to increase the pressure in the pressure chambers therein when the pressure of the pressure medium supplied thereto exceeds a minimum set value.

Roof cap assembly with supporting cylinders for roof support mechanism

A foot element of an adjustable roof support mechanism includes side walls that have aligned guide grooves in their facing surfaces and a spherical bearing surface in a floor portion therebetween. The guide grooves include inclined entry portions and enlarged terminal portions. A cooperable, extendable strut element includes a tubular body having a spherical lower end and two cams extending away from opposite sides near its lower end. The cams are shaped so as to fit within the guide grooves of the foot element. When attaching the strut element to the foot element the cams thereof are moved along the entry portions of the aligned guide grooves and into the terminal portions thereof. Thereafter, the strut is rotated into a use position. When in its use position, the cams cannot be removed from the terminal portions of the guide grooves, thus preventing unintentional separation of the strut element and the foot element.

Foot element and cooperable strut element for use in a roof support

In a roof-shield support system employed in mines, at least two levelling rams each acting between a shield frame unit and an associated gap-seal plate, the latter being arranged so as to be slidable relative to the associated shield frame unit. Each levelling ram comprises a cylinder, piston and piston rod, is arranged so that the piston rod has a longitudinal bore which is open at the piston end of the piston rod, and an elongated rod which is sealed relative to the piston rod being disposed within said bore. The bore is in use in communication with a hydraulic fluid system of the ram and after levelling has occurred by actuation of the ram the pressurized hydraulic fluid admitted into the bore applies a force to the associated gap-seal plate so as to ensure its continuing tight engagement with the adjacent shield frame unit.

Levelling ram for roof-shield mine support systems

A shield-type support frame for serving as a face support in underground mining operations having a bottom structure, a one-piece roof cap, at least one hydraulic plunger connecting the bottom structure and the roof cap and two shield elements arranged side by side, which can be adjusted in height separately and which are each pivotally connected to the bottom structure and the roof cap. Joint connections between each shield element and the roof cap permit tilting of the roof cap relative to the shield elements about axes extending in the forward direction. In such a shield-type support frame, the roof cap is guided better in the forward direction and tilting of the roof cap about a vertical axis is prevented by the joint connections between the shield elements and the roof cap each having a hinge connection with two hinge pins of which the one extends in the face length direction and the other in the forward direction, where the roof cap is supported by the hinge pins extending in the forward direction and the shield elements by the hinge pins extending in the face length direction.

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