Gewerkschaft Eisenhutte Westfalia, Gmbh

Wolfgang Peters

Gerhard Merten

Alois Hauschopp

Christoph Rassmann

Willy Heyer

Hans-Dieter Schneider

A guide for mineral mining machines is composed of assemblies each secured to the mineral face side of a conveyor. The assemblies have angle plates secured to the side walls and structures formed with spacers separating upper and lower passages for a drive chain. Covers are detachably and pivotably mounted to the structures. The covers can be secured in a closed position covering the upper passage or swung outwardly to an open position on push-in hinge joints formed at their lower regions by interengaging components of the covers and the structures. The hinge joints have complementary projections and recesses which interengage when the covers are closed.

Guides for mineral mining machines

A conveyor and guide assembly comprises a conveyor and a plough guide attached to one side of the conveyor. The conveyor comprises a plurality of conveyor sections joined end-to-end, and the guide comprises a plurality of guide sections positioned end-to-end. Each guide section is associated with, and extends substantially along, a corresponding conveyor section. The guide section has a generally L-shaped guide plate and a ramp-like cover plate which define therebetween upper and lower chain ducts for receiving a plough drive chain. Each section of the cover plate is curved over at the top towards the guide plate thereby delimiting the upper portion of the upper chain duct. Each adjacent pair of cover plate sections overlap in a first zone which extends over at least the curved-over portions thereof. Each pair of adjacent sections of the guide plate overlap in a second zone which adjoins said first zone. The gap between each pair of adjacent guide plate sections is longitudinally off-set from the corresponding gap between adjacent conveyor sections in a third zone which is adjacent to said second zone.

Conveyor and guide assembly

A conveyor for use in mineral mining comprises a plurality of channel sections arranged end-to-end, and a guide disposed on one side of the channel sections for guiding a mining machine. The guide is constituted by a plurality of guide sections joined together by detachable connection means. Each guide section is attached to a respective channel section. The guide is provided with upper and lower channels separated by spacers, the channels receiving and guiding a chain for driving the mining machine. Each guide section is provided with a cover plate which is pivotally attached thereto for movement between a first position, in which it covers the guide channels, and a second position, in which the guide channels are accessible from said one side of the channel section. The detachable connection means associated with each adjacent pair of guide sections is constituted by recesses formed in adjacent spacers of that pair of guide sections, and a connector which mates with the recesses. The recesses are positioned to lie adjacent to the cover plates of that pair of guide sections when said cover plates are in that first position.

Mineral mining conveyor with guide connecting feature

A guide for a mineral winning or loading machine, such as a coal plough, is composed of assemblies secured to the mineral face side of a conveyor. The assemblies have angle plates with upstanding wall portions securable to the side walls of the conveyor and integral foot portions supporting the machine and resting on the floor of the mine working. Spacers separating upper and lower passages for guiding a drive chain are in turn secured to the wall portions of the angle plates and these passages are shielded by cover plates formed with ramp-like inclined guide surfaces for the machine. The cover plates are pivoted to the spacers at their lower regions so that they can be pivoted outwards to allow access to the passages therebehind. The cover plates are locked with releasable devices to the wall portions in their closed position and have recesses accommodating the spacers which have inclined surfaces forming continuations of the guide surfaces of the cover plates.

A guide for a mining machine, such as a plough, is constructed from a series of interconnected sections arranged end-to-end and secured with bolts to the mineral face side wall of a conveyor. Each guide section is composed of an L-shaped plate with an upstanding wall engaging on the conveyor side wall and an inclined foot wall supporting the body of the plough. Spacers locating the securing bolts separate upper and lower chain guide passages and a cover plate extends over the mineral face side of the passages. A slot is formed above the foot wall to allow the plough body to be coupled to the chain in the lower passage. The slot is defined at its upper side by channel-like strips assembled to the spacers and these strips have apertures which receive tongues on the cover plate to thereby form a detachable push-in hinge permitting the cover plate to pivot towards the mineral face. The cover plate is detachably secured to the L-shaped plate at its upper end.

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Selm, Germany

Wolfgang Peters