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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1977
Shigeo Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Hajime Endo, Kushiro, JP;
Taiheiyo Engineering Incorporated, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Apparatus for drawing shearers comprises a conveyor on which the shearers move with sledges interposed therebetween and which is arranged along a long-walled pit face of a coal mine shearers drawing cable is arranged in fixing members which are arranged on the conveyor, and a pair of means are provided for releasing and fixing the cable from and into the fixing members, the means being arranged adjacent to the sledges and the cable located between the cable releasing and fixing means being engaged with a cable driving means housed in each of the shearer bodies, wherein a drawing force is applied only to the cable located between the cable releasing and fixing means when the driving means is rendered operative.