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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian E Travis, Hampton, GA (US);
Assignee:
The Tensar Corporation, Morrow, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
405296 ; 299 12 ; 299 33 ; 4053023 ;
Abstract
A grid composite for protecting men and longwall mining equipment during longwall shield recovery includes a regular polymer geogrid structure formed by biaxially drawing a continuous sheet of select polypropylene material which is heat bonded to a polyester fabric. The grid composite is secured over caving shields of longwall mining equipment during a longwall mining operation.