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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 1994
Filed:
May. 29, 1992
Guy Geuns, Wuppertal, DE;
Werner Reinelt, Bochum, DE;
Hermann Hemscheidt Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Wuppertal, DE;
Abstract
A method of working coal seams to a defined preset cutting depth during ploughing with a cutter, a face conveyor moving along a face behind the cutter being advanced by the defined preset cutting depth and this advance being made by extension of self-advancing cylinders pivotally attached at one end to the face conveyor and at the other end to face supports disposed parallel to the face conveyor. The advance is controlled in dependence upon the piston stroke of the self-advancing cylinders, carried out in dependence upon individually defined partial strokes corresponding to the preset depth of cutting. After a predetermined maximum total piston stroke has been reached, the face support connected to the respective self-advancing cylinder is automatically disengaged, advanced by the maximum total piston stroke and then re-set (self-advancing process). The length of the partial strokes corresponding to the preset depth of cutting is increased by an amount to compensate an average mechanical clearance at the pivot points of the self-advancing cylinders.