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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
Timothy D. Burgess, South Point, OH (US);
William G. Kendall, Jr., Spanish Fork, UT (US);
David L. Morris, Huntington, WV (US);
Steven Payne, Portsmouth, OH (US);
Timothy D. Burgess, South Point, OH (US);
William G. Kendall, Jr., Spanish Fork, UT (US);
David L. Morris, Huntington, WV (US);
Steven Payne, Portsmouth, OH (US);
J.H. Fletcher & Co., Huntington, WV (US);
Abstract
A drilling or bolting unit for selective use with either a vehicle or a panline of a face conveyor associated with a longwall miner or mining machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, the unit comprises a base adapted for engaging the panline and a plurality of receivers. Each receiver may be adapted for receiving one of the pair of forks of the vehicle, such that the unit may be used as either a panline drilling or bolting unit or as a utility drilling or bolting unit with the vehicle apart from the panline. Related methods are also described.