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Drive station for an underground plough system and method for repairing recovery ploughs

US8276990B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH · DE

Inventors

Adam Klabisch · Dortmund, DE
Klaus Duhnke · Bochum, DE
Norbert Hesse · Bochum, DE
Gerhard Siepenkort · Ascheberg, DE
Diedrich Bettermann · Unna, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 20, 2008
Grant date	Oct 2, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 24, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
CPC primaryE21C29/14
WIPO fieldCivil engineering
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The invention relates to a drive station for an underground plough system, in particular a coal plough system, with a machine frame to which a plough box can be fastened, and with a wedge trough which is connected to the machine frame and is provided with a plough guide device, which has chain channels for a plough chain, and also a plough end stop on a runout section for a winning plough. In order to facilitate the repair of a winning plough, the plough end stop is formed on an attachment which can be dismantled, when the plough guide device is mounted, to produce a repair section in the longwall-gallery transition of the wedge trough. The invention also relates to a repair method in which the plough end stop is dismantled and the winning plough is moved into the repair section.

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