Mobile mining machine and method for driving tunnels, roadways or shafts, in particular in hard rock

US9068453B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jan Rohwer · Dortmund, DE
• Jens Steinberg · Hattingen, DE
• Joachim Raschka · Bochum, DE
• Frank Herrmann · Barmstedt, DE
• Christian Schreiter · Drebach, DE
• Ulrich Bechem · Hagen, DE
• Oliver Kortmann · Werne, DE
• Johannes Krings · Ascheberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 2012
• Grant date: Jun 30, 2015
• Expiry date: Apr 24, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E21D9/1093
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A mobile mining machine includes a movable machine base frame having a boom, a swinging device for swinging the boom, and a tilting device for tilting the boom. At least one tool drum is coupled to the boom for rotation about a drum axis and rotatable tool carriers are arranged on a circumference of the tool drum. The boom has a supporting arm, on which the tool drum is mounted, and a separate swinging base, which is swingable about a swing axis in relation to the machine base frame by the swinging device. The supporting arm and the swinging base are connected to one another by a system of guide bars, by way of which a setting angle of the drum axis in relation to the swing axis is adjustable.