Drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine, construction machine or mining machine, as well as method for monitoring the condition of a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine

US9175448B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Wirtgen GmbH

Inventors

• Winfried von Schoenebeck · Kalenborn, DE
• Joerg Berges · Hennef (Sieg), DE
• Peter Berghoff · Bad Honnef, DE
• Stefan Wagner · Bad Honnef, DE
• Cyrus Barlmani · Rübhausen, DE
• Günter Hähn · Rübhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 3, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 25, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N3/58
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine, the working drum being provided with tools and rotating about a drum axis, with a housing shell which at least partially encloses the circumference of the working drum, and with at least one inspection opening for a monitoring device arranged in the housing shell, wherein the monitoring device inspects the condition of the working drum or the tools thereof, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: a closing mechanism is arranged on the outside of the housing shell, the closing mechanism enabling closure of the at least one inspection opening.