Apparatus for continuously conveying coal from a continuous miner to a remote floor conveyor

Patent · Tue Mar 03 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:7051813

Wilcox, Jr, A G; Shah, G

This patent describes an apparatus for use in conveying a supply of coal supplied by a machine working at a mine face to a spaced floor conveyor arranged to convey the coal away from the face of the type including cooperating elongated conveying means. Each has a coal receiving end and a coal discharging end in which the trailing one of the conveying means includes means for mounting the discharge end thereof on the floor conveyor (1) for longitudinal movement thereabove (2) for limited tilting movement with respect thereto and (3) for generally horizontal swinging movement with respect thereto so as to discharge the coal from the discharge end of the trailing conveying means onto the floor conveyor in any position of movement with respect thereto and means is provided for mounting the discharge end of an adjacent leading conveying means on the receiving end of the trailing conveying means (1) for longitudinal movement thereabove (2) for limiting tilting movement with respect thereto and (3) for generally horizontal swinging movement with respect thereto so as to discharge the coal from the discharge end of the adjacent leading conveying means onto the trailing conveying means in any position of movement with respect thereto. The improvement described here comprises: a mounting member extending in cantilever fashion from the receiving end of the trailing conveying means, a crawler unit disposed below the mounting chamber, the crawler unit including a frame structure, a pair of longitudinally coextensive parallel endless track assemblies connected with the frame structure, means for supporting the associated mounting member on the frame structure.

• Assignee: Fairchild, Inc., Beckley, WV
• Patent Number(s): US 4646906
• OSTI ID: 7051813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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