Drum cutter mining machine
A drum cutter mining machine includes a machine frame with a winch having a drive wheel to engage a rack or chain which extends along the path of travel by the mining machine to propel the machine along a mine face. The mining machine is made up of discrete units which include a machine body and machine housings joined to opposite sides of the machine body. The winch is either coupled through a drive train with a feed drive motor or coupled to the drive motor for cutter drums. The machine housings each support a pivot shaft coupled by an arm to a drum cutter. One of these housings includes a removable end cover and a recess adapted to receive a support housing for a spur gear system used to transmit torque from a feed drive motor to a reduction gear system which is, in turn, coupled to the drive wheel of the winch. In one embodiment, a removable end cover on the machine housing provides access to the feed drive motor. The feed drive motor is arranged so that the rotational axis of its drive output shaft extends transversely to the stow side of the machine frame. In another embodiment, the reduction gear system is arranged at one side of the pivot shaft for the cutter drum while the drive motor therefor is arranged at the other side of the pivot shaft and coupled thereto through the spur gear system. In a further embodiment, the reduction gear system is disposed between the feed motor and the pivot shaft.
- Assignee:
- Gebr Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik Und Eisengiesserei (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4189188
- OSTI ID:
- 5709329
- Resource Relation:
- Patent Priority Date: Priority date 16 Sep 1977, German, Federal Republic of (F.R. Germany); Other Information: PAT-APPL-940799
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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