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7431401 Slide shoe for mining winning machine  
A slide shoe for a mining winning machine is disclosed. The slide shoe includes a slide shoe body attached to the mining winning machine, a sliding area located on the slide shoe body and including...
7360844 Geosteering detectors for boring-type continuous miners  
The invention provides, in one embodiment, a detector for a miner comprising a gamma sensing element and a light sensing element coupled to the gamma sensing element. According to the embodiment,...
6296317 Vision-based motion sensor for mining machine control  
A mining machine having a position sensing and control apparatus is claimed. The mining machine has a vehicle body having forward and rearward ends and movable along a mine floor. A cutter head is...
6257671 Device for protecting selective cutting machines against overload  
The invention relates to a device for protecting selective cutting machines against overload, in which the selective cutting machine has cutting tools, in particular cutting rollers, rotatably...
6203111 Miner guidance using laser and image analysis  
A mining machine comprising a vehicle body having forward and rearward ends, the vehicle body being movable along a mine floor, a cutter head mounted on the forward end of the vehicle body, and a...
6062650 Continuous control system for a mining or tunnelling machine  
A continuous control system for a mining or tunnelling machine having a boom (12) with a motor driven cutting head (14) at one of its ends and a rotatable turret (20) at the other end, the control...
5938288 Automatic control system and method for a machine used for excavating drifts, tunnels, stopes, or caverns  
An automatic control of the operation of a machine used for excavating drifts, tunnels, stopes, caverns or the like of a predetermined profile having a rotatable head (10) and cutting arms (14, 16)...
5501548 Method for controlling the direction of a shield tunneling machine and an apparatus therefor  
When a shield tunneling machine is deviated from the scheduled line while being propelled, the deviation of the shield tunneling machine from the scheduled line is detected and according to the...
5310249 Method and apparatus for automatically controlling a mining machine  
Mining apparatus is disclosed in which a cutting wheel supporting a plurality of roller-cutters rotates about a horizontal axis and is supported on a slewing boom for cutting a tunnel with a flat...
5293944 Method of automatically controlling impact ripper  
An impact ripper (2) mounted on the rear portion of a construction machine, such as a bulldozer (1), for digging a hard soil layer is automatically controlled to reduce the operator's fatigue, to...
5186579 Apparatus for controlling direction of underground excavator  
According to the present invention, there is disclosed an apparatus for controlling the direction of displacement of an underground excavator including a turnable jack to perform excavating...
5161857 Teleoperated control system for underground room and pillar mining  
A teleoperated mining system is provided for remotely controlling the various machines involved with thin seam mining. A thin seam continuous miner located at a mining face includes a camera...
5158583 Installation for the remote cleaning by degradation of a surface in a hostile medium with waste recovery and treatment  
In order to clean a surface (A) located in a hostile medium, use is made of a bush hammer (34) mounted on a remotely controlled vehicle (32). The waste produced by the bush hammer (34) is directly...
5110187 Apparatus for the mining of mineral matter, especially coal  
A mining apparatus of the type in which a mining machine excavates a mining face, especially a coal face in a subterranean mining application, and has a plurality of emitters of electromagnetic...
4979575 Method of drilling a hole-in a rock  
A method and an arrangement for drilling a hole in a rock (6), wherein a preliminary hole is drilled first, whereafter the drilling is interrupted. Joints between a drill boom (2) and a feeding...
4848485 Method of and an arrangement for controlling rock drilling  
A method of and an arrangement for controlling rock drilling when a feeding beam (3) is displaced so that the forward end thereof makes contact with a rock surface to be drilled. The arrangement...
4770469 Process for controlling the movement of a universally swivellable cutting arm of a partial cut cutting machine as well as apparatus for performing this process  
A method and apparatus for controlling the movement of a universally swivellable cutting arm of a partial cut cutting machine of the kind including a first hydraulic drive for lifting and lowering...
4760513 Resultant velocity control for members capable of being driven in two component directions simultaneously  
A method of and apparatus for controlling the resultant velocity of a member is provided, the resultant velocity being derived by driving the member in two component directions, simultaneously....
4721340 Process for controlling the movement of an universally swivellable cutting arm as well as control device for performing this process  
A process for controlling the movement of a universally swivellable cutting arm of a partial cut, cutting machine, comprising a first hydraulic drive for lifting and lowering the cutting arm, and a...
4688937 Methods of, and systems, for monitoring and/or controlling mobile cutting means  
A system serves to establish the spatial positions of a cutter head of a tunnel driving machine with precision and monitors and/or controls this position automatically. The system uses a...
4591209 Protecting device for partial-cut cutting machines  
For protecting partial-cut cutting machines from overload, a vibration sensor 7 is provided on the swivellable cutting arm 2 carrying rotatably supported cutting heads 6. The signals of the...
4556257 Horizontal edna miner  
A mining machine is utilized for making original generally horizontal bores in coal steams, and for enlarging preexisting bores. A single cutting head is mounted for rotation about a first...
4506745 Method and means for drilling in rocks  
A method of drilling long and straight holes in rocks is based on the use of a drill rig which may be aligned by means of a laser beam and which comprises a hollow drill stem with a pressure device...
4465155 Automated operatorless vehicles  
A vehicle guidance control system is described for an operatorless vehicle comprising a sensor for determining the presence of defined points along a selected path that the vehicle is to travel, a...
RE31622 Mining machine having rectangular thrust transmitting conveyor column  
A mining machine comprises a laterally elongated cutting head including ms for cutting an earth formation, a laterally elongated thrust transmitting column connected to and extending rearwardly...
4351564 Device for preventing collision between part of the cutting arm and part of the loading ramp for a cutting machine  
The device for preventing a collision between a part of the cutting arm (1) and a part of the loading ramp (4) comprises transmitter means (11, 12) designed as hydraulic...
4345839 Device for controlling the position of a drift advancing machine  
In apparatus for controlling the position of a drift advancing machine having a longitudinal axis: two light beam sources or laser beam sources spaced longitudinally from the machine, the sources...
4323280 Remote controlled high wall coal mining system  
A high wall mining system including a continuous mining machine, a remote control station outwardly of the high wall from which extend electric cables wound on cable reels which extend to the...
4322113 Excavating machines for excavating rock and minerals having first and second alternative modes of control  
A excavating machine for excavating rock and minerals from a working face having a carriage with a boom support. A cutter carrying boom is moveably supported by the boom support, and a means is...
4281876 Televised remote control system of a continuous mining machine  
A method of recovering particulate material from a seam of such material within the earth bounded above and below by different material which comprises the steps of positioning in mining relation...
4261617 Method of controlling the working motion of a cutting tool of a tunnel-driving machine over the breast, and apparatus for carrying out the method  
A method of controlling the working motion of a cutting tool of a tunnel-driving machine over the breast, wherein the actual position of the cutting tool is ascertained in consideration of the...
4192551 Remote control system for mining machines  
An intrinsically safe system controls all miner hydraulic and electrical functions from a hand held miner remote control pendant. Pendant control devices provide on/off control signals to...
3891039 Method and device for drilling to a predetermined surface  
A method and a device for rock-drilling and/or earth boring of a number of drill-holes to a predetermined bottom surface are disclosed in which a reference surface defined by electro-magnetic...
3778106 CONTROL MECHANISM FOR ROCK CUTTING EQUIPMENT  
This invention relates to the control of the speed of traverse of a rock cutting machine utilizing an operating head in the form of a rotor carrying swinging hammers. The control is effected by...
3560753 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE DISPLACEMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT GUIDED ALONG A DESIRED COURSE BY A LASER BEAM  
In a method for determining the displacement of a construction equipment, to be guided along a desired course by a laser beam, the laser beam is so deflected, depending upon the route to be...
3554301 OPTICAL AUGER GUIDANCE SYSTEM  
Signals indicative of the bending of an elongated rotating member are generated by a light sensitive detector mounted within the member and off-axis with respect to a circular light beam generator....
3522670 APPARATUS FOR UNDERWATER MINING  
3520573 EXCAVATOR APPARATUS  
3437377 AUTOMATIC DEVICE FOR COUNTERBALANCING REACTION FORCES OF A BORE MINE MACHINE  
3435928 AUXILIARY DRIVE UNIT TO ALIGN AUGER DRIVE SOCKET WITH AUGER PIN IN MINING ASSEMBLY  
3397651 Means for steering an unattended vehicle along a trench  
3354660 Cable layer  
3333894 Mining machine having cutter arms oscillated in opposite directions and in phase  
3333895 Mining machine having synchronized oscillating cutter heads  
3323839 Cutting apparatus having speed and load controlled hydraulic drive  
3322465 Guidance systems for continuous mining machinery  
3302974 Ripper type mining machine having oppositely moving oscillating ripper heads  
3282627 Hydraulic tilt limiting control for continuous miner  
3235311 Vibratory cutter means for mining machines  
3232668 Continuous mining machine and control system therefor  
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