Monitoring wear assembles, systems, and methods for mining equipment
AssigneeCarriere Industrial Supply Limited
InventorPierre R. Levesque
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Abstract
A monitoring system for monitoring wear and usage along a portion of a wear surface for earth moving equipment includes a monitoring assembly to detect a characteristic pertaining to wear or usage in a wear part for excavating equipment and transmit the detected characteristic as information, wherein the monitoring assembly includes a bolt having a standard head, a coupling nut that captures the bolt on one end, a spacer secured to the top of the head, and a sensor probe having an elongate structure that passes through both the bolt and the coupling nut and is captured by the coupling nut on an opposite end. The monitoring assembly being wirelessly able to communicate to a remote device to monitor wear.
Claims13
A monitoring assembly to detect a characteristic pertaining to wear or usage in a wear part for excavating equipment and transmit the detected characteristic as information, wherein the monitoring assembly includes
- a bolt having a head and a threaded body,
- a coupling nut that captures the bolt on one end of the coupling nut,
- a spacer secured to the top of the head, and
- a sensor probe having a threaded body and an elongate structure that passes through both the bolt and the coupling nut and the sensor probe is captured by the coupling nut on an opposite end of the coupling nut.
A method of monitoring wear in a surface of a wear liner for a chute, the method comprising:
- a. removing a bolt from a fastening location on the wear liner,
- b. inserting a bolt having a head and a spacer secured to the head into a bolt hole,
- c. securing the bolt and spacer combination to the wear liner with a coupling nut,
- d. inserting an elongate structure of a sensor probe into the bolt and spacer combination and through the coupling nut, ensuring a tip of the elongate structure is aligned with the wear liner surface that is subjugated to wear,
- e. securing the sensor probe to the coupling nut, and
- f. securing the spacer to a top of the bolt, wherein the spacer has a height that when combined with the bolt substantially aligns with the wear liner surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.