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US 2012/0234948 A1Published application
Power cable management system
AssigneeTerex USA, LLC
InventorEDWIN J. SAUSER
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Abstract
An articulating flexible overhead boom disposed on one aggregate processing plant and configured to pivot so as to hold a power cable connecting two adjacent aggregate processing plants at an elevation above the ground so as to permit walking and/or driving a vehicle between the adjacent plants while the connection power cable remains overhead.
Claims20
A mobile rock crushing and screening operation comprising:
- a mobile electrically powered machinery unit configured to be moved between sites and then be parked at a work site and then be coupled to a power source;
- wherein said mobile electrically powered machinery unit comprises one of a mobile rock crusher, and a mobile vibrating screen.
- an overhead repositionable boom disposed on said mobile electrically powered machinery unit, said boom being configured to support a power cable spanning a gap between another mobile electrically powered machinery unit;
- said booming being configured to pivot during set up and then both said boom and said power cable being configured to remain substantially static during operation of said mobile electrically powered machinery unit and during operation of said which is set for operation at said work site;
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A mobile aggregate processing system comprising:
- a rock crusher disposed on a vehicle and set up for operation at a first location and further comprising an electric motor;
- a pivoting boom coupled to said rock crusher, said boom configured to swing a free boom end away from said rock crusher and toward a distant mobile material processing unit so as to support a power cable, with a free cable end thereon, closer toward a connection point, such that said power cable is suspended from above and a ground path around said rock crusher is free of any power cables coupling said rock crusher and said vibrating screen.
A method for powering a plurality of mobile aggregate processing plants, the system comprising the steps of:
- providing a vibrating screen comprising an electric motor, said vibrating screen being mobile and configured for transporting between material processing sites;
- providing a source of power to said vibrating screen;
- providing a pivoting boom pivotally coupled overhead to said vibrating screen while being set up and positioned at a material processing site;
- providing an inter-aggregate processing plant power cable disposed on said pivoting boom and configured for coupling said vibrating screen with a mobile material processing plant at said material processing site;
- pivoting said pivoting boom from a stowed configuration where a distal free end of said pivoting boom moves from a point in closer proximity to said vibrating screen to a point further from said vibrating screen, thereby creating a substantially longitudinal power cable segment disposed overhead above an intersection of a ground path around each of said mobile material processing plant and said vibrating screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.