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US 2020/0091967 A1Published application
Coal tracker
AssigneeJRL Coal, Inc.
InventorWilliam Quintrell
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Abstract
A system to process and handle minerals, aggregates, or ore during mining operations in a way that automatically collects, carries and transmits data about the product being mined. When mining coal, the system has a loader with a tag writer and coal loadable trucks with beds having read and writeable electronic tags mounted externally.
Claims10
A combination of coal transport vehicles comprises:
- a loader or loading device or machine with a control box, the control box having a tag reader/writer, GPS receiver, setting for method of extraction, loader identification;
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- a coal loadable truck, the truck comprising:
- a vehicle chassis and drive train;
- a bed for receiving and hauling coal;
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- a plurality of read/writable electronic tags mounted externally on the bed of the truck, each tag being readable and writable from a distance remotely, the plurality of tags being mounted in a defined pattern about the bed, wherein the defined pattern forms an array along each left and right side of the bed and a rear end of the bed.
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A method of mining coal comprises the steps of:
- inputting the GPS location of the coal into an electronic tag read/writer installed onto a loader;
- inputting the data onto the tag writer;
- mining the coal using a loader with the tag read/writer;
- loading the coal into a truck by approaching a bed of the truck with a plurality of read/writable electronic tags wherein one or more of the tags receives the data and GPS data from the loader when the loader approaches the bed of the truck loading the truck;
- optionally driving the truck to a weighing scale;
- weighing the truck with coal and electronically reading the tags sending the tag data to a central data control computer;
- dumping the coal;
- reweighing the unloaded truck to establish the coal weight;
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- wherein all the tag data is transmitted automatically to the central data center.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.