Stud Installation
AssigneeWeir Minerals Netherlands B.V.
InventorsSander Artz, Dennis Geutjes, Bram Steijn
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Abstract
A method and machine (10) for stud installation are described. The machine comprises: a support arrangement (20) configured to support a tyre (14) and a shaft (12) on which the tyre is mounted for angular displacement about a longitudinal axis of rotation, and a stud insertion arrangement (22), at least part of which is displaceable relative to a tyre supported on the support arrangement, and which is configured to insert studs into holes in the tyre.
Claims15
A stud installation machine for installing studs in a tyre of an HPGR, which machine includes:
- (i) a support arrangement configured to support a tyre and a shaft on which the tyre is mounted for angular displacement about a longitudinal axis of rotation;
- (ii) a stud insertion arrangement, at least part of which is displaceable relative to a tyre supported on the support arrangement, and which is configured to insert studs into holes in the tyre;
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- (iii) further comprising an adhesive dispensing arrangement, at least part of which is displaceable relative to a tyre supported on the support arrangement, and which is configured to dispense adhesive into holes in the tyre before studs are inserted into the holes.
(canceled)
A method of installing studs on a roller of an HPGR comprising the steps of:
- (i) applying adhesive in a radially extending stud receiving hole in a tyre of the roller;
- (ii) feeding a stud from a supply of studs into an insertion position in which the stud is radially spaced from and aligned with a radially extending stud receiving hole;
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- (iii) displacing the stud by means of a stud displacement mechanism to insert at least an operatively inner end portion of the stud into the associated hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.