Equipment for laying elongate material
AssigneeCoal Industry (Patents) Limited
InventorsBrian W. Cartledge, Barry Millhouse, Michael E. Cheese
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Abstract
Equipment for laying a layer of elongate material adjacent to a newly exposed rock or mineral surface in an underground mine which is formed by a mining machine cutter as the machine traverses along a working face comprising a support bracket secured to the mining machine and defining a slideway along which a slide member can slide in a direction transverse to the direction of machine traverse, the slide member being provided with support arm means for supporting a coil of elongate material.
Claims10
Equipment for laying a layer of elongate material adjacent to a newly exposed rock or mineral surface formed by a mining machine cutter as the machine traverses along a working face, comprising a support bracket for fixed attachment to the mining machine, the support bracket providing a horizontally extending slideway, a slide component slidable along the slideway for movement transverse to the direction of machine traverse, securing means for fixing the position of the slide component along the slideway, support arm means extending from the slide component, the support arm means constituting storage means for a coil of elongate material such that in use as the machine traverses along the working face the elongate material is unwound from the coil and laid adjacent to the newly exposed rock or mineral surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.