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AssigneeWirtgen GmbH
InventorsWinfried von Schoenebeck, Joerg Berges, Peter Berghoff, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani, Guenter Haehn
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In a drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine for working off milled material movable in a working direction, said working drum being provided with tools and rotating about a drum axis, with a housing shell that at least partially encloses the circumference of the working drum, and with at least one monitoring device arranged radially outside of the housing shell, said monitoring device inspecting the condition of the working drum or of the tools thereof, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: at least one inspection opening for each monitoring device is arranged in the housing shell, and a partial flow of the milled material passes through the at least one inspection opening during the milling operation and guiding devices conduct the partial flow, in radial direction behind the housing shell, in front of or behind the working drum as seen in the working direction.
A drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or a mining machine for milling material, the machine being movable in a working direction, the working drum being provided with tools and rotating in a direction of rotation about a drum axis, the drum housing comprising:
A method of monitoring a condition of a working drum of a construction machine or a mining machine movable in a working direction, or of tools of the working drum arranged on a circumference of the working drum, the machine including a drum housing having a housing shell at least partially enclosing a circumference of the working drum, the housing shell including at least one inspection opening, the method comprising:
A construction machine or mining machine, comprising:
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine, said working drum being provided with tools and rotating about a drum axis with a specified direction of rotation, a construction machine or mining machine with such drum housing, as well as a method for monitoring the condition of a working drum of a construction machine/mining machine or of the tools thereof arranged on the circumference of the working drum by measuring the condition of the working drum or of the tools thereof by means of a monitoring device.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The following is shown:
FIG. 1 an example of a construction machine in the design of a surface miner,
FIG. 2 a drum housing with monitoring device in accordance with prior art,
FIG. 1 shows an example of a construction machine 2 in the design of a surface miner for the milling of ground surfaces or traffic surfaces. The surface miner comprises a chassis with, for example, four tracked ground-engaging units 7, said chassis supporting the machine frame 3 of the surface miner. It is understood that, in the case of road milling machines, soil stabilizers and recyclers, the tracked ground-engaging units 7 may be substituted wholly or in part by wheeled ground-engaging units.
A working drum 8 rotating about a drum axis 6 is supported in the machine frame 3 in the design of a milling drum fitted with tools 4, said working drum 8 extending transversely to the working direction 48 of the construction machine 2. The working drum 8 is partially enclosed by a drum housing 1. Adjustment of the milling depth is preferably effected by means of the height adjustment 11 of the tracked ground-engaging units 7 but may also be effected by means of a height-adjustable working drum 8.
It is understood that the construction machine 2 with a working drum 8 and drum housing 1 may also consist of other machines, such as road milling machines, soil stabilizers, cold recyclers, recycling machines.