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US 9,089,939 B2Granted
Drilling unit with automatic drill shaft feeding, and method and means thereto
AssigneeAtlas Copco Industrial Technique Aktiebolag
InventorsUlf Mikael Eriksson, Wilhelm Mattias Jacobsson
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Abstract
A drilling unit with automatic drill shaft feeding is provided. The feeding velocity can be changed by external mounting of exchangeable gearing cassettes having a desired gear ratio.
Claims4
A set comprising:
- A plurality of exchangeable gearing cassettes with different gear ratios for changing a drill shaft rotation velocity of a gearbox in a drilling unit, wherein said gearbox is provided with an output coupling part and an input coupling part,
- wherein each of said cassettes is detachably mountable on an outside of said gearbox, and
- wherein each of said cassettes comprises:
- a housing;
- at least two meshed gearings with a certain gear ratio which are provided in said housing;
- an input coupling part and an output coupling part which are each connected to respective ones of said gearings;
- and
- interconnecting means for connecting said input coupling part of said cassette directly to said output coupling part of said gearbox, and for connecting said output coupling part of said cassette directly to said input coupling part of said gearbox, for adapting a total gear ratio of said gearbox to a given unit application;
- wherein said gearings are provided in said housing of said cassette such that said gearings are removed from the gearbox together with said housing of said cassette when said cassette is detached from the gearbox.
6 more elements
A drilling unit comprising:
- a motor;
- a drilling shaft;
- a gearbox coupling the motor to the drilling shaft, wherein the gearbox comprises an output coupling part and an input coupling part;
- and
- a gearing cassette which is mounted to an outside of the gearbox, wherein said gearing cassette comprises a housing and a gearing with a certain gear ratio which is provided in said housing, and said gearing cassette is arranged to connect said output coupling part of said gearbox to said input coupling part of said gearbox;
- wherein said gearing cassette is detachable from the outside of the gearbox, and wherein said gearing is provided in said housing of said gearing cassette such that said gearing is removed from the gearbox together with said housing of said gearing cassette when said gearing cassette is detached from the gearbox, and
- wherein said gearing cassette comprises one of a number of exchangeable gearing cassettes with different gear ratios for adapting a total gear ratio of the gearbox to different unit applications.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.