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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7934776 | Mining machine with driven disc cutters A mining machine includes a cutting mechanism with an arm, and a substantial weight of more than a thousand pounds attached to the arm. The mining machine also includes a first disc cutter adapted to engage the material to be mined and mounted on a first disc cutter... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7604301 | Dual axis grinder blender The dual axis grinder includes a support frame with a plate and a mast. The mast is connected to the boom of an excavator and to a hydraulic stick control cylinder. An auger tube is journaled in a bore through the support frame plate for rotation about a vertical ax... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7431402 | Rock boring device A rock boring device includes a rotary disc cutter. The disc cutter is driven in an oscillating manner and may be driven or free to nutate, and the device includes a mounting section for the rotary disc cutter and a driven section. The mounting section may be angula... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7363733 | Device and method for making a trench wall in the soil The invention relates to a device for making a trench wall in the soil comprising a frame, at least one lower cutting/mixing wheel arranged at the bottom of the frame, at least one further, upper cutting/mixing wheel arranged at the top of the frame, wherein the fra... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357458 | Boring rig A boring rig (14) for underground boring for excavating purposes and including a substructure (21, 22), a propulsion device, a stabilizing device (31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42), and a boring unit (20) having a cutter head (29) an... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7325882 | Rock cutting machine A rock cutting machine including a boom rotatably mounted at a proximal end to a chassis adapted to be placed adjacent a rock face to be cut. The boom extends from the chassis to a distal end adjacent the rock face. A longitudinal boom axis extends between the proxi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7182407 | Rock boring device with an oscillating and nutating rotary disc cutter A rock boring device (10) including a rotary disc cutter (11). The disc cutter (11) is driven in an oscillating manner and also driven or free to nutate, and the device includes a mounting section (22) for the rotary disc cutter and a dri... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7093906 | Floor scraping machine with floating blade A machine for scraping a floor covering from a floor has rear drive wheels and a forward blade assembly. Arms which each rotate independently on the frame at one end are connected to the blade assembly which independently rotate on their other ends. Thus, the blade ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7048340 | Method for introducing and blowing rock dust and device for carrying out said method In a method for introducing and blowing rock dust to bind carbon dust during advance working or coal mining using an advance working or mining machine, respectively, the cutting tools are retracted relative to a displaceable machine frame after having cut an outbrea... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6988776 | Floor scraping machine with floating blade A machine for scraping a floor covering from a floor has rear drive wheels and a forward blade assembly. Arms which each rotate independently on the frame at one end are connected to the blade assembly which independently rotate on their other ends. Thus, the blade ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6709064 | Method and device for detaching or cutting out an embedded manhole frame A method for detaching a manhole frame (7) that is embedded in a road surface, wherein the manhole frame (7) is cut horizontally starting from the inside, without significant exposure of the outside area surrounding the manhole frame (7), by usi... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6672675 | Traverse carriage A traverse carriage and operator arrangement for transversely adjusting the abrader unit or units of a mobile surface abrading apparatus. In a preferred embodiment the traverse carriage is mounted on a cross-member by means of rollers and is operated by a... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6582026 | Machine for cutting pavement A machine for cutting pavement, street curbs, bridge components, or sidewalks. The cutting apparatus is mounted on a truck body for transport and can be extended from the truck and supported directly on the ground for cutting. The cutting apparatus includ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6428109 | Mining machine with sliding cutting tool assembly In a cutting machine (2), including rotatably mounted cutting or shearing tools (19), a loading ramp and a hauling means (4) extend in a direction towards a mine face for receiving and hauling cut or sheared material. The cutting or shearing tools (19) ar... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6357831 | Excavation machine for hard rock mining An excavation machine for hard rock mining which is relatively inexpensive, is mobile and versatile, is relatively light in weight (weighing no more than eight metric tons including power and control units and equipment for automation) and has the ability... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6270163 | Mining machine with moveable cutting assembly and method of using the same A mining machine (20) for combined entry and retreat cutting of material located in underground seams including, a movable mainframe (21), a wing (50, 51) extending ahead of the movable mainframe, a cutter assembly (100) positionable proximate the end of ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6224164 | Mining machine with detachable articulated cutting assembly A mining machine that has a chassis that defines an operator area thereon and has a mining assembly attached thereto. A vertically extending shield assembly is supported on the chassis to prevent material that is dislodged during the mining process from i... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6158817 | Concrete saw machine for grooving above, below, or beside A machine is disclosed, for making a groove into a ceiling, wall or floor. The machine has a powered truck-like vehicle having a support base and an apparatus mounted on the base. The apparatus has two parallel spaced-apart booms pivotally mounted on the ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6062650 | Continuous control system for a mining or tunnelling machine A continuous control system for a mining or tunnelling machine having a boom (12) with a motor driven cutting head (14) at one of its ends and a rotatable turret (20) at the other end, the control system comprising angular encoders (40, 44) for continuous... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6003952 | Underwater mining machine An underwater mining machine includes a chassis mounted on a powered drive arrangement for driving the chassis on an underwater surface, the chassis having a front end and a rear end and being adapted to be manoeuvrable and driven in at least a forward di... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5836658 | Method and apparatus for boring and shearing of rocks A method of rock cutting where, as a first step of each excavation cycle, a second open surface is created utilizing boring method and, as a second step, the excavation cycle is completed utilizing a shearing method; and a cutting element for excavation o... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5676125 | Excavator mounted concrete saw Rotary disk saw is adapted to be mounted on an earth excavator or the like, having an articulating and rotatable member for a boom. To this excavating boom, which normally carries a shovel, the saw carrying unit is attached and includes a compound pivot m... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5333936 | Low profile mining machine having a cutter mounted on a slidable carriage A cutter machine has cutter heads or rollers rotatably mounted on a pivoting cutter arm. It also has a loading ramp and a conveyor running in a direction towards the work face of the cutter machine to take up and convey away cut material. The cutter arm i... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5330257 | Auger mining machine An auger mining apparatus includes a support frame holding a tilt platform. A tilt mechanism displaces the tilt platform at a pitch between 0°-45° relative to the support frame. A stacked, dual carriage arrangement is carried by the tilt platform. A bid... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5234257 | Mobile mining machine having tilted swing axis and method A mobile mining machine for cutting a tunnel in rock has a wheel-like cutterhead assembly supported by a pitch boom assembly that causes movement of the cutterhead assembly in the vertical plane. A swing boom assembly supports the pitch boom assembly and ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5221122 | Multipurpose mining machine A mining machine having a frame undercarriage having forward and rearward ends provided with a traction assembly for driving the frame undercarriage towards a seam face to be mined. A cutting assembly is provided which includes a plurality of rotatable ou... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5192116 | Gantry-type mobile mining machine A gantry-type mobile mining machine includes a cutterwheel having an axis of rotation substantially parallel to the tunnel work face and carried by a boom assembly pivotally movable about an axis also substantially parallel to the tunnel work face and to ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5192115 | Tramming mobile mining machine A mobile mining machine for cutting a tunnel in rock has a wheel-like cutterhead assembly supported by a pitch boom assembly that causes movement of the cutterhead assembly in the vertical plane. A swing boom assembly supports the pitch boom assembly and ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5087102 | Continuous mining machine A continuous mining machine for excavating a longitudinal shaft or tunnel underneath the surface of the earth. The machine has a working platform that mounted on the transport mechanism, and a cutter platform is mounted to the working platform. The cutter... | 02/11/1992 |
| 4998777 | Coal-cutting machine having horizontally swivellable jib boom and vertically swivellable loading means A coal-cutting machine (1) having an all-round swivelling jib boom (6), on which cutting implements (17) are rotatably supported, and a loading platform (3) comprising a loading platform which can swivel about an axis (4) extending transversely to the lon... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4921309 | Mining machine adapted for attachment of continuous miner cutter boom assembly The mining machine can serve a dual function, as a road header or as a continuous miner. The machine has a turrent 14 into which a road header assembly can be directly pivotally mounted. Alternatively a continuous miner cutter assembly can be pivotally mo... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4884848 | Device and method for exploiting material The openpit mining device includes a cantilever arm which is swivellable around a horizontal axis and carries a support or tool carriage. The support or tool carriage is shiftably supported in a transverse relation to the longitudinal axis of the cantilev... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4838615 | Apparatus for excavating a recess Apparatus for excavating a tunnel of generally quadrilateral cross-section, the apparatus comprising a cutting head having the head being mounted for rotation about a first axis and a second axis to change the angle of inclination of the cutter. The cutte... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4832412 | Machine for cutting pavement There is disclosed a powered truck-like vehicle having a support base at the back and an apparatus for cutting street or road pavement. A length-wise-extensible boom is mounted at one end on the base so that it can extend laterally of the vehicle. An elon... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4792190 | Machine for cutting curbstones, sidewalks or the like There is disclosed a machine including a powered truck-like vehicle having a support base and an apparatus mounted on the base for cutting a drive-in passage across a curbstone, a sidewalk or the like. The apparatus comprises two spaced parallel booms mou... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4770469 | Process for controlling the movement of a universally swivellable cutting arm of a partial cut cutting machine as well as apparatus for performing this process A method and apparatus for controlling the movement of a universally swivellable cutting arm of a partial cut cutting machine of the kind including a first hydraulic drive for lifting and lowering the cutting arm in order to preselect the depth of cut and... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4749194 | Sectional cutting machine used to cut curved gallery cross-sections true to profile Sectional cutting machine used to cut a curved gallery cross-section in underground mining and tunneling operations with cutting rollers arranged in a movable way in regard to the machine frame. The machine is characterized by the circumstance, that to cu... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4746170 | Mining machinery There is provided a continuous mining system comprising at least one chassis, boom arrangement for supporting a continuous miner cutting head, roadheader turntable assembly and, optionally, drilling machine. The latter three items are adapted so that each... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4744425 | Apparatus for excavating a substantially vertical slot The apparatus for making a substantially vertical slot in the ground, especially in a single operation in making a sealing or supporting wall, comprises a machine frame with a rectangular cross section guided in the slot in the ground with a plurality of ... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4740037 | Continuous mining machine A continuous mining machine includes a main frame mounted on tracks for mobility, a cutter head mounted on a subframe which is adapted to be moved toward and away from the front of the main frame, a conveyor to collect mined material and convey it to the ... | 04/26/1988 |
