Abstract:
A cutting blade includes a blade body 10 with one or more cutting elements 20/50 positioned along its periphery. The elements can be keyed to the blade core to help provide secure mounting onto the blade, and can include a polychrystaline diamond composite (PDC) portion as a primary cutting material. Protection elements 80 can be positioned to reduce wear and other damage to the blade core 10 and/or any substrate supporting the PDC, and thereby extend the life of the blade assembly.
Abstract:
A system for uncovering and sealing a narrow trench. The system comprises several subsystems, including a work machine, a frame for providing a seal with the surface to be trenched, a saw blade, a vacuum system, a system for placing product and a resealer. The blade includes rotatable tooth bits, which may be rotated and secured to create a blade for narrower or a wider trench. A removable cover and the blade are easily changeable. A ground engaging surface on the frame is manipulated to maintain a seal with changing ground surfaces. Additionally, the vertical location of the blade within the frame is adjustable to create a deeper or shallower trench.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for excavating and transporting material, especially earth, said device comprising an excavation appliance that can be rotated about a rotational axis (y) in a rotational direction (u), and a longitudinal conveyor (18) for transporting the excavated material (41). The excavation appliance comprises an impeller (12, 14) having a conically extending guide surface (20) arranged around the rotational axis (y) in a rotationally symmetrical manner, and guide vanes (22) which radially protrude from the conical guide surface (20) and form an acute angle in relation to the rotational axis (y).
Abstract:
A machine for improved excavation of underwater rock that eliminates failures due to over-stressed cutting teeth 3 by positioning each hardened tooth for optimized Kinetic Energy. It has a plurality of blades 7 each connected between a back ring 6 and a forward rim 5, with a plurality of spokes 4 connecting rim 5 to a hub 1. Teeth 3 are mounted on the leading edge of each blade 7 approximately equidistant from the cutter axis of rotation 2, allowing each tooth 3 to have the proper combination of velocity and cutting force required to shatter massive, hard rock. As a result, all teeth 3 in the present invention have approximately the same peripheral velocity; have adequate Kinetic Energy to shatter rock upon impact, and are subject to approximately the same maximum stress during rock excavation.
Abstract:
An axially rotatable groundworking implement (40) mountable to a host vehicle (11). The groundworking implement is powered by two hydraulic motors (75, 85) between the side ends of the groundworking implement (40). The shaft (76) of each motor (75, 85) includes a bore (104) which functions as either the hydraulic fluid input port or output port for that motor. Each hydraulic motor shaft (76) is nonrotatably affixed to a groundworking implement protective cover (42). The groundworking implement (40) can be removed from its supporting mechanism (42) without detaching the motor (75, 85) from the work implement.
Abstract:
An apparatus for cutting and breaking rock is described. The apparatus comprises a cutting disc (13) having an attached wedge (11). Cutting disc (13) can be rotated by shaft (16) to cut a groove into rock. After a pre-determined distance, wedge (11) is forced into the cut groove to cause the rock above the groove to be broken away. Shaft (16) is powered by a drive motor, and can include a kick back mechanism to prevent wedge (11) from being trapped in the cut groove. The entire apparatus can be mounted to the three point linkage of a tractor.
Abstract:
A bucket wheel has a conical supporting body constructed as an inner shell (3) rotatably mounted on the bucket wheel axis and a device which co-operates with the supporting body to accomodate the buckets on the outer rim of the bucket wheel. The supporting body is prolonged radially by a prismatic-type outer shell (4) arranged on the supporting body parallel to the device, which has cell-forming dividing walls on its radially outward peripheral region. The prismatic shell, viewed in the radial direction, is shaped from a plurality of approximately trapezoidal steel plates which are welded to one another, making a plurality of bends, to form a polygonal conical envelope.
Abstract:
A bucket (501) for a reclaimer having a first end (502a) and a second end (502b), the bucket comprising two side walls (502) extending from the first end (502a) to the second end (502b); a bucket portion (503) disposed between the two side walls (502) in the second end (502b), the bucket portion (503) having a first lateral edge (503a) and a second lateral edge (503b), the second lateral edge (503b) of the bucket portion (503) arranged further towards the second end (502b) than the first lateral edge (503a) so that at least part of the bucket portion (503) has an inclination with respect to a reclaiming surface (520); wherein the two side walls (502) extend past the first lateral edge (502a) of the bucket portion (503) towards the first end (502a) so that the distance (D2) between the first end (502a) and the second lateral edge (503b) is greater than the distance (D1) between the first end (502a) and the first lateral edge (503a). Also disclosed is a reclaimer apparatus incorporating the same and a method for reclaiming material from a stockpile using such an arrangement with a cleaning device.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a bucket wheel (1) for removing materials from a material composite (25), particularly of high hardness, comprising a main body (10), which extends around a bucket wheel rotational axis (11) and on which a plurality of buckets (12) having bucket cutters (13) are accommodated, said buckets being distributed on the circumference of the main body, wherein a plurality of cutting teeth (14) are arranged on each bucket cutter (13), the cutting teeth being movable on respective circular orbits (15, 16) by rotation of the main body (10) about the bucket wheel rotational axis (11). According to the invention, the cutting teeth (14) that are accommodated on adjacent bucket cutters (13) are arranged offset from one another, at least in part, such that the cutting teeth are movable on circular orbits (15, 16) offset in the direction of the bucket wheel rotational axis (11).
Abstract:
Cutting wheel system (1) for a dredging device, comprising a cutting wheel (2) and a cutting wheel drive system (8), whereby the cutting wheel comprises at least two cutting element rings (3), which rings are positioned at a distance from each other in parallel planes whereby the cutting element rings have coaxial rotation axes (12,13), whereby a suction tube (7) can be positioned between the two cutting element rings (3), whereby the cutting wheel drive system is arranged to rotate the cutting wheel about the coaxial rotation axes, wherein the cutting wheel system further comprises connecting arms (9) for mounting the cutting wheel in a rotatable manner to the dredging device, wherein the connecting arms are moveable with respect to each other between a closed position wherein the connecting arms engage the cutting wheel from opposite sides of the cutting wheel, and an open position wherein the cutting wheel is released from the connecting arms.