Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material – Hard material disintegrating machines – Remote control
Patent
1991-04-29
1992-11-10
Bagnell, David J.
Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material
Hard material disintegrating machines
Remote control
299 14, 364420, 3649226, 364DIG2, E21C 3524
Patent
active
051618575
ABSTRACT:
A teleoperated mining system is provided for remotely controlling the various machines involved with thin seam mining. A thin seam continuous miner located at a mining face includes a camera mounted thereon and a slave computer for controlling the miner and the camera. A plurality of sensors for relaying information about the miner and the face to the slave computer. A slave computer controlled ventilation sub-system which removes combustible material from the mining face. A haulage sub-system removes material mined by the continuous miner from the mining face to a collection site and is also controlled by the slave computer. A base station, which controls the supply of power and water to the continuous miner, haulage system, and ventilation systems, includes cable/hose handling module for winding or unwinding cables/hoses connected to the miner, an operator control module, and a hydraulic power and air compressor module for supplying air to the miner. An operator controlled host computer housed in the operator control module is connected to the slave computer via a two wire communications line.
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Kwitowski et al "Ergonomically Designed Operator Workstation for a Computer-Aided Remotely Controlled Mining System," International Conference on Ergonomics, Occupational Safety and Health and the Environment, Oct. 1988 pp. 362-373.
Mining Congress Journal Sep. 1976 "Remote-Control Mining and Continuous Roof Bolting", Miller et al. pp. 22-28.
Brautigam Albert L.
Kwitowski August J.
Mayercheck William D.
Mueller Brian K.
Bagnell David J.
Koltos E. Philip
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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