MINING MACHINE Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: mining; may be used in designs of mining machines intended for driving mine workings by combining method with selective action, or for driving mine workings by drilling and blasting with muck loaded by loading machine. SUBSTANCE: mining machine has conveyor including frame and drive head and chute installed on turntable. The latter consists of immovable and movable rings interconnected by clamps with movable ring rotation in horizontal plane through 360 deg and limiting of rotation by means of lock. Chute is installed on turntable by means of horizontal axle connecting chute and movable ring, and allowing the chute to turn in vertical plane, and by flexible member adjusted in length, and fastened by its one end with chute, and by its other end, with movable ring. Turntable is secured to conveyor frame for motion along conveyor axis. EFFECT: higher efficiency of muck loading onto transporting vehicle. 9 dwg