POWERED SUPPORT FOR STEEP BEDS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC E21D23/08 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: powered support is proposed, each section of which comprises a beam, air cushions, a hauling element, a capsule of equipment compartment, a block, a bottomhole and goaf barrier. At the same time the hauling element is represented by manipulators arranged as two near soil and two near mine roof at both sides of the capsule of the equipment compartment and are made as capable of making walking movements to move the reinforcement support to the bottomhole. And the specified bottomhole and goaf barriers are beam cantilevers, which are kinematically rigidly connected to it and having vibratory devices.

EFFECT: possibility to independently overcome geological violations and domes of collapsed rocks.

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