Abstract: A rock drilling machine, rock drilling rig and method of measuring physical features during rock drilling is provided. The rock drilling machine includes one or more sensing devices, which are arranged in connection with a bendable sensing cord. The sensing cord is fed via a feed passage to a flushing passage of a drilling tool.

Abstract: Sensor for high-pressure line and method for manufacturing thereof. The sensor detects parameters or properties of fluid conducted in a high-pressure line while maintaining the high pressure of the fluid. The sensor includes an inner tube extending concentrically in the outer tube that together form a tube and at least one groove which extends in the inner surface of the outer tube or in the outer surface of the inner tube in a longitudinal direction, at least one signal line arranged in the groove, and at least one pick-up element connected to the signal line and arranged at least in the groove or in at least one recess which is provided at least in the outer surface of the inner tube or in the inner surface of the outer tube in addition to the at least one groove. The outer tube is in frictional connection with the inner tube.

Abstract: A jaw plate retainer assembly is arranged to releasably secure a jaw plate at a jaw of a jaw crusher. The retainer assembly is configured specifically for positioning at a rearward region of the jaw plate, such that no part of the retainer assembly is exposed to the crushing chamber and to protect it when mounted in use by the jaw plate.

Abstract: An indexable and double-sided round cutting insert includes an upper and lower side. A center axis extends between the upper and lower side and a median plane extends perpendicular to the center axis and is situated halfway between the upper and lower side. A side surface has an upper and lower positive clearance surface at an upper positive clearance angle with respect to an upper cutting edge and a lower positive clearance angle with respect to a lower cutting edge. A plurality of protrusions extends along the side surface and protrude in a radial direction perpendicular to the center axis. Each protrusion includes an outer surface, which along the center axis, extends such that a first radial distance from the center axis to the outer surface in the median plane is at least equal to or greater than a second radial distance from the center axis to the outer surface.

Abstract: A boring tool includes a tool body rotatable around a central rotation axis. A slider member is arranged movably inside the tool body along a path extending transversely to the rotation axis. An insert pocket is associated with the slider member to move therewith and configured to receive a cutting insert with a cutting edge and which projects from the tool body transversely to the rotation axis. A motor member is connected to the slider member and controllable to move the slider member transversely to the rotation axis for changing the distance of the cutting edge to the rotation axis. The motor member is arranged inside the tool body together with the slider member in a cutting part of the tool body at a front end thereof. The motor member is arranged in parallel with the transversal extension of the slider member along said path.

Abstract: A metal cutting drill insert for a drill tool having a chip disruptor provided at a rake face. The chip disruptor is further configured with a chamfer at a leading cutting edge region to increase cutting resistance and facilitate chip breakage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder mixture for three-dimensional (3D) printing of a cermet or a cemented carbide body. The powder mixture includes 65-85 wt % of porous cemented carbide or cermet particles of a median particle size (D50) of 10-35 ?m, and 15-35 wt % of a dense cemented carbide or cermet particles of a median particle size (D50) of 3-10 ?m. The present invention also relates to a method of making a cermet or cemented carbide body, the method including the steps of forming the powder mixture, 3D printing a body using the powder mixture and a printing binder and thereby forming a 3D printed cermet or cemented carbide green body and sintering the green body and to form a cermet or cemented carbide body.

Abstract: A gyratory crusher hydraulic pressure relief valve includes a hydraulic fluid vestibule arranged to be fluidly connected to a hydraulic fluid space. A logic element is arranged to dump hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid space, which includes a plunger having a first plunger surface and a second plunger surface, and a control pipe arranged for fluidly connecting the second plunger surface to the hydraulic fluid vestibule. A supply orifice restricts the flow of hydraulic fluid from the vestibule towards the second plunger surface to make the time TC it takes for the logic element to switch from open position to closed position exceed the time TF it takes for a closed side setting position of the crusher to make one full round.

Abstract: A turning insert includes a top surface, an opposite bottom surface, a side surface connecting the top and bottom surfaces, and a cutting edge formed at an intersection between the top surface and the side surface. The cutting edge including a corner cutting edge, a first cutting edge, and a second cutting edge. The top surface having a first surface in the form of a depression, which borders at least a major portion of the corner cutting edge. The first and the second cutting edges subtending an angle ? which is 75-85°. At least a part of the corner cutting edge is concave in a front view.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an extendable apparatus, such as an extendable apparatus for a drill head, a drill head including an extendable apparatus, and a method of operating a drill head. The extendable apparatus includes a base section, a drive section, an extension section, and a functional section. The base section and the drive section are moveable with respect to the extension section and the functional section along a longitudinal axis. The drive section and the functional section are rotationally rigidly coupled to each other. The base section and the extension section are rotationally rigid coupled to each other, and the drive section and the functional section are rotationally moveably coupled to the extension section.

Abstract: A method for a zone passage control system for an underground worksite having a plurality of operation zones for autonomously operating mobile vehicle operations includes the steps of associating a first passage control unit with a first zone and a second zone, detecting state parameter information of the first zone and the second zone, merging the first zone and the second zone into a fusion zone on the basis of the state parameter information of the first zone and the second zone, and adapting the zone passage control system to allow a first autonomously operating mobile vehicle to pass the first passage control unit in the fusion zone without interrupting operation of a second autonomously operating mobile vehicle in the first zone and/or the second zone.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a duplex stainless steels strip manufactured from a duplex stainless steel, wherein the duplex stainless steel comprises the following composition, in weight %: C less than or equal to 0.02; Si 0.05 to 0.40; Mn 0.5-3.0; Cr 30.0 to 33.0; Ni 5.0-10.0; Mo 2.0-4.0; N 0.40-0.60; Al 0.010-0.035; B 0.0020-0.0030; Ca 0.0006-0.0040; 5 Cu 0-0.60; V0-0.15; W 0-0.05; Co 0-0.60; Ti 0-0.03; Nb 0-0.03; P less than or equal to 0.03; S less than or equal to 0.02; balance Fe and unavoidable impurities; and wherein the duplex stainless steel consists of 30-70 vol % austenite phase and 70-30 vol % ferrite phase; and wherein the strip has alternating layers of ferrite phase and austenite phase, said alternating layers are essentially parallel with the plane of the object and said alternating 10 layers have an average layer thickness less than or equal to about 10 ?m. The present disclosure also relates to a method of producing a strip comprising said duplex stainless steel.

Abstract: A cutter for a cutting unit used in cutting apparatus suitable for creating tunnels or subterranean roadways. The cutter includes a disc body having an underside, an upper side arranged substantially opposite to the underside, and a radially peripheral part. A plurality of buttons for abrading rock are mounted in the radially peripheral part of the disc body and protrude outwardly therefrom to engage rock during an undercutting operation, wherein at least some of the buttons have a cutting part having a dome-shaped cutting surface.

Abstract: An apparatus, a method for positioning a rock drilling, and a rock drilling rig is provided. The rock drilling rig includes a mobile drilling platform and a drilling mast connected to the drilling platform. The drilling platform is levelled vertically before initiating drilling. The apparatus determines the needed vertical levelling requirement. The levelling causes displacement of a drilling tool line passing through a drilling tool. The apparatus estimates the displacement and provides aid for the operator to position the drilling platform in order to compensate for the estimated displacement distance.

Abstract: A sensor module for a tool holder for a cutting tool, such that when the sensor module is arranged to the tool holder having a cutting tool connected thereto, an axial portion of the cutting tool is positionable in a predefined rest position with respect to the sensor module. The sensor module includes at least one position sensor, wherein, when the sensor module is arranged to the tool holder having a cutting tool connected thereto, the position sensor is located radially spaced from the axial portion of the cutting tool for measuring deflection of the cutting tool with respect to the rest position. The disclosure further relates to a tool holder, a cutting tool, a cutting assembly, and a method for measuring deflection of a cutting tool.

Abstract: A metal cutting tool includes a main tool body and a slider element received at least partially in the main tool body and arranged movably relative. The slider element has a cutting edge or supports a cutting insert having a cutting edge. An internal coolant supply is arranged to supply coolant from the main tool body to the cutting edge and has a coolant channel running within the main tool body and within the slider element. The main tool body, or a transfer element that has the coolant channel being part of the internal coolant supply and connected with the main tool body, includes a first sealing surface on which an outlet of the coolant channel of the main tool body is arranged. The slider element, or the transfer element, includes a second sealing surface on which an inlet of the coolant channel of the slider element is arranged.

Abstract: A rock breaking device and a method of monitoring a condition of a tool of a rock breaking device is provided. The rock breaking device includes a frame, a tool, a device for generating stress waves in the tool, measuring means for measuring the stress wave propagating in the tool and at least one computing unit for monitoring a condition of the tool on the basis of the measured stress wave. The at least one computing unit is configured to determine a condition of the tool on the basis of a time of propagation of at least one reflected stress wave component of the stress wave and at least one additional property of the same reflected stress wave component.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tube structure comprising an inner tube of metal and an outer tube of metal, wherein the inner tube extends in the outer tube, and wherein either the inner tube and the outer tube are mechanically tight fitted over the entire length of the inner tube, at least one space in a radial direction of the tube structure in the form of a groove extends at least in an outer surface of the inner tube or in an inner surface of the outer tube, and the at least one space extends in a longitudinal direction of the inner tube and over an entire longitudinal extension of the inner tube, or a spacer tube is located between the inner tube and the outer tube, the inner tube, the outer tube and the spacer tube are mechanically tight fitted over the entire length of the spacer tube, the spacer tube comprises at least one space in the form a slit extending in a radial direction of the tube structure from an outer surface of the inner tube to an inner surface of the outer tube, the at least one s

Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder for three-dimensional printing of a cermet or a cemented carbide body. The powder has 30-70 vol % of the particles that are <10 ?m in diameter. The present invention also relates to a method of making a cermet or cemented carbide body. The method includes the steps of forming the powder, 3D printing a body using the powder together with a printing binder to form a 3D printed cermet or cemented carbide green body and subsequently sintering the green body to form a cermet or cemented carbide body.