Abstract: A cargo transporter loading assembly for loading bulk material onto a cargo transporter. The assembly includes a frame carrying a pivotally mounted boom. A distal end of the boom carries a head part encased by a cover and configured to prevent wind and rain ingress into the region between the boom and a cargo hold of a cargo transporter during bulk material loading.

Abstract: Vibrating equipment is provided with a vibrating body supported on a frame. The vibrating body is vibrated by at least one first vibrating device, wherein a vibrating deck of the vibrating body moves in a vertical direction and in a machine direction. The vibrating equipment additionally includes at least one second vibrating device arranged to vibrate the vibrating deck in a lateral direction. Further, a method of processing a material is disclosed.

Abstract: A drill rod handling apparatus is configured to feed rods to and from a drill string created by a drill rig. The apparatus includes a gripper unit configured to contact and hold a rod to be transported to the drill rig and an alignment tool mounted at the gripper unit to provide correct mating of the rod ends during coupling.

Abstract: A gyratory crusher topshell and topshell assembly including an outer crushing shell and optional intermediate spacer ring. The topshell has a radially inward facing surface that is divided into a plurality of regions including an upper and lower mount region axially separated by an intermediate annular rib. The rib enables the topshell to be compatible with a variety of different sized and shaped concaves optionally using an intermediate spacer ring without the need for a backing compound.

Abstract: An austenitic alloy comprising (in weight %): C: 0.01-0.05 Si: 0.05-0.80 Mn: 1.5-2 Cr: 26-34.5 Ni: 30-35 Mo: 3-4 Cu: 0.5-1.5 N: 0.05-0.15 V: ?0.15 the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, characterized in that 40?% Ni+100*% N?5 50.

Abstract: A percussion drilling apparatus is arranged to affect at least one characteristic of a shock wave produced in a drill string. The apparatus includes an elongate energy transmission adaptor having a shock wave modification sleeve configured with a free end and an attachment end projecting radially from an outer surface of the adaptor.

Abstract: A wear tip holder for holding a wear tip adjacent to an outflow opening of a vertical rotor wall of a rotor of a VSI crusher includes a mounting plate for mounting the wear tip holder to the rotor wall. The mounting plate has a mounting face for facing a segment of the rotor wall to which it is to be mounted and a wear face, opposite the mounting face, for facing the interior of the rotor. A side wall extends between the mounting face and the wear face. The side wall includes a material retention surface facing, when in use, the rotor wall segment, thereby allowing material to be trapped under the material retention face.

Abstract: A wear tip holder for holding a wear tip adjacent to an outflow opening of a vertical rotor wall of a rotor of a VSI crusher includes a mounting plate for mounting the wear tip holder to the rotor wall. The mounting plate has a mounting face for facing the rotor wall to which it is to be mounted, and opposite the mounting face, a wear face for facing the interior of the rotor. A wear body is connected to the mounting plate and is provided with an elongate wear tip recess for holding the wear tip. At least one material retention groove extends along the wear tip recess at a position upstream, as seen in a direction of an intended flow of material to be crushed, of the wear tip recess. The material retention groove has an upstream groove wall and a downstream groove wall, the downstream groove wall forming an acute angle with the wear face for retaining material to be crushed.

Abstract: The invention is a low binder, wear resistant material including, in weight percent of raw materials, from 15% to 20% of molybdenum carbide added in either elemental or compound form, an alloy of 0.9% to 3% cobalt, nickel or a combination of cobalt and nickel, of 0 to 0.1% of chromium carbide, optionally also titanium carbide or titanium tungsten carbide and the balance of tungsten carbide.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a valve spindle having a valve disc and a valve stem, the method comprising the steps of: providing a capsule, which defines at least a portion of the valve disc; arranging, in the capsule, a preformed core body that includes a core head, which constitutes an inner portion of the valve disc; arranging a preformed annular valve seat in the capsule, wherein the valve seat is arranged such that the inner circumferential side of the valve seat at least partially defines an inner space around the core head; filling the inner space with a first metallic material, forming the buffer layer, such that the core head is covered with the first material; filling the capsule with a second metallic material, forming the cladding layer; subjecting the capsule to Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) at a predetermined temperature, a predetermined isostatic pressure and for a predetermined time so that the preformed core body, the buffer layer, the cladding layer and the valve seat are bonded metallurgically

Abstract: A cutting pick tool including a cemented carbide support body that mounts a diamond composite cutting tip. The support body includes a recess having a conical region that mounts a complementary conical shaped mount portion of the tip. The components are brazed together to provide a secure and robust cutting tip region.

Abstract: A twist drill for drilling composite materials includes a shank; a drill body; a drill tip having a cutting edge, a chisel edge, and a secondary chisel edge, wherein the secondary chisel angle of the drill tip is 145° to 165 and the point angle is 70° to 100°; and a flute extending from the drill tip to the drill body. The flute has a constant helix, and the helix angle of the flute being selected from the range 45° to 55°. A method of drilling a composite material comprising fibers uses the twist drill of the present embodiment. Suitably, the composite material is carbon fiber reinforced plastic or glass fiber reinforced plastic, and optionally being a laminate material such that the method comprises stack drilling. Embodiments achieve a combination of good hole quality, good tool life and good hole size spread.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing of a wear resistant component including the steps of providing a form defining at least a portion of the shape of the component; providing a powder mixture comprising 30-70 vol % of a powder of tungsten carbide and 70-30 vol % of a powder of a nickel based alloy, wherein the nickel based alloy consists of, in weight %: C: 0-1.0; Cr: 0-14.0; Si: 2.5-4.5; B: 1.25-3.0; Fe: 1.0-4.5; the balance being Ni and unavoidable impurities, and wherein the powder of tungsten carbide has a particle size of 105-250 ?m and the powder of the nickel based alloy has a maximum particle size of 32 ?m; filling at least a portion of the form with the powder mixture; and subjecting the form to Hot Isostatic Pressing at a predetermined temperature, a predetermined isostatic pressure and a for a predetermined time so that the particles of the nickel-based alloy bond metallurgically to each other.

Abstract: An elongate drill component for percussive drilling includes a female threaded end having an outer diameter (Dot), a male threaded end, and a central section between the ends having an outer diameter (Doc). The outer diameter of the female threaded end is larger than the outer diameter of the central section. A through-going flushing channel includes a central flushing channel having a diameter (Dic) and thread flushing channels having a diameter (Dit). The ratio of an elastic section modulus of a threaded joint measured when the female threaded end is connected to the male threaded end of an identical component to an elastic section modulus of the central section, St/Sc, is more than 1.5 and in that a ratio of the diameter of the central flushing channel to the outer diameter of the central section, Dic/Doc is between 0.45 and 0.95.

Abstract: An earthmoving equipment bucket corner has a first portion, a second portion and an intermediate portion between the first and second portions, all in different planes to one another. A boss or lug is provided on the leading edge of the intermediate portion. The intermediate portion is angled relative to both the first and second portions, which alleviates the load stresses otherwise created in a traditional 90° corner. The first portion has a wall with a taper or bevel towards a forward edge. The second portion has a wall with a leading flared wall portion that widens the corner at the front. The intermediate portion is preferably at an included angle of around 120° to 170° with respect to the respective walls of the first and second portions.

Abstract: A gyratory crusher includes a spider supported at a top shell, the spider having a pair of spider arms protected by respective arm shields. The shields are mounted and dismounted at the respective arms via a locking flange and notch and lug arrangement to avoid attachment by welding or attachment bolts.

Abstract: An austenitic alloy comprising (in weight %): C: 0.01-0.05 Si: 0.05-0.80 Mn: 1.5-2 Cr: 26-34.5 Ni: 30-35 Mo: 3-4 Cu: 0.5-1.5 N: 0.05-0.15 V: <0.15 the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein 40<% Ni+100*% N<50.