Abstract: A device for expelling drops of a flowable product. The invention relates to a device for expelling drops of a flowable product, comprising a rotating outer drum and a feed channel for the product to be expelled extending into the outer drum, wherein the outer drum comprises passage openings on the circumference thereof, through which the product to be expelled runs from the feed channel and then exits in droplet shape. According to the invention, at least one outer circumference of the outer drum is provided with a coating that reduces wetting with the product to be tabletted compared to a base material of the outer drum. For example, the invention can be used for tabletting flowable products.

Abstract: A slotting device (100) to be used with a rock drilling apparatus (1) to drill closely together a plurality of parallel intersecting holes so as to form a slot in a brittle material, such as rock, masonry or concrete. The slotting device (100) includes a guide portion (110) connected to a body portion (120) with at least one strut (130). The guide portion (110) is disposed in a previously drilled hole, and the body portion (120) and a rotary percussion tool (7) mutually define a variable volume chamber (140) that contains flushing fluid that damps transmission of impact stress waves from a percussion device (4) of the drilling apparatus (1) to the slotting device (100).

Abstract: A flexible metallic strip product including a ferritic chromium strip steel material having a coating of an electrically insulating layer of zirconia stabilized with yttrium, said coating being intended to receive a second coating of an electrically conducting layers is disclosed. This coating is very efficient as an electrically insulating layer in flexible solar cells and solid state thin film batteries because it has practically the same thermal expansion coefficient as the steel substrate.

Abstract: A method for handling lubricant mist used in mist lubrication, a separation conduit and a rock drilling rig having a mist lubrication system provided with a separation conduit. The return flow of the lubrication mist is conveyed in the separation conduit from the lubrication target to a collection container. The separation conduit is an elongated conduit having an elongated separation member arranged therein, the separation member comprising a plural number of successive and inclined barrier surfaces. Lubricant droplets contained in the lubricant mist hit the barrier surfaces and accumulate thereon. The separated lubricant is collected into the collection container at the outermost end of the separation conduit.

Abstract: A gyratory crusher includes a crushing head, which is arranged rotatably on a substantially vertical shaft and on which a first crushing shell is mounted, and a frame, on which a second crushing shell is mounted, which second crushing shell, together with the first crushing shell, delimits a crushing gap. A supporting piston is arranged inside a cavity of the shaft, which supporting piston is displaceable in the vertical direction in order to adjust the width of the crushing gap. An eccentric is, by means of at least one radial bearing, arranged rotatably about the shaft. The gyratory crusher has an oil line, arranged in the cavity and extending through a piston plate included in the supporting piston, for supplying lubricating oil to a lubricating oil chamber configured at least partially in the cavity above the piston plate, the lubricating oil chamber being connected to the radial bearing by a duct arranged in the shaft.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making cutting tools comprising a substrate having a hard phase and a binder phase, the method comprising forming green powder compacts using powder metallurgical techniques, charging the green powder compacts, placed on one or several trays, in a furnace and sintering the green powder compacts wherein the furnace comprises an insulation package, at least three individually controlled heating elements located inside the insulation package including a vertical heating element, an upper horizontal heating element arranged in an upper part of the furnace, and a lower horizontal heating element arranged in a lower part of the furnace, wherein operating the at least three heating elements such that an average controlled cooling rate from a sintering temperature down to at least a solidification temperature of the binder phase is 0.1-4.0° C./min, and a sintering furnace operable to obtain a controlled cooling rate.

Abstract: A tool pick assembly is provided for insertion in a first bore having a first diameter. The tool pick assembly includes a tool pick having a shank with a diameter sized for receipt in a second bore having a second diameter, the second diameter being smaller than the first diameter, an adaptive sleeve retainer having a thickness for stably supporting the shank of the tool pick in the first bore, and a washer for compressing the adaptive sleeve retainer to aid insertion into the first bore. The adaptive sleeve retainer is configured to spring radially outward to retain the tool pick in the first bore. A push out force for pushing the tool pick out from the first bore is approximately ±10% of a push out force for pushing out from the first bore a tool pick having a shank with a diameter sized for receipt in the first bore.

Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a coating and a substrate. The substrate is at least partly coated with a 4-10 ?m thick coating comprising two adjacent Ti(C,N)-layers where the difference (?) between the residual stress state of the inner layer and the residual stress state of the outer layer is 1000 MPa???2500 MPa, on at least a part of the cutting edge and/or on at least a part of the rake face. A method to produce such a difference between the residual stress states is also disclosed.

Abstract: A crushing and reducing device, especially cone crushers, used in the building and ore-dressing industries. A method of controlling the operation of a cone crusher having an internal cone connected to an unbalanced vibrator, and an external cone. The method includes utilizing a measurement plane being connected to the internal cone, measuring distances between the measurement plane and a frame of the crusher, and calculating an angle of inclination of the inner cone. The method further includes controlling, based on the calculated angle of inclination of the inner cone, at least one parameter chosen among: the angle of inclination of the inner cone, and the size of a discharge gap between the internal cone and the external cone.

Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining, including a basic body having an insert seat, and an indexable cutting insert fixed in the seat. The insert includes an upperside, an underside, a pair of side contact surfaces, two cutting edges that individually extend along a chip surface included in one of the upperside and underside, at least two heads that are spaced-apart via an intermediate part and individually include a front portion having at least one cutting edge and a rear portion along which the pair of side contact surfaces are formed. The insert seat of the basic body includes a central hollow space, and a front cavity and at least one rear cavity in which the heads of the cutting insert are housed, the front cavity including a pair of side support surfaces against which the pair of side contact surfaces of the cutting insert are pressed when a tightening element pulls the head rearward toward the side support surfaces. The basic body is solid by being formed integrally of steel material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shutter system operable between an open position, and a closed position operable to avoid unintended exposure of a surface to radiant flux, wherein said shutter system comprises at least one pair of shields, and an axis for each shield, wherein a first axis is connected to an end part of a first shield, and coincides with the turning axis of the first shield, wherein a second axis, in the shape of an angled arm, is connected to an end part of a second shield and the turning axis of the second shield is parallel to the turning axis of said first shield and is arranged at a distance from the second shield.

Abstract: A double-sided indexable cutting bit has the basic shape of a prism with cutting edges along a part of the intersection lines of the peripherally extending faces with the upper and lower faces and no cutting edges at another part of the intersection lines of side faces with the upper and lower faces. An indexable bit holder has a first support face for supporting an indexable cutting bit. In respect of the indexable cutting bit, in plan view on to the upper or lower face, at least a part of the side faces respectively has at least one respective concave recess that is adapted to receive a support element. In respect of the indexable bit holder, two support elements extend from oppositely disposed portions of the support face substantially perpendicularly to the first support face, which support elements define respective further second and third support faces that are perpendicular to the first support face and that face towards each other.

Abstract: A crushing apparatus has a gyratory crusher, which has an inner shell, an outer shell and an eccentric. A lubricating system is arranged to conduct a lubricant to at least one movable part, such as the eccentric of the gyratory crusher. The lubricating system has an oil sump, which collects the lubricant after it has been used for lubrication of the movable part, and a valve mechanism, which is arranged to apportion a lubricant flow in the crusher. The valve mechanism is arranged to assume a first position, in which a first sub-volume of the lubricant flow is conducted directly to the movable part for lubrication of the same and a second sub-volume is conducted directly to the oil sump, the second sub-volume constituting from about 30 to about 100% of the lubricant flow, and a second position, in which at least about 90% of the lubricant flow is conducted to the movable part for lubrication of the same.

Abstract: A back reamer includes a drive stem configured to support a main reamer body, the main reamer body including a plurality of receptacles, and a plurality of cutting leg assemblies in positive locking engagement with the plurality of receptacles to restrict radial movement of the cutting leg assemblies.

Abstract: A drilling tool of the loose top type includes a basic body having two bendable branches having inner support surfaces that are resiliently pressable against side contact surfaces of a replaceable loose top. The mounting of the loose top is affected by turning-in from an initial position to an operative end position. An abutting edge along each side contact surface then bends out the branches and subjects the branches to a spring force that reaches a maximum in a dead position so as to then decrease somewhat up to the operative end position. During the final phase of the rotary motion, the operator obtains, in a tactile and/or auditory way, confirmation of the loose top indeed reaching its operative end position.

Abstract: A loose top for drilling tools, including front and rear ends, a pair of envelope part surfaces concentric with a center axis, and two chip flutes countersunk in relation to the pair of envelope part surfaces between which two bars project radially from a central core, the front end including a cutting edge and at least one clearance surface positioned rotationally behind the cutting edge, the rear end forming an axial contact surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing dust when breaking rock, to a dust separator, and further to a rock-drilling rig. Rock material and air sucked from a borehole or some other operating location is separated from each other in the dust separator. The separated rock material falls into a discharge part of the dust separator, from which it can be dosed in batches into a discharging device. The discharging device comprises a closed compression space in which the rock material batch is compressed into a more compact state. This forms a solid matter cake that is removed from the dust separator.

Abstract: A drill of the loose top type, which is composed of a basic body and a replaceable loose top. In the front end of the basic body, a jaw is formed, which is delimited by two elastically bendable branches and an intermediate axial support surface, and in which the loose top can be securely pinched by inner support surfaces of the branches being resiliently pressed against side contact surfaces of the loose top. The two side contact surfaces of the loose top extend rearward from clearance surfaces that are included in the front end of the loose top. By forming the diametrical dimension between opposite side contact surfaces greater nearer the front end of the loose top, the branches of the jaw securely pinch the loose top in the area of the front ends thereof, where the branches have their maximal bending capacity.

Abstract: A rotatable tool for chip removing machining, including a basic body having front and rear ends between which a first center axis (C1) extends around which the basic body is rotatable, and a loose top having front and rear ends between which a second center axis (C2) extends. The front end of the basic body includes a jaw which is delimited by two torque-transferring drivers and an intermediate bottom in which a part of the loose top is receivable, and a center hole that mouths in the bottom of the jaw and has a hole wall which extends axially inside the basic body and in which a threaded hole mouths for a screw to co-operate with a centering pin that protrudes axially rearward from the loose top, the centering pin being insertable into the center hole. The centering pin has a cross-sectional area that is less than a cross-sectional area of the center hole.