Abstract: A boring bar, such as for internal turning, includes a front pocket that is defined by a shelf-like surface and a ramp surface, an insert seat that is countersunk in the shelf surface and disposed asymmetrically in relation to a center axis, a chip flute that is countersunk in the outside of the bar is disposed on the same side of the center axis as the insert seat, and an internal channel that supplies a fluid to the front part of the bar. The fluid channel ends in an outlet mouth disposed on the side of the bar that is opposite the insert seat in order to guide a flow of the fluid past the insert seat toward the front opening of the chip flute.

Abstract: In a method for starting a crushing operation in a gyratory crusher in which rocks are passed through a crushing gap to be crushed, the following steps are carried out: (a) a driving device is started which causes a crushing head to execute a gyratory pendulum movement, and a first width of the crushing gap is set, (b) a supply of material to the gap is commenced, (c) the resulting load on the crusher is measured, (d) the width of the gap is adjusted so that the load approaches a desired value, (e) a measure which is representative of the width of the gap after adjustment, is read, and (f) such read measure is utilized for calculation of a gap width for use as a first width of the gap in carrying out step (a) of the next start-up of a crushing operation.

Abstract: A method of making a cutting insert includes: (i) forming a blank having a substrate and superhard material, the substrate having more than 4 pockets, the superhard material disposed within the pockets; (ii) removing cutting tips from the blank by cutting the blank along cutting lines; (iii) providing a cutting insert body having a plurality of cavities for receiving a corresponding number of cutting tips; (iv) inserting a cutting tip into each of the plurality of cavities; and (v) brazing the cutting tips to the cutting insert body. A related cutting insert includes: a cutting insert body having a plurality of cavities formed therein; a plurality of cutting tips, each of the plurality of cutting tips disposed in a respective cavity, the cutting tips having a geometry that provides a mechanical retention or lock when inserted into the cavities of the cutting insert body, the cutting tips further being brazed in the cutting insert body.

Abstract: Method of combustion with a gas burner having a burner head at one end of an inner gas pipe surrounded by an outer protective pipe, wherein gases from the burner head flow inside the inner pipe and inside the outer pipe and thereafter flow into an exhaust channel. The inner pipe terminates short of the burner head; a sleeve downstream of the burner head, is inserted into and/or placed concentrically with the inner pipe so that the sleeve orifice is located within the inner pipe; a gap is provided between the opening of the inner pipe and the sleeve. The gap is sized such that the mixture of fuel and combustion air from the burner head and recycled exhaust gases passing through the gap will be mixed in quantities at which the temperature of combustion will be lower than the temperature in which NOx is formed.

Abstract: A down-the-hole hammer includes a casing and a piston movable in the casing between a lowermost operating position and an uppermost operating position. A recess is provided between the piston and the casing so that the piston and the casing define an intermediate chamber between a top end of the piston and a bottom end of the piston. A passageway is provided between a source of pressurized fluid and the intermediate chamber such that, at all positions of the piston between the lowermost and the uppermost operating positions, the source of pressurized fluid is in flow communication with the intermediate chamber through the passageway. An opening in the piston at least partially defines the passageway.

Abstract: A method of crushing material includes the steps of feeding a first flow of material to be crushed to a rotor rotating around a vertical axis, the rotor accelerating the first flow of material towards an impact wall section, and feeding a second flow of material to be crushed into the path of the accelerated first flow of material. The second flow of material is fed in a direction having a substantially tangential component in relation to the rotor, such that the second flow of material will have a substantially tangential component of movement in relation to the rotor when reaching the path of the first flow of material. A crusher is adapted to feed the second flow of material such that it will have a substantially tangential component of movement in relation to the rotor when reaching the path of the first flow of material.

Abstract: The flexible tubing (2) is designed to transmit a thrust and a rotary torque to a drill body and to supply the drill body with pressurized hydraulic fluid. This flexible tubing (2) is externally or internally composed of a hydraulic hose (3) and, internally or externally depending on the case, a stapled tube (4). It comprises, at its ends, fittings (6) suitable for transmitting the thrust and the rotary torque. Application to rotary-percussion drilling devices using a “downhole hammer” for mining work.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotary tool for chip removing machining with at least one chip flute that extends in the longitudinal direction of the tool. The method involves preparing a mixture of a cemented carbide, cermet or ceramics powder and a carrier, such as a polymer, and placing the mixture in an extruding machine. The mixture is extruded in a feed direction by means of a die to form the diameter of the mixture body. The mixture body passes against a chisel which forms a chip flute in the outer periphery of the mixture body by chip-removing machining. When the chisel is displaced away from the mixture body, a non-fluted shaft portion is formed. By rotating the mixture body while contacted by the chisel, a helical chip flute can be formed. Alternatively, the body could be twisted after a straight flute has been formed, whereupon the flute becomes helical.

Abstract: An inner shell, which is intended for use in a gyratory crusher and which during crushing will rotate around its own center axis in a first direction, has at least one additional crusher surface. The additional crusher surface has, in horizontal projection and as seen in the first direction, a decreasing distance to the center axis. Large objects can be introduced between the additional crusher surface and an outer shell near a first end of the additional crusher surface in order to, near a second end of the additional crusher surface, be squeezed between the additional crusher surface and the outer shell and be crushed.

Abstract: A method, system and access station for passage control of mine vehicles. Mine vehicles are transferred between an operation area and a manual area through one or more access stations between which there is an intermediate space, to which the mine vehicle to be transferred can be driven. When the mine vehicle is in the intermediate space, at least one access gate is closed.

Abstract: A titanium based carbonitride alloy containing Ti, Nb, W, C, N and Co. The alloy also contains, in addition to Ti, 9-14 at % Co with only impurity levels of Ni and Fe, 1-<3 at % Nb, 3-8 at % W and has a C/(C+N) ratio of 0.50-0.75. The amount of undissolved Ti(C,N) cores should be kept between 26 and 37 vol % of the hard constituents, the balance being one or more complex carbonitrides containing Ti, Nb and W. The alloy is particularly useful for milling of steel.

Abstract: A rock drilling bit includes at least one button having a button sidewall and button bottom, the button sidewall and the button bottom having a button sidewall geometry and a button bottom geometry, respectively. The rock drilling bit further comprises a bit body having at least one button-receiving hole having a hole sidewall and a hole bottom, the hole sidewall and the hole bottom having a hole sidewall geometry complementary to the button sidewall geometry and a hole bottom geometry, and a deformable seat compressed between the buttom bottom and the hole bottom so that the seat conforms to a hole bottom geometry and the button bottom geometry. The seat comprises tin.

Abstract: An edge-carrying drill body intended for deep hole drilling, is rotatable around a central geometric axis and comprises a through-channel arranged for internal chip evacuation. The channel mouths in front and rear ends of the drill body. A front channel mouth is bridged-over by a bridge on which a plurality of cutting edges are formed, which edges are made integrally with the rest of the bridge. The front mouth includes inlets disposed in front of respective cutting edges with reference to the direction of rotation of the body.

Abstract: A drill bit intended for percussive rock drilling is formed to reduce the occurrence of cavitation during percussive drilling. The drill bit includes an integral skirt and at least one channel for transport of flush medium, such as water. The drill bit has a front face provided with buttons, which define a greatest first external diameter (D0). A recess with a female thread, such as a rope or trapezoid thread for percussive drilling, extends into the drill bit from a rear end face of the drill bit. The recess has an axial depth (L0). The external surface of the skirt includes a conical portion having an axial extension that is greater than one-eighth of the depth (L0) of the recess but smaller than the depth (L0) of the recess.

Abstract: A method of reducing the torque required to provide relative rotation of two connected members includes providing impacts at or adjacent the connection between the two members at a rate of at least two impacts per second. An apparatus for reducing the torque required to provide relative rotation of two connected members includes an impact member adapted to provide an impact to at least one of the connected members, a driver for driving the impact member, wherein the driver is operable to cause the impact member to automatically and repeatedly impact upon the at least one member.

Abstract: A method of generating a stress pulse, and an impact device. In the method, pressure fluid is fed as pressure pulses to a working chamber residing between the frame of the impact device and a tool such that the resulting force presses the tool towards the material to be processed. The impact device comprises a working chamber and device for conveying pressure fluid as pressure pulses thereto such that a force is produced between the frame of the impact device and a tool to press the tool towards the material to be processed.

Abstract: In a first aspect, the invention relates to an edge-carrying drill body (1) of the type that is intended for deep hole drilling, and which is rotatable around a geometric axis (C) as well as comprises a through channel (2) arranged for internal chip evacuation, which channel mouths in front and rear ends of the body. Characteristic of the invention is that one or more cutting edges (4) are made integrally with the rest of the body, more precisely from a hard material, such as cemented carbide or CERMET. In a second aspect, the invention also relates to a method for the manufacture of such a drill body. In a third aspect, the invention furthermore relates to a drilling tool for deep hole drilling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated cutting tool (e.g.—cemented carbide insert) useful for grooving or parting of steel or stainless steel components such as tubes and bars. The insert is characterised by a WC-Co-based cemented carbide substrate having a highly W-alloyed Co-binder phase and a hard and wear resistant coating including a multilayered structure of sublayers of the composition (TixAl1-x)N with a periodic and repeated variation of the Ti/Al ratio.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cemented carbide insert with excellent properties for machining of steels and stainless steels. The cemented carbide comprises WC and 4-25% Co. The WC-grains have an average grain size in the range 0.2-3.5 ?m and a narrow grain size distribution in the range 0-4.5 ?m. According to the method of the invention a cemented carbide cutting tool insert is made by mixing powders of WC, TiC, TaC and/or NbC, binder metal and pressing agent, drying preferably by spray drying, pressing to inserts and sintering. The method characterised in that a deagglomerated WC-powder with a narrow grain size distribution is used, that the powders of TiC, TaC and/or NbC are deagglomerated and that the mixing is wet mixing with no change in grain size or grain size distribution.

Abstract: Coated milling insert has a WC—Co cemented carbide with a low content of cubic carbides and a highly W-alloyed binder phase and a coating including an inner layer of TiCxNy with columnar grains followed by a layer of ?-Al2O3 and a top layer of TiN. The coated milling insert is particularly useful for milling of grey cast iron with or without cast skin under wet conditions at low and moderate cutting speeds and milling of nodular cast iron and compacted graphite iron with or without cast skin under wet conditions at moderate cutting speeds.

Abstract: A support structure for a vertically arranged combination household appliance, more particularly a front loading dryer assembly arranged above a top loading washer assembly, includes vertical main support members, horizontal members and other members. The structure adequately supports both appliance assemblies of the combination appliance during transportation and usage, provides improved operating performance during off balance washer spin conditions or dryer tumbling, and maintains unitary appliance characteristics by being an integral part of the combination appliance design and by being located entirely interior to the appliance cabinetry.