Abstract: For inserting anchor bolts in the region of the tunnel side wall up to near to the face, in addition to anchor bolt drilling and setting devices for the roof in the front region of the road-driving machine additional anchor bolt and setting devices are mounted displaceably guided in a vertical direction. The additional anchor bolt drilling and setting devices are swivellable around an axis which is parallel to the running surface plane of the drive mechanism of the road-driving machine.

Abstract: A cutter machine has cutter heads or rollers rotatably mounted on a pivoting cutter arm. It also has a loading ramp and a conveyor running in a direction towards the work face of the cutter machine to take up and convey away cut material. The cutter arm is mounted on a sliding carriage which is displaceable along guides running in the longitudinal direction of the machine. The carriage is configured as a self-supporting box profile in a clear cross-section space of which a removal conveyor is mounted so that it may slide. For this reason, the cutter machine is particularly well-suited for use in small seam heights and for particularly low constructional design. It may nonetheless be used satisfactorily for operating reliably over a variable tunnel width.

Abstract: A system for shifting won minerals with a continuous conveyor such as a belt or chain conveyor has a machine frame and a shovel pivotably coupled to booms. The booms are aligned in a vertically pivotable manner with a rocker arm that is pivotably coupled to the front end of the machine frame. The booms and the rocker arm are connected to the front end of the machine frame by hydraulic cylinder units. The loading shovel is swivel-mounted about at least one essentially horizontal axle to dump the debris into a feed chute provided at the front end area of the continuous conveyor. The rocker arm has at least one hydraulic cylinder unit supported at the front end of the machine frame and behind the corresponding rocker arm support to provide a compact design with improved load-bearing capacity and a reduced danger of tipping.

Abstract: A roof support for the ceilings of excavated spaces underground and particularly for supporting caving edges for pillar recovery in coal mines is described. The roof support has a roof bar connected to a base frame by hydraulically extendable props and by a lemniscate mechanism. The props are articulated to the base frame and to the roof bar. A link of the lemniscate mechanism has a predetermined bending point. Since this link fails when overloaded before the remainder of the apparatus, it is the only element that need be replaced when the apparatus is overloaded. Thus, the device may be economically repaired.