Abstract: A transmission for transmitting drive from a motor to a drive sprocket wheel for driving the drive chain of a mineral mining plough has a housing which is attached to a side plate of the drive frame of a mine conveyor. The housing is formed with a recess sized and shaped to accommodate the sprocket wheel. The recess is open at one end to permit the plough drive chain to enter and leave the sprocket wheel. The housing is provided with connector flanges adjacent to the end remote from the recess opening, and with a spacer adjacent to the end adjacent to the recess opening. The spacer is detachably secured to the housing and to the drive frame, or to an intermediate channel section which joins the drive frame to a scraper-chain conveyor. The spacer and the flanges are bolted to the drive frame and/or the channel section.

Abstract: A mine working machine employs a main drive transmission with a vertical driven output shaft carrying a gearwheel which can be interchanged with a chain wheel for effecting a chain drive. For a chainless drive, an auxiliary transmission with a housing covering the gearwheel is attached to the machine body or the housing of the main drive transmission. The auxiliary transmission employs rotatable upstanding shafts located at the goaf side of the machine and in the auxiliary housing. The shafts carry gearwheels at their upper ends meshing with the driven gear wheel and pinions at their lower ends meshing with a multi-part rack extending along the path of movement of the machine.

Abstract: A longwall conveyor composed of channel sections arranged end-to-end and a scraper-chain assembly moved to transfer material along the channel sections has a main drive station at one end and an auxiliary drive station at the other end. Each drive station has a frame rotatably supporting a drum around which is entrained the scraper-chain assembly. Drive motor and gearing units are carried by the frames and drive the drums. At each drive station there is a housing in which a sprocket wheel drivably engages with a chain used to haul a plough or a similar machine along the conveyor. Drive motor and gearing units are supported by the housings and drive the sprocket wheels. The housing and sprocket wheel at the main drive station is slidably mounted on the frame and a piston and cylinder unit effects slidable displacement of the housing to vary the tension in the drive chain.