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DUCKBILL LOADER [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

A machine for loading coal, ore, or rock usually in headings or tunnels [that] consists of a wide flat shovel which is forced into the loose material along the floor by the forward motion of the conveyor.

OBS

The shaking motion of the conveyor brings the material backwards and is loaded into cars or a conveyor. It works at its maximum efficiency to the rise or in flat tunnels. The American version of the shaker-shovel is called the duckbill loader.

Key term(s)
  • shaker shovel loader

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
CONT

Couloir oscillant, ancien dispositif de chargement et transport du minerai abattu constitué par un couloir métallique en auge, terminé par une extrémité aplatie et élargie, qui reproduisait, par oscillations longitudinales, le mouvement d'une pelle.

Spanish

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