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2. Hoist (mining) - Wikipedia

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   A drum hoist (steel wire rope visible) and motor. In underground mining a hoist or winder [1] is used to raise and lower conveyances within the mine shaft.Modern hoists are normally powered using electric motors, historically with direct current drives utilizing Ward Leonard control machines and later solid-state converters (), however modern large hoists use alternating current drives that ...

3. Headframe - Wikipedia

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   The Kintore Headframe and winding drums in Broken Hill, New South Wales The steel headframe of the Ottiliae shaft (1876) in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the oldest existing headframe in Germany A headframe [ 1 ] ( gallows frame , [ 2 ] winding tower , [ 3 ] hoist frame , [ 3 ] pit frame , [ 3 ] shafthead frame , [ 3 ] headgear , [ 3 ] headstock ...

4. Hoist (device) - Wikipedia

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   Hoist atop an elevator. A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium.

5. Winding engine - Wikipedia

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   Electric hoist controllers have replaced proper winding engines in modern mining, but use electric motors that are also traditionally referred to as winding engines. Early winding engines were hand, or more usually horse powered. [1] Winding drum, with depth indicator to the left. The first powered winding engines were stationary steam engines.

6. Whim (mining) - Wikipedia

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   A whim, also called a whim gin or a horse capstan, is a device similar to a windlass which is used in mining for hauling materials to the surface. It comprises a capstan or a wide drum with a vertical axle. A rope is wound around the drum, with both ends traversing several pulleys and hanging down the mine shaft.

7. Dragline excavator - Wikipedia

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   The much larger type which is erected on site is commonly used in strip-mining operations to remove overburden above coal and more recently for oil sands mining. The largest heavy draglines are among the largest mobile land machines ever built, weighing up to 13,500 tons, while the smallest and most common of the site-erected type weigh around ...