EMP 080-240 Roof Support

Download PDF                                                           EMP-080-240 Powered Roof Support is designed as a system of support for the mining industry and could be used in inclined slopes of 45º and with coal seams up to 2.4 meters, by the procedure of longwall face method with shearer.

The main function of the powered Roof Support is to secure the working area, at the same time it serves as a support of the reaction efforts to the cuts and generates the efforts for the advance of the mining work through an advance mechanism that consist in moving the shearer and the conveyor or the guidance beam and then with support on the conveyor or rather to move the shield forward.