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1 SCOPE 2
2 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS TO BE SPECIFIED BY THE ENGINEER 2
3 DEFINITIONS 2
4 REQUIREMENTS 3
4.1 GENERAL 3
4.2 SAFETY 4
4.3 INFORMATION TO BE SUPPLIED BY CONTRACTOR 4
4.4 FEEDER BREAKER COMPONENTS 5
4.5 LIFTING LUGS 11
4.6 SURFACE PREPARATION AND PAINTING 11
4.7 MANUFACTURING 12
5 QUALITY ASSURANCE PROVISIONS 12
6 PACKING AND MARKING REQUIREMENTS 12
6.1 LIFTING LUGS 12
6.2 NAMEPLATES 12
6.3 PROTECTIVE COATINGS 12
6.4 PACKING 12
APPENDIX A: RELATED DOCUMENTS 13
APPENDIX B: RECORD OF AMENDMENTS 13
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This specification covers the requirements for the design and manufacture of feeder
breakers for use in coal mines. Waiver of flame proofing shall be obtained in writing from
Anglo Technical for application in non-fiery mines. The specification is an adaptation of
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries MDG 31.
3 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this specification the following definitions shall apply
CONTROLS - : Controls that are infrequently used by the operator, e.g. start,
SECONDARY lights, test buttons.
FAIL TO SAFE : Any failure of the machinery (i.e. Feeder Breaker), its associated
(fail safe): safeguards, control circuits to its power supply that leaves the
machinery (Feeder Breaker) in a safe condition.
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IN-FEED : For the purposes of this guideline the in-feed conveyor may be
CONVEYOR any device which conveys material into the breaker section and
includes armoured scraper conveyors, vibro feeders, screens,
hoppers or gravity chutes.
OUT-FEED : For the purposes of this guideline the out-feed conveyor may be
CONVEYOR any device which conveys the sized product from the breaker
section to the conveyor belt system and includes armoured
scraper conveyors.
UT : Ultrasonic testing.
4 REQUIREMENTS
4.1 GENERAL
The feeder breaker shall be Contractor's standard design for the specified service.
Replacement parts for standard components shall be readily available.
The unit shall meet the performance requirements as defined under section 2 above.
No external surface shall exceed a temperature of 150°C under any condition of usage of
the equipment.
The materials of construction shall meet all requirements for the services stated at the rate
and conditions specified. The materials shall be in accordance with Manufacturer’s
standard practice for the intended service, unless the requirements listed below preclude
their use.
All material of construction for this equipment, its components and accessories shall be
new and suitable for the service and meet the requirements as specified under Section 2
of this document.
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4.2 SAFETY
All rotating equipment shall be provided with safety guards and devices as required to
comply with Anglo Fatal Risk Standard AA AFRS 5.
The feeder breaker shall comply with all flame-proofing regulations as detailed in section 2
above.
Nip guards shall be fitted to the tail pulley. In accordance with AA SPEC 375001-
Gaurding of Belt Conveyers. All nip points shall be painted red.
The feeder breaker shall be fitted with a Booyco anti-collision system or equivalent.
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The body shall have a design life of 40,000 operating hours. The deck shall have wear
protection where applicable. All welding shall conform to AWS 1.1.
4.4.2 Anchoring
Sufficient anchoring or feeder breaker mass shall be provided that would be necessary to
withstand twice the belt tension at the tail pulley, when taking into account that the tail
tension will increase as the conveyor length increases when sections develop.
4.4.3 Brakes
Wheeled Feeder Breaker units shall be provided with a means of locking the wheels when
the unit is not attached to a prime mover. This may be achieved by jacking systems which
remove the weight of the Feeder Breaker from the wheels or by wheel sprags. These
provisions shall be effective before the Feeder Breaker is detached from the prime mover.
Note: Consideration shall be given to the intended prime mover un-braked trailer mass and brakes fitted as
appropriate.
Self propelled Feeder Breakers shall be provided with brakes which can manually be
applied and automatically applied on loss of power to the traction drive system.
Note: Specific approval is required for electric brake motors and brake motor control and protection systems.
a) be fully enclosed spring applied brakes fitted directly to the traction drive assembly
(oil immersed multi-disc type is preferred). For any operational condition, the
surface temperature of the brake assembly shall not exceed 150°C;
b) fail to safe;
c) have provision to ensure that traction power cannot be applied unless the brakes
are released;
Fully loaded self propelled Feeder Breakers shall be capable of coming to a controlled
stop whilst tramming down the maximum operating gradient.
The contractor shall nominate the maximum gradients for safe operation of the Feeder
Breaker when fully loaded and empty.
A “dead-man” control if fitted shall apply the brake(s) as part of its function. Alternatively
the brakes shall apply automatically when power is removed from the traction drive
system.
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The foregoing requirements for traction drive braking systems are specifically confined to
mechanical systems and are additional to any alternative methods of braking.
The Feeder Breaker may be mounted on wheels or tracks to allow movement during belt
advancement and or retraction or be part of a fixed installation. Where tracks are
provided, these shall be powered.
Preference will be given to feeder breakers with “integrated tail-end” i.e. conveyor pulley /
tail-end must tram with the machine forward.
The tail pulley must be fitted with hydraulic cylinders for conveyor belt alignment. This
alignment must be achieved by means of remote control.
Pulley lagging shall be 10mm thick and will have diamond grooves.
The drop height of material from the Feeder breaker onto the belt shall not exceed
500 mm.
4.4.6 Dimension
The width of the feeder breaker gate shall not exceed 2/3 of installed belt width or the
receiving belt width will exceed this gate width by a factor 1.5.
4.4.7 Towing
Towing attachments, suitable for use with rigid draw bars, shall be designed to a minimum
factor of safety of 2.5 times the maximum rated gross weight of the Feeder Breaker when
travelling on the maximum allowable grade.
Provision shall be made for the connection of safety chains between the prime mover and
the Feeder Breaker where the combined rating of safety chain attachments equals the
maximum rated gross weight of the Feeder Breaker when travelling on the maximum
allowable grade.
Provision shall be made for the release of the traction brakes by external means for the
purpose of towing a disabled Feeder Breaker. With any provisions made to satisfy this
requirement it should not be possible to leave the Feeder Breaker parked without the
brakes applied when not attached to the prime mover (See also section 4.4.3).
4.4.8 Breaker
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All instrumentation should be colour coded to indicate normal and hazardous ranges as
per SAE J209 or clearly labelled to indicate hazardous ranges if the instrument does not
continually indicate.
Self propelled feeder breakers should have a green revolving light on the driver’s side and
a red revolving light on the blind side. These shall be clearly visible to people
approaching the breaker.
Suitably located water sprays shall be provided at the in-feed conveyor side of the breaker
for dust suppression. The following should be considered in the design of any dust
suppression system;
a) Water flow should be monitored to ensure that excess dust does not occur.
4.4.11 Gearboxes
Gearboxes shall be rated for continuous operation at maximum motor power for the
greatest gear ratio arrangement considered. Service factor shall be based on motor rating.
Peak torques up to transmission capacity shall not damage the gear set. Gearing shall be
designed and manufactured to AGMA quality level Q 6 or better.
Feeder breaker gear chamber, lubrication and hydraulic systems shall be of dust-tight and
moisture-tight construction.
Monitoring shall be provided for hydraulic systems oil level and temperature. Where
potential for overheating exists as a result of component malfunction then control shall be
installed to cut power to the hydraulic pump motor when set points of the monitoring
system are exceeded.
Flexible hoses shall be compatible with the hydraulic fluid used, the maximum system
pressure and operating temperature.
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The hose factor of safety shall be a minimum of 4 to 1 based on hose burst pressure to
maximum working pressure.
Hydraulic hoses shall be of flame resistant type and comply with type 1 or 3 hose
specifications as listed in ISO 6805.
Conveyor booms, levelling jacks and other items raised and lowered by hydraulic power
shall be fitted with a device which holds them stationary should loss of hydraulic pressure
occur anywhere between the hydraulic power source and the cylinder e.g. Hydraulic Load
Locking Valve.
The system shall be designed for easy maintenance and replacement of parts, without
draining of oil from reservoir and or lines.
All electrical components shall be flame proof where practicable. Where this is not
possible precaution shall be taken or be clearly labeled on the machine to reduce chances
of ignition of methane.
The motor rating and characteristics shall be suitable to start and run the driven
equipment in an ambient temperature and at the elevation given in section 2.
4.4.14 Controls
Sequence interlocking must be such that the any receiving conveyor(section belt) will
move before the discharging out-feed conveyor is started and that any discharging
conveyor is stopped before the receiving conveyor is stopped in order to prevent
excessive material over-run, unless chutes have been designed to store this material and
this excludes any emergency stops that must be done.
Feeder conveyor and breaker drive mechanism should not be energised when the Feeder
Breaker is being trammed.
Sequencing of the breaker drive and in-feed conveyor drive shall be such to prevent
overloading of the breaker assembly during start-up.
For radio control or other forms of remote control the following shall be specified by the
manufacturers;
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b) A safe system of operation including use of a spare transmitting unit, charging of the
batteries, changeover procedure and location of the spare unit.
Systems for control of the operation of Feeder Breaker which are duplicated i.e., have
local manual controls and radio remote control should be provided with the following
features:
a) The selection of either mode of control shall be designed with an effective interlock
to prevent the inadvertent operation of any controls associated with the unselected
mode with the exception of emergency stop devices.
b) Visual indication shall be provided at each point of control to indicate which mode
has been selected.
The electrical supply cable should be prevented from over tension, crushing or other
damage during tramming operations without requiring a person being located in a
potentially hazardous position.
Provision should be made to suitably restrain the trailing cable to the Feeder Breaker.
The mine should develop a trailing cable handling procedure which provides for safe
standing zones for personnel.
A means of isolating and locking out the incoming mains power supply to the Feeder
Breaker shall be provided for maintenance purposes. Such means of Isolation shall be
lockable and capable of withstanding the prospective maximum short circuit current at the
point of installation.
This isolation should include any interlocking with associated equipment such as in-feed
mechanisms and out-feed receiving conveyor systems.
Gear boxes which are operational while the Feeder Breaker is unmanned shall be fitted
with devices so that the oil level and temperature can be visually monitored and should be
provided with controls to cut power to the drive system in the event of excessive high
temperature.
Temperature monitoring of bearing assemblies fitted to conveyor idler, conveyor drive and
crusher shafts should be considered:
A five (5) second pre-start warning device shall be fitted to automatically alarm prior to the
starting of the conveyor or crusher. This warning device must be audible and/or visual.
Note: Pre-start warning devices shall be operational regardless of which form of control has been selected.
The feeder breaker shall be fitted with audible tramming and start-up alarms.
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All operating controls for hydraulically powered systems shall be designed to automatically
return to the “OFF” position on loss of power to the machine and/or loss of hydraulic
system pressure unless a control does not introduce a hazard on restart e.g. conveyor
speed select in which instance risk assessment process shall be used to assure the safety
of that function.
The receiving conveyor shall not be operated at speeds below that necessary to keep the
cross-sectional area of material on the belt below is allowed 100% loading profile. Such
minimum speeds shall be approved by the conveyor design engineer. This shall be
calculated at the maximum capacity delivered by the feeder breaker.
Emergency stop switches shall be provided to cut the power from all functions of the
equipment and be accessible;
a) from at least either end of the Feeder Breaker, but preferably along the full length of
the equipment;
c) by any person discharging material into the hopper e.g. shuttle car driver. (Tarzan
bar)
Note 1: Any emergency control device should be capable of being operated at all times regardless of
which form of control has been selected.
Note 2: If radio remote control is utilised and the portable control unit is taken out of transmitting range,
power to be automatically removed from the Feeder Breaker. Power shall only be capable of being
restored to the Feeder Breaker by selection of local manual controls at the Feeder Breaker.
• Controls Layout
a) Controls shall be laid out and designed to allow easy and safe operation and
to prevent confusion over allocation of controls to function or direction of
operation.
c) All primary controls including their displacement should be located with their
neutral position and, if possible, all other positions in the zone of comfort as
per SAE J898.
f) The distance between control levers, adjacent foot pedals, knobs, handles,
operator’s body and other machine parts shall be sufficient to allow
unhindered operation without unintentional actuation of adjacent controls.
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• Control Functions
Operating controls shall be clearly marked to show their functions and preferred
direction of movement controls as specified below:-
FUNCTION DIRECTION DIRECTION
EMERGENCY STOP “Stay Put” Red Push button or pull trip wire
ON Up, right, forward, clockwise, pull (push/pull type switch)
OFF Down, left, backward, anti-clockwise, push.
RIGHT Clockwise, right
LEFT Anti-clockwise, left
FORWARD Forward, down
REVERSE Backward, up
RAISE Up, back
LOWER Down, forward
EXTENDED Down, forward, pull
INCREASE Forward, away, right, clockwise
DECREASE Backward, toward, left, anti-clockwise
OPEN VALVE Anti-clockwise
CLOSE VALVE Clockwise
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Prior to painting, all surfaces shall be free of dirt, rust, grease, weld splatter, loose scale or
other deleterious substances.
Surface preparation, prime and finish paint and application procedures shall be as
prescribed by the Engineer for the specific application (AA SPEC 164000 can be used as
guideline). The Contractor may submit his standard surface protection system for
acceptance by the Engineer. Paint colour will be specified by the Engineer.
Touch up paints shall be supplied in sufficient quantity for field touch up painting.
4.7 MANUFACTURING
Construction of the feeder breaker shall comply with Section 5 below of this specification
Quality Assurance, Inspection and Testing.
6.2 NAMEPLATES
Feeder breaker components shall be identified by permanent serial number. Other
equipment shall have permanent stainless steel nameplates attached that contain all
pertinent identification and size information.
6.4 PACKING
Each item or sub-assembly shall be packed such that it is protected from damage and the
elements during transport.
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Unless otherwise stated the latest issue of the following documents shall be deemed to form part of
this specification.
ISO 6805 : Rubber Hoses and Hose Assemblies for Underground mining - Wire
Reinforced Hydraulic Types for Coal Mining - Specification
SAE J209 : Instrument Face Design and location for Construction and Industrial
Equipment
SAE J898 : Control Locations for Off- Road Vehicles
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