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INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................. 3 SUSPENSION EQUIPMENT DESIGN .......................................................................................................... 3 SUSPENSION EQUIPMENT STEELS .......................................................................................................... 4 PRODUCT QUALITY ASSURANCE ............................................................................................................. 4 SECTION 1 SINGLE ROPE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS ................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 5 WEDGE TYPE CAPELS................................................................................................................................ 7 WHITE METAL (OR RESIN) FILLED WIRE ROPE SOCKETS ..................................................................... 9 DETACHING HOOKS ................................................................................................................................. 11 KING STYLE DETACHING HOOK .............................................................................................................. 13 HUMBLE TYPE DETACHING HOOK .......................................................................................................... 15 SECTION 2 MULTI ROPE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS ................................................................................. 16 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 16 WHITE METAL (OR RESIN) FILLED WIRE ROPE SOCKETS ................................................................... 18 THIMBLE CAPEL ........................................................................................................................................ 20 FINE ADJUSTMENT LINKAGES................................................................................................................. 22 SECTION 3 BALANCE ROPE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS............................................................................ 24 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 24 INVERTED WEDGE CAPELS ..................................................................................................................... 26 WHITE METAL (OR RESIN) FILLED WIRE ROPE SOCKETS ................................................................... 28 WIRE ROPE THIMBLES ............................................................................................................................. 30 WIRE ROPE SWIVELS ............................................................................................................................... 32 SECTION 4 MANOEUVRING & GUIDE ROPE EQUIPMENT ...................................................................... 37 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 37 WEDGE SUSPENSION GLANDS ............................................................................................................... 39 SECTION 5 SPECIALISED SHAFT SINKING EQUIPMENT ........................................................................ 45 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 45 JACK CATCH SOCKETS ............................................................................................................................ 47 SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT ............................................................................................. 49 CAGES & SKIPS ......................................................................................................................................... 49 CONTACT DETAILS ....................................................................................................................................... 51
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INTRODUCTION
Reliance Hexham Pty Ltd is a major Australian manufacturer of mining machinery. The company has specialised in the manufacture of suspension equipment for 20 years. A full range of suspension equipment is manufactured for single rope, multi rope, balance rope and guide rope systems, rope handling and shaft sinking operations. The product range includes the two internationally recognised detaching hooks: King and Humble the two major types of Capel: wedge and thimble and a wide range of chase blocks, sockets, links, drawbars and swivels. As well as standard suspension equipment fittings, the company has developed special purpose fittings such as inverted wedge capels, jack catch sockets and inserted cone and tail sockets. The companys staff prides themselves with their attention to quality, commitment to service and innovativeness to develop the most cost effective design solutions. Reliance Hexham has facilities to undertake all aspects of suspension equipment supply. This includes the latest 3D drawing programmes, CNC machining, forging, heat treatment and nationally accredited proof load test facilities.
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Under no circumstances should a Capel be fitted to a wire rope without the white metal (or resin) safety block. Also, it is considered bad practice to use their interlocking wedges and Capel bands from another Capel. Capel component are custom made, and the Capel should be considered an integral part. Reliance Hexham engineers have endeavoured to design the Reliance product range to be interchangeable with suspension equipment supplied by the other manufacturers. Should you require a size not shown in the table, or should the size for the fitting not match your fitting, please let us know. In many instances, custom designed fittings can be supplied or modifications made to our standard range. Should it be necessary to supply non-standard design, we will as a matter of course supply full design calculations in addition to our normal quality assurance checks and certification.
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DETACHING HOOKS
A detaching hook is a statutory safety device used in drum winding installations. Its purpose is to detach the mine conveyance from the hoisting rope in the event of the winder failing to stop in the headframe and overwinding. For installations which do not incorporate an overwind safety catch, the detaching hook has the additional function of catching and supporting the conveyance in the headframe. Reliance Hexham manufactures the two styles of detaching hooks: Humble and King. The two hooks operate on similar principles using a catch plate. A detaching hook is activated as it passes through a bell or catch plate. The shear pin, which holds the detaching hook in the closed position, is sheared. The detaching hook is forced open, and locked in the open position. This releases the wire rope from the detaching hook. The hook and conveyance falls back under gravity, but is caught by the ball or catch plate. All Reliance Hexham hooks are carefully designed for static and dynamic load conditions with a static factor of safety of at least 10 to 1 and a fatigue reserve factor of 1:3. The hooks are manufactured from approved 1.5% manganese or nickel chrome molybdenum alloy steel, and heat treated in accordance with national mining standards. They are designed to operate automatically in event of overwind, and withstand the substantial fall-back stresses that follow hook detachment. All hooks are designed so that they can easily be reset to the locked position and released from the catch plate or bell. Although the detaching hook may never be called to operation in a real life situation. Careful thought must go into the selection of the hook and associated suspension equipment components. It is important when ordering a detaching hook to check out clearances and ensure other suspension fittings, and winder head frame structures do not foul the hooks operation. When ordering detaching hooks, please specify the type of detaching hook which are King, Improved King, Humble, Improved Humble. Please also specify the following; Reliance Hexham part number of the detaching hook The safe working static load Engineering details showing A general arrangement of suspension equipment above and below the hook Pin diameter of the mating fitting above and below the detaching hook Location of the sheave wheel with respect to the catch plate or bell. Diameter of catch plate hole, and centre distance of mounting holes
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THIMBLE CAPEL
The thimble Capel is being used more widely with the multi-rope friction winders. The main advantage of thimble capels over wedge capels is in rope capping and rope tensioning. With wedge capels, the rope must be cut to length before capping. With thimble capels, the rope can be cut after the rope is capped. This avoids the possibility of cutting too much, or too little off the end of the rope. Thimble Capel also eliminate the for expensive adjustment linkage for accommodating rope stretch on friction winding hoist ropes. The thimble works on the principle of self tightening wedges gripping the wire rope. The greater the load on the wire rope, the greater the thimble Capel grips on the wire rope. The wire rope is laid around the thimble and pulled hard into two wedge shoes. The vertical shoe ensures the rope centre-line coincides with the centre of the Capel connecting pin to eliminate bending stresses. The other shoe is pivoted to ensure it lines up with the thimble and grips the wire rope along its whole length. Adjusting the Capel is a straight forward process. An adjustment whole is drilled through the outer plates and through the thimble. The thimble is pulled back to give clearance at the wedges and a bar is inserted through the outer plates and thimble. The wire rope may then be pulled around the thimble for rope capping and tensioning. The thimble Capel, however, is not used on single rope drum winder installations. It is too wide to pass through the detaching hook catch plate or bell.
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Under no circumstances should a Capel be fitted to the wire rope without the safety clamp.
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INTRODUCTION
One of the difficulties of wire rope is manoeuvring the rope onto the position and tensioning the rope. The Reliance Hexham range of wedge suspension glands were designed to make it much easier to move, reposition, manoeuvre and tension locked coil and stranded wire rope. The wedge suspension glands may be used as a permanent rope anchor fitting, or may be used for just manoeuvring and pre-tensioning the wire rope while the permanent fitting is installed in position. In mining applications, the wedge suspension gland may be used for manoeuvring hoist, balance, guide and rubbing ropes during installation and maintenance. Wire rope or chain pullers may be connected by a shackle t the wedge suspension to pull and tension the wire rope into the correct position. Where the wedge suspension glands are used for suspending guide, and rubbing ropes, the gland boxes have a drilled rectangular base for bolting the wedge suspension gland permanently in position. The wedge suspension gland can also be fitted with a spherical seat to allow for misalignment between the wire rope and the gland. The spherically seated gland is very suitable for rubbing ropes. The spherical seat allows the rubbing rope to be turned periodically to even the wear around the ropes surface. Wedge suspension glands have been used in many applications outside the mining industry. The glands have been used for erecting large tower structures, for securing mooring cables on North Sea oil drilling rigs and building large suspension bridges. In fact they can be used in any application where larger diameter wire rope is used. The Reliance Hexham wedge suspension glands are built for rugged use. The glands are generously sized and machined from steel billet.
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CONTACT DETAILS 100 Old Maitland Rd, HEXHAM NSW 2322 AUSTRALIA PO Box 489, MAYFIELD NSW 2304 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 4964 8500 Fax: +61 2 4964 8152
www.reliancehexham.com.au
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