A safety control system for arresting skips

摘要

827,841. Minetruck brakes. WATTS, BLAKE, BEARNE & CO. Ltd. April 16, 1958 [April 18, 1957], No. 12695/57. Class 103 (1). In an arrester system for runaway skips or trucks, arrester wires are stretched across the track at a predetermined height and connected to the tops of spaced-apart posts 13, the operation of a centrifugal clutch (not shown) on the mine skip releasing a spring-loaded telescopic arm 8, which swings up and extends so that the hook 10 at the upper end thereof catches the first transverse arrester wire 11 that it meets. Specification 827,840 is referred to.