Cable carriage and spill-plate housing assembly for a mining machine

摘要

A spill-plate housing protectively encloses a cable carriage including a pulley to form a reverse bend in a cable having one end connected to a mining machine while the cable extends along the internal duct in the housing. A tension reel includes a rope coupled to the cable carriage for advancing movement thereof within the spill-plate housing. The tension reel is supported at the end of the spill-plate housing opposite the end thereof from which the cable emerges. The cable includes an electrical power cable and hose which are separately carried by grooves in the pulley which may consist of two separate pulleys.