Designing process of a toothed segment of the KOMTRACK haulage system

The following stages of a designing process of the toothed haulage segment are presented in the article. The toothed segment, developed within the framework of the KOMTRACK project, is an element of an innovative haulage system for highly productive longwall complexes. The project, according to the Contract No. POIR.04.01.04-00-0068/17, realized by the consortium: KOMAG, AGH University of Science and Technology, Foundry Institute, Specodlew Innovative Enterprise of Foundry Engineering, Ltd. and Polish Mining Group, J.S.C., is co-financed with the means of the European Regional Development Fund. The toothed bar, made of toothed segments of the haulage system, works together with the track wheel of a shearer haulage unit. A distinguishing feature of the newly designed haulage system, in relation to the system used at present, is its flexibility enabling individual toothed segments to adapt to longitudinal and transverse curvatures of the longwall conveyor track, which guarantees a correct cooperation with the track wheel.