Excavators perform continuous development, transportation and unloading of the soil are performed simultaneously and continuously. Compared with cars of cyclical action, they provide higher performance, they are successfully used for large volumes of overburden operations, mining, digging ditches, canals, embankments and other profiling earthworks. According to the method of continuous excavators of the share on the machine longitudinal, radial and cross-digging, by type of work equipment – chain (scraper and shovel), and rotary screw, the carrier takes on – for tracked, wheeled rail, Walking, pneumatic, and sometimes excavation equipment can be mounted on cars or tractors. Chain-bucket excavators small models are used in quarries and in the warehouses of raw brick factories. Excavators fitted with a telescopic system with track support, used for cleaning drainage channels, chain bucket excavator bucket with a vertical frame can develop not only the trench, but trenches with vertical walls.
Mounted scraper chain trenching equipment on a tractor "Belarus" are developing a trench depth of 1.6 m, width up to 0.4 m. The soil, developed and raised by scrapers moves horizontal auger on both sides of the trench. Twin-kanalokopatel is to develop a channel depth of 1.7 m from the initiation of slope 1:1. As a working member of chain trenchers except bucket used pluzhki, scrapers and chisels, as well as additional to the basic screw the working bodies for the development of slopes or to move the developed soil. A large number of buckets, scrapers and other working bodies ensures the continuity of the excavator.
The number of buckets is discharged ssypok 0.5 … 3 per second and a ground move a continuous stream. Use as working bodies of the scraper 220 and provides a more unloading per minute. In addition, a large number of workers reduces the force on a bucket and the inertia, provides better use of vehicles, reduces the shock to them when completing and improves the performance of the machine. Many of these machines have a higher specific efforts in Q1. cm section of chips, usually at least 0.7 MPa, and the machines with high digging forces than 1.2 … 1.5 MPa, which gives opportunity to develop their frozen ground. Chain excavators provide the straightness of the trajectory of buckets and work so precisely planned slopes.