Dig More Effectively with Our Unique TriPower Front Shovel Design
You will experience safer, easier and faster front shovel operation with TriPower, a system proven on over a thousand Cat hydraulic mining shovels worldwide. Generating superior mechanical leverage and control, our FS configured hydraulic mining shovels utilize a unique boom design that employs rotatable triangular rockers. This design facilitates quicker cycle times, increased effective lifting force, constant boom momentum, automatic constant bucket angle, and automatic roll-back limiter.
• Quicker Cycle Times
– Faster lifting speeds are achieved, because the design enables the use of smaller-diameter boom cylinders.
• Increased Effective Lifting Force
– Design transfers digging forces into the superstructure, creating supporting boom momentum in addition to momentum that is generated hydraulically.
• Constant Boom Momentum
– Allows smaller boom cylinders for higher lifting speed.
– Keeps lifting speed constant.
– Enables the shovel to lift a single load along the entire digging distance.
– No retracting of stick cylinders is required, ensuring that all hydraulic pumps are supplying the boom-up function.
• Automatic Constant Bucket Angle
– Material spillage is avoided during boom lifting, because the filled bucket automatically maintains a constant bucket angle.
– On conventional kinematics the operator has to control manually the bucket position during lifting which cut in half the available oil flow for the boom cylinders.
• Automatic Roll-Back Limiter
– Preventing material spillage back on to the operator's cab and machine superstructure, our system ensures that the bucket is always in a safe position, without operator control/manipulation, when it is at maximum height.
– The boom cylinder continues to receive maximum oil flow, because the operator does not need to activate the bucket cylinder.