1983 年 99 巻 1146 号 p. 695-698
The main transportation system at Kushiro Colliery is constituted of large winding machine at the trunk drift, and trolley wire locomotive or battery locomotive at level.
However, free haul with battery locomotive is restricted by the undulation due to the folds and faults. Therefore transportation of mine car has depended on main and tail haulage system using two small winding machines. However, this system has many difficult problems, e. g. number of workers, operations and maintenance. In order to solve this problem endless rope haulage system was developed in January 1981.
This endless rope haulage system has been driven with one winding machine, and adopted remote control technique by radio equipment. Although this system was used only for material transport at the beginning, possibility for transport of workers was examined in 1982 from which we aquired good result of this system. Then, several improvement and development of new apparatus have been done and safety of man car haulage by endless rope haulage system has been ensured.