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(11) EP 0 198 643 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
04.02.1987 Bulletin 1987/06

(43) Date of publication A2:
22.10.1986 Bulletin 1986/43

(21) Application number: 86302552

(22) Date of filing: 07.04.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR

(30) Priority: 10.04.1985 GB 8509143

(71) Applicant: ANDERSON STRATHCLYDE PLC
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(72) Inventor:
  • Brown, Henry McGaw
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(54) Mineral cutting picks


(57) The invention provides a method of, apparatus for, flushing with water a mineral cutter pick of the kind having a head (5) terminated with a hard cutting tip (6), in which one or more jets of water (13) are directed from nozzles (12) in the pick holder (8) at the pick at an acute angle to the head of the pick so that the water strikes (14) the pick head and is carried forward over the surface of the pick head by its own momentum into the vicinity of the cutting tip.






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