Mine Shaft Cable Clamps
Date 2020
Project Name Woodsmith Mine
Project Location North Yorkshire
Scope of supply Bespoke Brackets
Ellis Project# 1446 & 1576
Requirement
• Woodsmith Mine required a cleat solution for existing brackets in a vertical access tunnel to a mine shaft.
• Needed to accommodate various cable types.
• Brackets already installed in the shaft, requiring the solution to interface seamlessly with them.
Solution
• Testing and Experimentation: Ellis received cable and bracket samples and conducted experiments in their in-house test facility.
• Development and Design: Created new designs based on test results and produced manufacturing drawings.
• The material and size validation was supported by hand and FEA calculations.
• Two solutions were provided, one using an existing design and one an entirely new solution. Both designs were required and the products produced by Ellis.
• Drawings were supplied including part numbers for project documentation pack.
Testing concept designs with customers cable in Ellis on site test facility
3D Model of customers bracket in blue with adaptor bracket and Ellis Phoenix cleats
3D Model bracket and cable
Completed part installed on customer supplied bracket.