Patent ID: 7896445

Claim:
An apparatus for the milling and/or drilling cutting of materials, in particular for the removal of rock, minerals or coal, the apparatus comprising a tool drum which is mounted on a drum carrier and which is rotatable about a drum axis, a plurality of tool shafts having ends and which carry cutting tools at their ends, the tool shafts projecting from the tool drum and are each rotatable and drivable mounted about a shaft axis, at least two of the tool shafts being drivable by a common gear drive and the gear drive including a power take-off gearwheel arranged fixedly in terms of rotation on the tool shafts and a common drive element which cooperates with the power take-off gearwheels, the drive element and the tool drum being rotatable in relation to one another, the shaft axes of the tool shafts stand transversely to the drum axis.