41 |
Method of and apparatus for building thin lining on tunnel |
US780254 |
1985-09-26 |
US4666336A |
1987-05-19 |
Susumu Murakami; Satoshi Fujita |
A method and an apparatus for building a thin lining on a tunnel to be excavated. The method includes the steps of boring a slot along an outer periphery of a cross section of the tunnel, filling lining material into the slot so as to form the lining material into the thin lining and removing bedrock surrounded by the thin lining so as to expose the thin lining. The apparatus includes a boring device for boring a slot in the tunnel and an injection device for injecting lining material into the slot. The boring device further includes a hollow frame, a plurality of rods fitted axially movably into the hollow frame, and a drive mechanism for rotating the rods and striking rear ends of the rods. |
42 |
Method and apparatus for transporting and housing tunnel workers active
in high pressure environments |
US950735 |
1978-10-12 |
US4196656A |
1980-04-08 |
Kenneth W. Wallace; Anthony V. Gaudiano |
A method and apparatus for increasing the safety and productivity of tunnel workers active in high pressure environments is disclosed. The workers are housed at an intermediate pressure over a "work week" of at least several days and are transported between the tunnel face and the life support chamber in which the workers are housed in a pressurized personnel transport chamber. The housing contains sanitary, sleeping, decompression, storage and dining facilities and is generally located at the tunnel entrance. In the preferred embodiment, the intermediate pressure is about half of the tunnel working pressure but not more than about 20 psig and preferably less than 17 psig. It is expected that a decreased incidence of bone related diseases and bends will result due to the reduced number of full decompressions from the tunnel work environment. |
43 |
Control method and system for ensuring stable boring operation at
working face during tunnelling with tunnel boring or shield machine |
US838248 |
1977-09-30 |
US4171848A |
1979-10-23 |
Kozo Ono |
In a tunnel boring or shield machine including a chamber defined between a working face and a bulkhead mounted in a machine frame of a shield machine body, means for controlling the amount of earth or muck conveyed to the exterior of the shield machine from the chamber in which earth is accumulated, and drive means for propelling the shield machine body toward and into the working face, a control method and system for ensuring stable boring operation at the working face by detecting the amount of earth or muck excavated or removed from the working face per unit time and the amount of earth or muck conveyed from the chamber per unit time, comparing these two detected values to generate an earth amount deviation signal representing the difference therebetween, controlling the amount of conveyed earth or muck and/or the amount of removed earth or muck in response to the earth amount deviation signal to maintain the earth pressure in the chamber within a predetermined range thereby ensuring stable tunnel boring operation without giving rise to breakdown of the exposed face or earth stratum and rising of the ground. |
44 |
Method and apparatus for transporting and housing tunnel workers active
in high pressure environments |
US843968 |
1977-10-20 |
US4144801A |
1979-03-20 |
Kenneth W. Wallace; Anthony V. Gaudiano |
A method and apparatus for increasing the safety and productivity of tunnel workers active in high pressure environments is disclosed. The workers are housed at an intermediate pressure over a "work week" of at least several days and are transported between the tunnel face and the life support chamber in which the workers are housed in a pressurized personnel transport chamber. The housing contains sanitary, sleeping, decompression, storage and dining facilities and is generally located at the tunnel entrance. In the preferred embodiment, the intermediate pressure is about half of the tunnel working pressure but not more than about 20 psig and preferably less than 17 psig. It is expected that a decreased incidence of bone related diseases and bends will result due to the reduced number of full decompressions from the tunnel work environment. |
45 |
Method and a device for drilling with several tools in simultaneous
operation |
US652617 |
1976-01-26 |
US4079795A |
1978-03-21 |
Wilfried Sackmann; Georg Hurtz; Fritz Tibussek |
A method for drilling boreholes utilizing a plurality of simultaneously operated boring tools. During a drilling operation the loading forces on the tools are measured and constantly compared with a predetermined limiting value representative of a limiting loading value and the variation of a limiting loading value with respect to time. If these limiting values are exceeded at least one working parameter of the tools is adjusted such as feed force, feed speed or track speed of the tools. Apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed. |
46 |
Method of driving and forming a tunnel with hydraulic boring machine |
US738271 |
1976-11-02 |
US4072021A |
1978-02-07 |
Hironobu Yamazaki |
A tunnel driving and forming method with hydraulic boring machine through mixed ground of stable and unstable layers which is simplified in equipments, less in air contamination and noises and high in working accuracy. The method comprises steps of driving the hydraulic boring machine into the ground to bore a tunnel therein, installing segments sequentially against bored tunnel wall right behind the machine as the same advances, impregnating a back-filling agent between said bored tunnel wall and outer periphery of installed segments, removing the rearmost set of a certain number of sets of said installed segments behind the machine for circulatory use as long as the ground bored is stable, reinforcing exposed surface of said back-filling agent impregnated and set, and repeating respective said steps responsive to advances of the machine. The removed sets of the segments are normally circulatorily used as sequentially installed at the foremost position of said certain number of sets adjacent tail end of the machine so long as the ground being bored is stable but, when an unstable ground layer is reached, the installed segments at the position facing such unstable layer are remained as installed so as to be a reinforcing wall for the unstable layer. |
47 |
Process and apparatus for driving tunnels in rock having zones differing in stability |
US3523426D |
1968-03-25 |
US3523426A |
1970-08-11 |
LAUBER ERNST |
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48 |
Method of and apparatus for driving a tunnel through and supporting earth structure |
US67899357 |
1957-08-19 |
US3138933A |
1964-06-30 |
FISHER KEMPER MAXWELL |
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49 |
Ditch cutting device |
US18606038 |
1938-01-21 |
US2167500A |
1939-07-25 |
REINHOLD DORNFELD; KONRAD HAAGE |
|
50 |
Means for forming circular tunneling. |
US14956617 |
1917-02-19 |
US1255207A |
1918-02-05 |
MORGAN JOHN W |
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51 |
ARTIFICIAL GROUND FREEZING METHOD AND ARTIFICIAL GROUND FREEZING SYSTEM |
US15537020 |
2015-04-22 |
US20170350087A1 |
2017-12-07 |
Yuichi TACHIWADA; Tsutomu TSUCHIYA; Takeru ARIIZUMI; Hiroshi SOMA |
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an artificial ground freezing method having good coolant thermal efficiency without a gas-phase coolant being released into the ground or into the air. For that purpose, the present invention has: a freeze pipe (1: casing) for freezing the ground buried in the ground and a coolant circulation pipe (2) provided on the inside of the freeze pipe (1), wherein the coolant flowing inside the coolant circulation pipe (2) is carbon dioxide; and a coolant apparatus (10) that cools and supplies the carbon dioxide to the coolant circulation pipe (2), the coolant circulation pipe (2) comprising a first coolant circulation pipe (2A) on which a plurality of micro-coolant passages (2A delta) is formed, wherein the tip portion (tip portion in the ground) of the first coolant circulation pipe (2A) is connected to a plugging member (3: bottom socket) that connects the plurality of micro-coolant passages (2A delta) of the first coolant circulation pipe (2A) to a coolant supply side and coolant return side. |
52 |
Method and apparatus for forming tunnels and tunnels formed thereby |
US14762067 |
2014-01-24 |
US09702094B2 |
2017-07-11 |
James Crawford Thomson |
A method of forming tunnels(6), and tunnels formed thereby, said tunnels in one embodiment being of a form to carry transport routes (1) such as rail and road transport therealong. The method allows the tunnel to be formed from one or more access points (2) by allowing the tunnel structure (6) to be progressively extended out from the tunnel by advancing deck structures (24) along guide means (20) which are formed as part of a base structure (18). The deck structures (24) can also be used to support excavation equipment (28) and/or act as transport routes for access to the leading edge of the tunnel as it is formed. This greatly reduces the need for separate access and works to be provided adjacent to the tunnel as it is formed and therefore reduces the level of reinstatement works required after the tunnel has been formed. |
53 |
Bit replacing device for excavating machine |
US13520352 |
2010-12-16 |
US08540319B2 |
2013-09-24 |
Yasuharu Hanaoka |
A valve containing portion (35) is formed behind a bit containing portion (34) which opens at the front surface of a main cutter spoke (21). A rotary valve (39) is rotatably disposed in the valve containing portion (35). A bit case (41) containing a roller bit (31) is moved so as to protrude from an attachment/detachment path (39) formed in a rotary valve (38) into the bit containing portion (34), and is fixed by a cotter (38) to support an excavating reactive force. Thus, the sliding gap of the rotary valve (39) is disposed in the bit containing portion (34) and the valve containing portion (35) to be covered with the bit case (41). |
54 |
MODIFICATIONS TO A TBM STRUCTURE TO PROVIDE ROOF SUPPORT INSTALLATION |
US12737356 |
2009-01-30 |
US20110103892A1 |
2011-05-05 |
Michael P. McNally |
A TBM having a cylindrically shaped member located on said TBM just behind the rotating boring head, said member being of similar diameter as said tunnel and comprising sectionalized components so as to be adjustable in diameter, said member having a plurality of steel angle members welded to the surface of the top-most component so as to extend axially along the length of said cylindrically shaped member, said steel angle members forming axially extending receptacles therein. |
55 |
UNDERGROUND MINING APPARATUS |
US12377725 |
2007-08-14 |
US20100284748A1 |
2010-11-11 |
Neil Deryck Bray Graham; Arthur Derrick Bray Graham |
An underground mining apparatus includes a mining head for moving through underground material to extract material in its path and form a passageway behind the mining head as it advances. An elongate structure extends along the passageway to the mining head and provides a path for delivering the extracted material to ground surface. A shroud is positioned about the elongate structure for supporting engagement with the periphery of the passageway and to provide a space through which the elongate structure can move. The shroud has a cross-sectional shape corresponding generally to the cross-sectional shape of the passageway formed by the mining head. A method is also disclosed. |
56 |
Method, system and device for building a wall in the ground |
US09113017 |
1998-07-06 |
US06357965B2 |
2002-03-19 |
Marinus Chr. Lammertink; Rutger Chr. van Voorden; René Broeder |
A wall is built in the ground by pulling a wall building device having cross-sectional dimensions which are substantially equal to the dimensions of at least a part of the cross-section of the wall through the ground, at least a part of the wall being formed by injecting a hardenable material behind the wall building device. A tunnel is made by first making a tunnel wall, leaving the ground inside the tunnel wall substantially intact, followed by excavating the ground inside the tunnel wall. |
57 |
Jet excavating device |
US09796608 |
2001-03-02 |
US20010035674A1 |
2001-11-01 |
Rogier
Cristian
Koene; Rokus
Van Den
Bout; Frits-Jan
Koppert; Cornelis
Van
Zandwijk |
An excavating device configured to form a channel of predetermined cross section in the ground in an excavation direction. The excavating device includes an assembly of jet excavating units which together define the cross section of the channel and are each provided with at least one jet device. The excavating device also includes at least one sensor which is connected to at least one of the jet excavating units for measuring a force which is exerted on the jet excavating units by the ground substantially parallel to the excavation direction. A controller is provided for controlling the excavation by the excavating device on the basis of the force measured by the at least one sensor. The controller is adapted to set a flow rate of jet liquid which is used in at least one jet device. |
58 |
Tunnel lining method and apparatus suitable for the purpose |
US958511 |
1992-10-08 |
US5290125A |
1994-03-01 |
Davide Trevisani |
In a tunnel lining method an apparatus, comprising at least one excavation tool of the chain, belt or band type or the like, is positioned to coincide with the longitudinal axis of the tunnel at a point on its extrados; the tool is made to advance to a predetermined depth in a direction diverging from the tunnel axis so as to create a substantially rectangular cavity from which the tool is withdrawn; said cavity is then filled with concrete to form a cast segment; the aforesaid stages are repeated until a frusto-conical section formed from adjacent cast segments is completed, after which the material within the formed section is excavated to a depth less than the axial length of the section, and the apparatus is advanced through a distance substantially equal to the axial length of the cast segments, the stages being repeated to form each successive section in order to form a lining in which the wider final portion of one section is superposed on the narrower initial portion of the next section; during the execution of one section of cast segments a second tool associated with said first tool executes consolidation/tamping injections with concrete or the like into the region which is to constitute said next section. |
59 |
Method for reducing compressed air losses when driving underground
cavities supported by compressed air |
US602185 |
1984-04-19 |
US4623198A |
1986-11-18 |
Manfred Nussbaumer; Theo van Lith |
A method for reducing compressed air losses when driving underground cavities which are supported by compressed air. The part of the inner cavity face exposed by mining is sealed by a viscous medium after breaking away the earth. With a supply of propellant, the viscous medium is applied, in the form of a spray mist which is directed toward the exposed part of the inner cavity face, in such a way that the mist penetrates the substratum without substantially destroying the exposed face. Particles of rock are thus prevented from being detached from the face which is to be sealed. |
60 |
Shield type hydraulic tunnel boring machine |
US868533 |
1978-01-11 |
US4152027A |
1979-05-01 |
Kenichi Fujimoto; Kunitaka Saito; Masaharu Saito |
A shield type hydraulic tunnel boring machine having means for detecting an occurrence of excess excavation due to accidental collapse in tunnel face ground apt to occur during tunnel boring through soft and unstable ground and for further determining the location, shape, scale and the like of such excess excavation occurred is provided. The means comprises optimumly a plurality of rod-shaped members capable of being extended out of and retracted into the machine. Amounts by which these members are paid out until they reach ground wall of any cavity due to the occurred excess excavation are measured to determine the actual state of such cavity. The means is provided preferably at a plurality of proper positions on a shield body of the machine and respective values of the measured amounts at these positions are recorded and displayed, whereby the location, shape, scale and the like of the occurred excess excavation can be confirmed. |