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6926100 Hole reaming apparatus and method  
An enhanced reaming apparatus and method are disclosed. A reaming assembly may have a motor and a pump that provide linear force, torsional force, and pressurized drilling fluid to a reamer to...
6899842 Method and installation for laying a cylindrical pipe on a support  
A process and plant for laying a pipe in a trench comprising placing a flattened tubular preform in the trench, the perform having a reinforcement surrounding an inner seal, the reinforcement being...
6802673 Tunnel boring with foamed composition  
A process of boring a tunnel using an earth-pressure balance shield boring tunnelling machine having a cutting head, an excavation chamber for soil removed by boring and conveying means for removal...
6772134 Control means for a horizontal boring tool  
Control apparatus for a horizontal boring tool is described which drives a boring lance via boring rods. The tool includes an input interface for receiving actual values of controlled variables of...
6761415 Trailer for a tunnel borer follower train  
A trailer for a tunnel borer follower train comprises a chassis provided with a plurality of wheels, the chassis at rest presenting a longitudinal axis and a longitudinal plane of symmetry that is...
6644754 Tunnel excavating machine  
A tunnel excavating machine having an excavating machine body can be moved forward by shield jacks. A rotatable cutter head is mounted in a front portion of the excavating machine body. An erector...
6595724 Tunnel excavating machine and excavating method  
A tunnel excavating machine of high-speed construction capable of completely stopping invasion of water and allowing covering members to be assembled easily is provided. This tunnel excavating...
6382732 Cutter head, tunnel excavating machine, and cutter replacing method  
A cutter head is rotationally drivably mounted on a front portion of a tunnel excavating machine body, a plurality of cutter spokes are provided radially on the cutter head, a plurality of mounting...
6375390 Method for widening road, superhighway or railway tunnels, without interrupting the traffic  
A construction method for widening road, superhighway or railway tunnels, without interrupting the traffic flow includes a first stage of excavation; in steps, of the ground between the theoretical...
6357965 Method, system and device for building a wall in the ground  
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...
6347838 Method for replacing cutters of tunnel-excavating machine, method for excavating tunnel, and tunnel excavating machine  
Cutter spokes are disposed on a cutterhead of a tunnel-excavating machine. Movable blocks, each having a roller cutter, are movably supported by each of the cutter spokes while being connected one...
6305754 Tunnel excavator with S-shaped soil plate  
A tunnel excavator includes a pair of cutters arranged side by side at a front portion of a tunnel excavator main body. These cutters rotate in opposite directions for excavating the earth to form...
6287052 Material and method for lubricating the metal surfaces of an earth-pressure tunnel boring machine  
A method of boring a tunnel with a tunnel boring machine comprising injecting into the formation to be bored just before the cutting tools of the boring machine and optionally into the internal...
6142577 Hydraulic muck handling system for tunnel boring machine  
A tunnel boring machine for collecting earth excavated upon rotation of a cutter disk includes a non-pressurized chamber behind the cutter disk for collecting earth excavated by the cutter disk and...
6092963 Tail structure of shield driving machine  
The present invention relates to a tail structure of a shield driving machine, and in particular relates to an improvement technique of the tail sealing portion of this type of shield driving...
6089791 Tunnel construction method  
To construct a tunnel in a formation (11, 15) with zones of high hydraulic pressure (15), a gallery (13) is driven from the stable formation (11) toward the problem formation zone (15). At least...
6082930 Shield driving machine  
The present invention relates to a shield driving machine by which eliminates excessive work of the ground when working at a curved section while suppressing an increase of the sinking of the...
5931601 Tunnel excavator  
A tunneling machine intended to stably carry out gripper replacement by restricting the load imposed on gripper jacks for the main gripper as much as possible during excavation of an inclined...
5722800 Seal and its production method for the creation of load bearings, removable earth masses for the construction of underground structures such as cavity structures  
A bulkhead for manufacturing underground structures such as earth cavities in a closed construction method, formed of sealing walls arranged as an enclosure and sealing earth masses to be removed...
5707176 Earth discharge control system for small-diameter pipe propelling machine  
An earth discharge control system for a small-diameter pipe propelling machine controls the excavated earth discharging operation of the small-diameter pipe propelling machine. The small-pipe...
5501548 Method for controlling the direction of a shield tunneling machine and an apparatus therefor  
When a shield tunneling machine is deviated from the scheduled line while being propelled, the deviation of the shield tunneling machine from the scheduled line is detected and according to the...
5478170 Controlling apparatus for excavator  
An object of this invention is to improve precision in the operation, operating efficiency, and reliability of an excavator. A soil condition at a place where an excavator (1) is advanced is...
5393172 Shield tunneling machine  
A shield tunneling machine comprises a shield body having a soil chamber, an inside chamber and a partition wall. The soil chamber has a conical peripheral surface converging gradually rearward. A...
5382114 Tunnel excavation apparatus  
A tunnel excavation apparatus comprises a frame mounted on crawler tracks and provided with pistons comprising stabilizer feet, a power unit, a working unit, and auxiliary movement and positioning...
5380127 Non-entry method of underground excavation in weak or water bearing grounds  
A method of excavating an underground area liable to flooding or collapsing during excavation, wherein the area is susceptible to disaggregation by high pressure water jet and is located above rock...
5370479 Shielding apparatus  
A shielding apparatus comprises a cylindrical shield body, a crankshaft supported by the shield body rotatably around the axis of the shield body, a plurality of rotors successively provided in the...
5330292 System and method for transmitting and calculating data in shield machine  
The present invention discloses a system and a method for transmitting data in a shield machine and for calculating the filling amount of a void by detecting the distance to the natural ground. The...
5312163 System for aiding operation of excavating type underground advancing machine  
A system for supporting the drive of an excavating type underground advancing machine is provided to lighten the operator's burden so that an unskilled operator can perform operation comparable to...
5284403 Control method and control equipment for drilling apparatus  
A method for controlling advancement of a drilling apparatus comprising a drill head having tools therein and at least one conveying tube is disclosed. The method utilizes changes in pressure...
5240350 Apparatus for detecting position of underground excavator and magnetic field producing cable  
Magnetic field producers are disposed either at the leading portion of an underground excavator or at a reference position in front of the underground excavator. The magnetic field producers can be...
5236284 Drilling apparatus and method for its control  
A drilling apparatus and a method for its control maintains the alignment of a drill head while driving a tunnel. The control is achieved by manipulating the center of gravity of a drill bit unit...
5228752 Tunnel boring machine  
Tunnel boring machine whose driving shaft (4) adjacent to the boring head (6) is journalled in a bearing (12) which is intended to take up only radial forces. Shaft (4) is at its other end...
5221160 Subterranean connecting method for construction of shield tunnel and connecting apparatus therefor  
A disclosure is made of a subterranean connecting method and a connecting apparatus therefor which are suitable for use when two shield machines are used to excavate a pair of tunnel sections from...
5211507 Method of making a huge elongated space of square or rectangular cross section under the ground  
Disclosed is a method of making a huge elongated space of square or rectangular cross section under the ground. The outer shell of the huge elongated space is built in the form of integral...
5205613 Tunnel boring machine with continuous forward propulsion  
A tunnel boring machine includes a cutterhead having a plurality of cutting units and being rotatable on a machine frame. Two sets of three anchor shoes float relative to the frame and are disposed...
5199817 Process of providing an elongate underground cavity  
In the provision of elongate underground cavities having a large volume are to be provided, particularly in the construction of underground railroad stations having at least two stories, it is...
5190407 Rectangular shield excavating machine  
A rectangular shield excavating machine comprises a quadrangularly tubular shield body having a space for receiving an excavated matter at the front end, a rotor disposed in the space so as to be...
5186579 Apparatus for controlling direction of underground excavator  
According to the present invention, there is disclosed an apparatus for controlling the direction of displacement of an underground excavator including a turnable jack to perform excavating...
5184918 Recoverable tunnelling machine  
The tunnelling machine for driving inaccessible tunnels by pressing forward by means of tubes can be moved out again through the tunnel driven by it. For this purpose, an annular outer area (2b) is...
5180252 Earth pressure system shield process  
The invention relates to an earth pressure system shield process. First of all, an excavation additive consisting of the mixture of an agent for improving fluidity and viscosity of an excavated...
5174683 Telescopic double shield boring machine  
The invention relates to a boring machine for digging tunnels in a wide variety of qualities of ground, of the type comprising a first front shield, containing the boring head, and the members for...
5167468 System for the robotic fabrication of pipelines and tunnels along unlimited three-dimensional curvilinear paths  
The present invention is a system for the robotic fabrication of a set of parallel pipelines or tunnels along a curvilinear path without limitation as to distance, direction and depth. A large...
5156490 Shield tunnelling apparatus  
A shield tunnelling apparatus is provided that includes a first tubular shield body in which a cutter assembly for excavation and a drive mechanism for driving the cutter assembly are disposed; a...
5135326 Articulated shield tunneling machine  
An articulated shield tunneling machine suitable for excavation along a curvature with an articulated shield having front and rear shield sections. In contrast to the conventional apparatus which...
5129760 Forming a passageway through the ground  
A method of forming a passageway (P) through the ground by inserting into the ground a structure (1) comprising a superstructure (3) and a substructure (2). The superstructure (3) is inserted into...
5127711 Hopper and hood combination for tunneling machine and tunneling machine having the same  
A hopper and hood combination for muck transfer in a tunneling machine, and a tunneling machine having the same, in which a muck collar is mounted to a cutterhead support and projects into a...
5125768 Method and apparatus for the production of underground pipelines  
A method and apparatus for producing an underground pipeline from an excavated hole uses a drill head with a suitable tool attached thereto. Loosened soil is transported out of the drilled tunnel...
5118220 Method of building underground cavern and tunneling machine  
A method of forming an underground cavern aiming at forming an underground cavern of a large scale at a very deep place in soft ground and soft rock layers safely and economically, and a tunneling...
5104262 Tunnel boring machine  
Tunnel boring machine comprising a number of swingable arms (11,12,13,14) provided with boring tools (41,42,43,44) for the working of the tunnel wall outside its normal diameter. The arms may be...
5104261 Tunnel boring machine  
Tunnel boring machine for reaming of a pilot tunnel (11). The machine housing (12) is provided with a projecting part in front of the boring head (13), said projecting part comprising a part (20)...
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