223results about "Drilling with mechanical conveying" patented technology

A rack is disclosed, adapted to facilitate efficient transport and interchange of augers and/or mining drill bits used in construction by either single operator or a plurality of operators. The rack comprises a plurality of elongated members affixed to one another; and, in some embodiments, a plurality of L-shaped, cantilevered brackets from which augers or drill bits are suspended during transport, storage, interchange, and the like.

The invention provides a system for adapting an HVAC system in an existing building for utilizing geothermal energy, the system comprising an incoming flux of geothermal energy; a plurality of heat exchange surfaces adapted to receive the incoming flux of geothermal energy; and an interface between the HVAC system and the heat exchange surfaces, said interface adapted to transfer the geothermal energy to the system. Also provided is a method for repairing aberrations in drill borings, the method comprising using a rotary mud drill system to produce a drill hole up to the location of the aberrations; removing the rotary mud drill from the drill hole; inserting an auger into the drill hole to a point directly above the location of the aberrations; actuating the auger; introducing loose substrate into the drill hole; allowing the substrate to contact the auger; and lifting and lowering the auger along longitudinally extending regions of the drill hole defining the aberrations for a time and in substrate amounts sufficient to fill the aberrations. The invention also provides a system which facilitates rotating drill bits at an rpm which are multiples faster than their associated drill strings.

A double-head drilling machine is disclosed, which by changing over or converting small component units can cooperate with drill or drill pipes of different diameters. To this end, drive carriages (16) operating on drills or drill pipes, for example, comprise a carriage base element (32), to which a drive unit (42) is releasably fitted. The drive unit (42) can thus be replaced by a different drive unit having essentially the same geometry, which is designed for operating with a drill or drill pipe having a different diameter.

A self-contained mobile sampling and processing facility for use at a mine having at least one blast-hole that forms a blast-hole cone wherein the sampling and processing facility includes at least one primary robotic arm that carries at least one sampling tool, and the primary robotic arm and sampling tool is controlled by robotic arm and sampling tool movement controller means, and the primary robotic arm is capable of self-determining the direction, distance and shape of a nearby blast-hole cone, then subsequently positioning itself so that the sampling tool is able to engage with the blast-hole cone and retrieve a sample from it without significant mixing or stirring the cone, or a localised region of the cone, and then the sample is deposited into the processing facility.

The invention relates to a spiral soil-squeezing downhole rock embedding device and a pile forming method. The spiral soil-squeezing downhole rock embedding device is composed of a rotating unit, a standard soil squeezing drill rig, an impactor and a drill bit. The rotating unit is mounted at the upper end of the standard soil squeezing drill rig. The standard soil squeezing drill rig and the impactor are connected with an upper connecting plate through a standard flange. The impactor and the drill bit are positioned through a guiding spline between a lower body and an upper body, and the lower body, a pile casing and the upper body are connected into a whole through bolts and flanges. An impacting unit mounted in the impactor is movably connected with the upper body, and an inner tube II penetrates through the impactor and the drill bit. By means of the pile forming method, a rock-embedded pile with the rock bearing capacity larger than 500 Kpa is constructed, the construction quality is guaranteed, construction efficiency is improved, and the requirements for energy saving and environmental protection are met.

A helical displacement well with preassembled segments includes a preassembled shaft-forming penetrator tube including helical plates mounted to its exterior that may be rotated to propel the casing into the ground. A hydraulic drill motor rotates the penetrator tube and as it moves deeper into the ground. Extension tubes may be added to and coupled to the penetrator tube. A hydraulic drill motor is attached to the upper end of the extension tubes in order to continue the rotation of the assembled helical displacement well. The filter screen and the piping are installed concurrently with the addition of the extension tubes at the surface of the ground.

A hard rock drill barrel has a barrel portion with a downhole hammer drill disposed therein at the barrel's periphery. A pilot portion, in substantial axial alignment with the barrel but having a smaller diameter, extends distally from the barrel for inserting into a pilot shaft of slightly larger diameter than the pilot portion. In operation, the hammer drill excavates a collar around the pilot shaft when the drill barrel is rotated and supplied with pressurized air, thereby excavating a relative large diameter shaft. The drill barrel is hollow and open at its proximal end to receive and collect cuttings flushed into the shaft above the drill barrel. The piloted drill barrel is adjustable to excavate variable diameter shaft portions, enabling the placement of casing within a larger diameter shaft portion. After adjustment of the drill barrel, smaller-diameter shaft excavation proceeds beyond the casing.

Withdrawing a hollow stem auger string from a well includes a retractor having C-shaped inter-coil insertions and a hoist having tong-arms, one which terminates in an inwardly disposed pin. The retractor connects to a drilling rig's hydraulic cylinder vertical drive system, the hoist to a winch system thereof. The retractor engages the string by the C-shaped inter-coil insertion disposed between one coil of the helical flight of the topmost section of the string. The hoist engaged the top collar of the topmost section by the at least one pin inserting into a pin hole thereof. The string is lifted about the height of one section by the retractor, which is promptly disengaged. The topmost section is detached, and carried by the hoist to elsewhere to be dropped. The method repeats by re-engaging the retractor and hoist and then returning to the activity of lifting.

An apparatus and method for drilling deeper and wider well bores is provided. The apparatus includes a motorized drill head for cutting and shredding ground material; a separate excavation line; a separate fluid delivery line; a separate close loop engine cooling line; and a casing system. Excavation line includes repetitive stationary segments of the main pipe with periodical segments of an in-line excavation pump. The close loop cooling line includes a heat exchanger in the motorized drill head and in the in-line excavation pump and one on the ground surface in the binary unit where fluid is cooled and in process electricity produced. The diameter of the excavation line and rate of flow of mud and cuttings through it and the diameter of the fluid delivery line and rate of fluid flow through it are in balance requiring only limited fluid column at the bottom of the well bore.

In the auger cleaning device (8) according to the invention, in the closed configuration the tool-holder support forms a pass-through opening (82) arranged for allowing the passage of a helical drilling tool (6), the cleaning tool (170) engaging with the screw of the drilling tool (6) and, actuated by the actuation system (12, 12′, 12″, 4), is arranged for rotating around the drilling tool (6) following at least one of its threads (60) so as to remove the debris lying on the drilling tool (6). In the open configuration the cleaning tool (170) is disengaged from the drilling tool (6) and preferably farther from it, with respect to when it is in the closed configuration.

A horizontal auger garden tilling apparatus and method of use having an outer frame, an inner frame which pivots with said outer frame, and a rotating auger capable of tilling soil to depth which conventional tillers cannot begin to reach. The apparatus is moved and the method of use is performed via attachment with a tractor or other movable carriage which provides enough horizontal force to move the auger through the soil and provides auger rotational power. A trencher attachment prevents auger soil refilling and allows the apparatus and method of use to be utilized and performed in conjunction with trenching operations.

The helical drill bit defines a helical end section of a helical structure formed at its periphery by an auger of an excavation assembly, and it is associated or associate with a support portion of the auger. Such a support portion defines a proximal section of the helical structure, which has an extension substantially centred around a longitudinal axis (X-X). The helical drill bit is adapted to rotate about the longitudinal axis (X-X) together with the support portion so as to drill a hole in the ground. The helical end section extends around an extremity axis (Y-Y; Ψ-Ψ) that is not aligned relative to the longitudinal axis (X-X).

A conical feeder is attached to a vertically conveying screw auger. The feeder is equipped with scoops and rotated from the surface to force-feed regolith the auger. Additional scoops are possible by adding a cylindrical section above the conical funnel section. Such then allows the unit to collect material from swaths larger in diameter than the enclosing casing pipe of the screw auger. A third element includes a flexible screw auger. All three can be used in combination in microgravity and zero atmosphere environments to drill and recover a wide area of subsurface regolith and entrained volatiles through a single access point on the surface.

Described herein is an earth auger and pole machine for automated installation of poles in earth banks of access roads to open-pit mines. The earth auger and pole machine is fitted with a mechanic boom comprised of a first link and a second link. The first link has an end attached to a base fixed to a conveyor vehicle, and the other end coupled to the second link. The second link comprises a magazine for loading the poles, an auger system to drill the ground, and an installer to place the poles into the hole. This document also describes a method for installing poles in sequence by using the earth auger and pole machine.

The invention discloses a hydraulic variable-diameter reamer drill bit of a long spiral drilling machine and a cast-in-place pile construction method. The hydraulic variable-diameter reamer drill bitincludes the long spiral drilling machine, a detachable upper power head is mounted on the long spiral drilling machine, a spiral drilling rod can be made to rotate, a hydraulic system is arranged inthe upper power head, a drill bit system is fixedly arranged at the lower end of the spiral drilling rod, the drill bit system is provided with a first cavity and a second cavity, an outwardly movablefirst drill bit with a piston is mounted in the first cavity, an outwardly extensible and movable second drill bit with an a piston is mounted in the second cavity, a pouring channel, a first hole channel and a second hole channel are formed in the spiral drilling rod, a rotatable lower power head is arranged on the lower part of the upper power head, a detachable rotating sleeve is arranged at the lower end of the lower power head, and the sleeve wraps the outer side of the drill bit system and enables the drill bit system to move vertically. While sleeve pulling out and diameter expanding can be realized, meanwhile, concrete can be poured, the construction efficiency is high, economic benefits is good, and bearing capacity of the pile end and lateral resistance of a pile body can be effectively improved.

An apparatus and method for drilling an underground borehole is presented, wherein pressurized air may be used to discharge out of the borehole cuttings created by a cutter head. A casing may be secured to the cutter head such that the cutter head and casing may be rotatable together as a unit. The casing may have larger and smaller diameter sections. An auger may be disposed adjacent the front of the casing.

Systems and methods for drilling auxiliary holes such as conductor holes, ratholes, and mouseholes useful in drilling operations. In certain aspects, the systems and methods include the use of a portable drilling apparatus that is selectively mountable on a rig's drill floor and is removable after an auxiliary hole has been drilled. In one aspect, a movable drive unit is pulled down by a cable system forcing the drive unit down and thereby facilitating drilling of the auxiliary hole. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).

The present invention provides a device useful for boring holes into the earth, and is especially useful for drilling holes in which fence posts are to be placed. A device according to the invention is completely self-powered, having its own on-board engine which supplies all of the power necessary for the boring operation and other movements of the device associated therewith. A device according to the invention is readily removable from and attachable to a motorized vehicle equipped with a trailer hitch, and is adapted to configure itself in a retracted position for ease in storage and transportation.

The invention discloses a tunnel drilling-blasting construction, a tunneling and risk elimination apparatus and a method of using the same; the tunnel drilling-blasting construction, a tunneling and risk elimination apparatus comprises a traveling unit, a rotating unit, an arm frame unit, and a hydraulic breaking and drilling unit; the traveling unit comprises wheels, a chassis, a conveyer belt and a motor; the rotating unit comprises a rotating chassis, a cab, and a machine chamber; the arm frame unit comprises a primary mechanical arm, a primary cylinder, a secondary cylinder, a secondary mechanical arm, a tertiary cylinder, a quaternary cylinder, and a dust treatment system; the hydraulic breaking and drilling unit comprises a fixed base, a slide rail, an explosive clamp, a percussion drill and a drill pipe. The tunnel drilling-blasting construction, a tunneling and risk elimination apparatus is a tunnel drilling-blasting construction, tunneling and risk elimination machine having risk elimination, drilling and charging functions, has high automation level, good flexibility and high safety, is convenient and simple to operate, has reasonably set system functions, enables effectively improved working efficiency and greatly saved construction time, and is applicable to the construction in various complex tunnel environments.