The utility model provides a protection device for an automatic pressure maintaining
system of a
shield tunneling machine. The protection device comprises a connecting
pipe communicated with the automatic pressure maintaining
system and the
shield tunneling machine soil bin, a
pipe opening of the connecting
pipe is located on a breast plate of the
shield tunneling machine soil bin, the protection device further comprises a seamless steel pipe
elbow matched with the pipe opening of the connecting pipe, and one end of the seamless steel pipe
elbow is fixed to the pipe opening of the connecting pipe in a
butt joint mode. The other end of the seamless steel pipe
elbow faces downwards, a horn mouth is arranged at an end opening of the seamless steel pipe elbow, the small-opening end of the horn mouth is in
butt joint and fixed with the end opening of the seamless steel pipe elbow, a
grating is fixed on the large-opening end face of the horn mouth, and a floating ball is movably arranged in the horn mouth. The automatic pressure maintaining
system is simple in structure, the problem that the automatic pressure maintaining system is damaged due to the fact that muddy water intrudes through an automatic connecting pipeline when the position of
muck in a soil cabin is high in an existing automatic pressure maintaining system is solved, and the risk that the automatic pressure maintaining system is damaged in the shield tunneling process is greatly reduced.