Apparatus for excavating a substantially vertical slot

Details Apparatus for excavating a substantially vertical slot Apparatus for excavating a substantially vertical slot

1987-01-27

1988-05-17

Leppink, James A.

Boring or penetrating the earth

Means traveling with tool to constrain tool to bore along...

175 94, 299 75, E21B 708

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ABSTRACT:
The apparatus for making a substantially vertical slot in the ground, especially in a single operation in making a sealing or supporting wall, comprises a machine frame with a rectangular cross section guided in the slot in the ground with a plurality of guide surfaces and at least one driven cutting wheel positioned at the lower end of the machine frame. The machine frame and the cutting wheels have a width which correspond to the width of the slot in the ground within tolerances defined by the guide free play and the cutting free play. The machine frame is guided in the vertical slot with a plurality of guiding surfaces and comprises an upper guide frame and a lower guide frame. The cutting wheels are mounted on the lower guide frame. The controlling piston cylinder unit for control of the lower guiding frame is mounted between the upper and lower guiding frames. This controlling piston cylinder unit comprises four pair of controlling piston cylinder devices which are positioned in four inclined planes so that the lower guide frame opposing the upper guide frame is pivotable not only according to two mutually crossing degrees of freedom but also about a vertical axis.

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patent: 4548443 (1985-10-01), Turner
patent: 4655493 (1987-04-01), Sumi

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