Apparatus for excavating soil and the like using supersonic jets

Details Apparatus for excavating soil and the like using supersonic jets Apparatus for excavating soil and the like using supersonic jets

1989-10-12

1990-06-26

Taylor, Dennis L.

Excavating

Peat excavators

37189, 406 96, 406153, B65G 5314

Patent

active

049360310

ABSTRACT:
A "soft excavator" utilizes supersonic jets of air to loosen and remove soil and the like without damage to utility lines and other "hard" buried objects. A pair of digger nozzles, each mounted at an angle to the axis of the tubular support shaft which in turn is mounted for planetary motion on a drivehead rotating about a tubular member, trace a epitrochoidal path around the inlet to the tubular member which advances with each rotation of the drivehead to uniformly loosen soil across the cutting face and to gather the lossened soil toward the tubular member. Injector nozzles direct supersonic jets of air into the tubular member in the direction of the discharge end to generate a secondary air flow which sucks lossened soil aerated by the digger nozzles into the inlet end of the tubular member. The entrained soil is decelerated by a diffuser and flexible bag at the discharge end of the tubular member and deposited in a pile.
Compressed air for the digger nozzles is delivered through an annular passage and the stationary tubular member to an annular chamber formed by the rotating drivehead and the stationary tubular member, and passes through radial passageways to the upper ends of the tubular digger nozzle support shafts. The drivehead can be driven by air motors mounted on the rotating drivehead which are supplied with compressed air from the annular chamber feeding the digger nozzles. These rotating air motors engage through idler gears a common sun gear fixed to the tubular member which is also engaged by planet gears rotating the digger nozzle support shafts. Alternatively, the drivehead can be driven by an air, hydraulic or electric motor mounted on the stationary tubular member and driving a separate sun gear mounted on the rotating drivehead.

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