Abstract: A clamping attachment to a device for driving elongated rod elements of low igidity into the ground comprises a housing (1) having a through tapered interior (2) and shoulders (7) on the outer surface. The interior (2) of the housing accommodates two spring-biased wedging elements (3) with slots (4). The slots (4) receive ends of arms (9) secured on the shoulders (7). Interposed between the spring (12) and wedging elements (3) is a washer plate (14). End faces (16, 17) of the wedging elements (3) and washer plate (14) are tapered. Contact surfaces (10, 11) of the slots (4,) and arms (9) are inclined to the longitudinal axis of the clamping attachment.

Abstract: The annular air-hammer apparatus for drilling holes comprises a shell hav fitted co-axially therein a chips-receiving sleeve, a hollow cylindrical case, and a ring-shaped hammer capable of reciprocating back and forth. The lower part of the shell accommodates a rock-cutting tool capable of moving axially with at least one blow-off passage formed by at least a single longitudinal groove made on the outer cylindrical surface of the rock-cutting tool. With the rock-cutting tool in its uppermost position, the blow-off passage communicates with an outlet space provided between the shell and the case.

Abstract: An annular air hammer apparatus for drilling wells has a cylindrical body which accommodates a stepped annular hammer mounted for reciprocations. A stepped air distribution tube is rigidly secured in the body and has inlet ports and exhaust ports, the tube cooperating with the hammer and defining therewith a work stroke chamber and defining a return stroke chamber with the body. A pipe for receiving drillings is stationary mounted in the air distribution tube and defines therewith a plenum. An annular member is provided between the pipe for receiving drillings and air distribution pipe, in the zone between the inlet and exhaust ports, to define an exhaust chamber between the pipe for receiving drillings and air distribution tube. The plenum and exhaust chamber permanently communicate with each other through a throttle means.

Abstract: An annular air-hammer apparatus for drilling holes incorporates a hollow cylindrical case with a stepped bore which has inlet and outlet ports. A rock-cutting tool with an axial opening is fitted to the case at the forward end thereof. A chips-receiving sleeve and a stepped ring-shaped hammer are located inside the case, whereby the hammer forms a working-stroke chamber with the case and an idle-stroke chamber with the case, the rock-cutting tool and the chips-receiving sleeve. The chips-receiving sleeve has a cylindrical protuberance at its upper end which interacts with the hammer when this is in its topmost position. A channel is provided in the idle-stroke chamber at that side thereof which faces the upper end face of the hammer.

Abstract: A percussive air tool with a hollow cylindrical stepped housing having air inlet and air exhaust ports. A stepped hammer reciprocates inside the housing and has an axial central bore with a tube element disposed in the bore. The tool includes, work stroke and return stroke chambers, an air supply hose pipe with an air feeding valve, and a rod-clamping device arranged in the forward portion of the housing. The smaller step of the hammer has a neck portion or groove adapted to communicate the air inlet port with the interior of the larger step of the housing, an open annular cavity being formed between the tube element and the walls of the hammer bore.

Abstract: A rod-clamping device comprises an impact load transmission assembly which includes a housing having a through axial cavity and a system of jamming elements, a rocoil force take up assembly which includes a housing having a through axial cavity, a collar sleeve, and a system of jamming elements, and a resilient element adapted to urge the jamming elements in a direction counter to the forces being exerted, the impact load transmission assembly having a sleeve member, each system of the jamming elements in the two assemblies being forced to the housing and the rod being driven by a separate resilient element.

Abstract: A distinguishing feature of the present invention comprising a shell with side ports and an axial taper through cavity whose generatrix is inclined to the shell center line at an angle of less than the self-wedging angle, spring-biased gripping jaws accommodated in that cavity, levers installed in the shell ports and interacting by their inner ends with the gripping jaws consists in that the gripping tool is equipped with an abutment sleeve having an inside annular recess and installed on the shell external surface and a rubber shock absorber disposed between the recess upper surface and the outer ends of the levers.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a clamping means for a device for driving flexible rod-shaped elements in soil, wherein an open-ended tapered inner space of the casing accommodates at least two wedging elements and a spring urging the wedging elements into the engagement with the casing and with a rod being driven. The casing is externally provided with lugs having holes receiving pivots which support rocker arms each having a free end and the other end extending in an aperture of the casing wall and engaging one of the wedging elements.

Abstract: A pneumatic impact mechanism for driving rod-like members having a hollow cylindrical casing with a tail portion and a front end portion. The casing accommodates a reciprocating stepped hammer piston defining in the casing, on the tail portion side, a variable volume rear end work chamber in permanent communication with a source of compressed air. The stepped hammer piston defines, on the side of the front end portion, a variable volume front end work chamber.The stepped hammer piston has a through-passing axial bore, and its small-diameter portion cooperates with the tail portion of the casing and has radial passages. There is provided a tubular guide member or element for receiving the rod-like member arranged coaxially with the stepped hammer piston and casing and secured to the tail portion and to the front end portion of the casing in such a manner as to cooperate with the stepped hammer piston and define therewith, with the outer periphery thereof an axial passage.

Abstract: A distinguishing feature of the present invention consists in that the menism for driving in rod-shaped elements into compact or frozen ground comprises a guide tube to accommodate said rod-shaped element. The tube extends throughout the length of the shell and is secured in the extension and the front portion of said shell, coaxially with the stepped ram and the shell. The outer surface of said guide tube contacts the inner surface of the axial hole in the stepped ram and has at least one channel which puts the rear and front working chambers in communication with each other when the stepped ram is in the foremost position, while the front portion of the shell is provided with a rigidly secured clamp for holding the rod-shaped element.