Abstract: A cartridge for tunnel blasting is provided a cartridge for tunnel blasting, which easily breaks a rock, by inserting a cartridge containing water into a bore hole formed in a rock by using a boring device, and injecting liquid nitrogen into the inserted cartridge, so as to induce cracks of the rock by using the characteristic of the water that expands when it is frozen.

Abstract: A device used to break rock from within a predrilled borehole through the use of impact pins which strike against the interior sides of a drilled hole. The device is loaded into a drilled hole and then activated by a percussive hammer located above the hole, providing percussive energy to the device which is then transferred to the sidewall of the drilled hole. The device includes an inner piston assembly which includes a driving surface for causing impact pins to strike the interior sidewall of the drilled hole in a rapid percussive manner so as to greatly improve the ability to break and shatter surrounding rock or concrete.

Abstract: A splitting wedge includes at least a wedge (1), an external sleeve (3), and a wedge sleeve (2). The wedge sleeve (2) and the external sleeve (3) are connected to one another by providing one with a flange (8, 10) and the other with a groove (7, 9), the flange (8, 10) and the groove (7, 9) being substantially perpendicular with respect to a direction of motion (B) of the wedge (1), and by arranging the flange (8, 10) in the groove (7, 9).

Abstract: A conventional crusher forms a hollow space between paralleled straight portions of a wedge body portion and inner side surfaces of expanding members at the time of performing an expanding operation and hence, an expanding force of tapered portions of the wedge is not transmitted to the whole expanding members whereby the force is dispersed and a large crushing force cannot be obtained.

Abstract: The device for breaking rocks includes a hollow cylindrical chamber having a closed lower end, a closed upper end and an access aperture in the closed upper end and an outer circumstantial surface. A cylindrical plunger is longitudinally-reciprocally disposed within the interior of the cylindrical chamber, has a converging portion and is biased to a retracted position. Four spools are equally disposed around the circumference of the cylindrical plunger, each spool including a converging upper end which is configured to be in slidable contact with the converging portion of the cylindrical plunger. Four hardened inserts are secured to an outer face of an associated spool. Each spool and secured hardened insert is biased to an inner retracted position.

Abstract: A formwork board is disclosed for use in the placement of concrete slabs, sidewalks, driveways, and footings. It includes a first element and a second element. The first element is adapted to telescopically receive the second element to provide a board of variable lengths. The elements of the board are advantageously fabricated from a light metal, or a light metal alloy.

Abstract: A pressure actuated fracture tool for use in splitting and fracturing hardened material, such as rock, stone, concrete and the like, having two expansible outer shells designed to move in opposition to each other along a selected axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the tool. The outer shells define a central orifice extending longitudinally to length of the tool. An elastomeric tubular member is positioned in the central cavity between two longitudinally fixed end connectors. Upon the application of pressure to the tubular member, the outer shells expand outwardly in a determined radial diversion to contact the wall of a cavity bored in the hardened material and cause the material to cleave or split.

Abstract: The drilling device for memory, particularly aerated concrete, includes an impact drilling machine and an impact rotation tool to be clamped in the drilling machine. To prevent the impact-drilling shank jamming in the drill hole as it is withdrawn, and nevertheless to achieve maximum holding power in the masonry, the impact-rotation tool consists of an impact-drilling shank tapered conically toward a tip from a cylindrical middle portion of increased diameter, a carrier bush connected with a circumferential shoulder of the impact-drilling shank and a ram engaging with some play in an internal bore of the carrier bush. A drill bit-like locating means is provided on the ram for engagement in the drilling machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for disintegrating monolythic entities including a body defined by two thrust plates capable of movement in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body. The body accommodates two parts similar in shape which contact the inner surface of the thrust plates and divide the interior of the body into four spaces, each accommodating an expansion chamber and two wedge-shaped inserts. Positioned between the parts dividing the interior of the body are additional wedge-shaped inserts movable on the surfaces of the similar parts, wherein positioned between the additional wedge-shaped inserts is an additional expansion chamber in contact with the additional wedge-shaped inserts.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for placing a hard compact material such as rock surrounding a drill hole into axial tension for the purpose of breaking and excavating the material by virtue of a dual piston (23) and (25) arrangement disposed within a fluid cylinder (16) wherein the first piston (23) is attached to a thrust rod member (28) the second piston is attached to a wedge member (30) having an outwardly tapered conical end (34) and a feather member (40) surrounding the wedge (30) and thrust (28) members; wherein the feather segments (43) have a conical profile on both their internal and external peripheries.

Abstract: In a powered member, a device for attaching each end of a flexible tubular chamber to a head of a nipple is formed by a pair of cylindrical bushings interconnected by means of a tenon and mortise joint which are located in the casing and define a central passage having its axis aligned with the axis of the casing. Walls of the passage in a plane drawn in parallel with the longitudinal axis of the casing are in the form of a pair of truncated cones having their larger bases facing towards each other. One generatrix of the conical surface of the passage extends substantially in parallel with generatrix of one conical passage of the head of the nipple and the other generatrix of the passage extends substantially in parallel with the generatrix of the other conical passage of the head of the nipple.

Abstract: A device for building up directional force comprises an even number of tubular vessels (1) made of elastic material and adapted for communicating with a pressure fluid medium source, and a rigid rectilinear pivot (8) with flat bevels (19) which is positioned between the tubular vessels (1) so that the tubular vessels (1) are located symmetrically with respect to the geometrical axis (9) of said pivot (8). Provision is made for puncheons (10) adjoining the outside surface of the tubular vessel (1) and positioned diametrically opposite relative to the axis (9) of the pivot (8), with their inside surfaces (12) facing the surfaces (20) of the pivot (8), which adjoin the outside surfaces of the tubular vessels (1).

Abstract: An apparatus for building-up bursting forces has a main casing filled with ice and having an outlet port and a variable-volume working chamber having an inlet port for communication with the outlet port of the main casing. There are provided a plurality of auxiliary casings filled with ice and a means for alternately establishing communication between the outlet ports of the main and auxiliary casings and the inlet port of the variable-volume working chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus to break rock and concrete slabs in situ when inserted into a predrilled hole in the rock and concrete slabs comprises first and second members each having an outer surface parallel to each other and the wall of the predrilled hole; a third member having a driven end, a free end, a first surface parallel to the outer surface of the first and second members slidably engaging a bottom surface of a longitudinal groove in the first member coextensive therewith and second surface opposite the first surface having a first predetermined slope along a given length of the third member from a point adjacent to the drive end to the free end, the third member having a single inward stroke of a predetermined length during each cycle of operation; and a first arrangement disposed between the second surface of the third member and an inner surface of the second member, the first arrangement when rendered operative causing the outer surface of the first and second members to engage the wall of the predetermined hol

Abstract: Apparatus to break rock and concrete slabs in situ when inserted into predrilled holes in rock and concrete slabs comprises first and second members each having outer surfaces engaging walls of the predrilled holes; a third member having a driven end, a free end, a first surface parallel to the outer surfaces of the first and second members slidably engaging a flat bottom surface of a longitudinal groove in and coextensive with the first member and a second surface opposite the first surface having a first predetermined slope along a given length from a point adjacent the driven end to the free end, the third member reciprocating in the groove a predetermined number of times greater than one during each cycle of operation and with a predetermined stroke length; and an arrangement disposed between the second surface of the third member and an inner surface of the second member actuated by each inward stroke of the third member to apply a powerful breaking force directly to the second member resulting in latera

Abstract: Disclosure is made of a power unit wherein a housing is made split along its longitudinal axis. A tubular elastic vessel is internally coaxially accommodated in the housing. Disposed between the expandable portions of the housing are expanding inserts trapezoidal in section, bearing by their larger bases against the tubular elastic vessel and by the sides, against the inner walls of the housing portions. For delivery of a working medium into the space of the elastic vessel provision is made for two pipe unions, each of which is installed for longitudinal movement in a holder having a flange disposed in a circular recess made on the inner surface of the housing. An electric element surrounding the elastic vessel is installed in the same circular recess. Each of the elastic vessel ends is disposed between the pipe union and the holder.

Abstract: Apparatus having a pair of presser cheeks for insertion in a drill hole, with a slider wedge slidably engaged therebetween. The forced descent of the slider wedge by a hydraulic cylinder assembly results in the lateral motion of the presser cheeks away from each other. The presser cheeks are supported from the cylinder body of the cylinder assembly, each via two pairs of parallel spaced leaf springs disposed on opposite sides of the slider wedge and normally closely held against the other two pairs of leaf springs supporting the other presser cheek. While the bottom ends of the leaf spring pairs are rigidly coupled to the presser cheeks, their upper ends are connected to the cylinder body via elastic members yieldable to permit upward displacement of the leaf springs with the presser cheeks, as upon withdrawal of the slider wedge, without buckling. Further two pairs of stop rods depend from the cylinder body so as to normally terminate short of the respective presser cheeks.

Abstract: Dust-proof membranes are provided across both ends of opposite respective divided surfaces defined by halves of wedge guide members. Each membrane has projections formed as an integral unit along the longitudinal side edges thereof. The projections are thrust into longitudinally extending C-shape cross-section grooves formed along the divided surfaces of the wedge guide members. The groove side surfaces are perpendicular to the bottom surface thereof.

Abstract: For splitting rock, concrete structures, etc., by being inserted into a drill hole created therein, a rock splitter has a wedge coupled at its thick end to the output shaft of a hydraulic cylinder. Lying on opposite sides of the wedge, a pair of guides are yieldably held against the wedge to allow longitudinal sliding motion thereof. Two pairs of opposed leaf springs connect the wedge guides to the hydraulic cylinder to restrain the guides from longitudinal displacement and to allow same to move away from and toward each other with the longitudinal sliding motion of the wedge. The pair of wedge guides, together with the wedge therebetween, generally taper as they extend away from the hydraulic cylinder for the ease of insertion into the drill hole. Several splitting operations, each with a thrust of the wedge, are to be performed in succession, by inserting the splitter progressively deeper into the drill hole, for fracturing thick rock formations or the like.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device permitting the separation of a casting piece from a casting deadhead to which it is joined. A pair of jaws are removably joined to a base and are slidable against a central wedge by dovetail surfaces.

Abstract: A mineral winning machine is moved back and forth along a mineral, e.g., coal, face to win mineral by a combination of cutting and wedging actions. To effect this winning mode, the machine has at least one cutting device with a cutting disk rotating in front of a frusto-conical wedging body which revolves in an eccentric manner to detach the mineral previously backcut by the disk. The wedging body and the cutting disk are driven by separate concentric drive shafts, preferably with variable speed regulation with the disk rotating faster than the wedging body. In an alternative construction, a cutting chain equipped with both cutting and wedging tools in differential relationship is circulated and engages the mineral face.

Abstract: Two elongated members are coaxially moveable relative to one another with one member rigidly attached to a working head such as an elongated wedge or the like. In one embodiment, the inner member is fixed to the working head while the outer member moveably surrounds the inner member. The outer member is dimensioned so that its lower perimeter edge is small enough to allow the members to be reciprocated so as to drive the head into a log or other material without the outer member being held against coaxial reciprocal movement by the material. The members can be secured as for lifting, withdrawing, transporting, etc., with a particularly advantageous form of the securing means being a flexible collar on the outer member for cooperating with a hole therethrough for gripping the inner member. The outer member can be fixed to the working head and the inner member reciprocally moveable therein.

Abstract: This invention pertains to hydraulically actuated rock splitters which utilize a wedge and feather action. The forward movement of this wedge places a corresponding thrust load on the feathers and their retaining means. Conventionally, the feathers have enlarged portions which are engaged by and are retained by hardened steel thrust or wear plates carried by a shell or housing. As a means of keeping the weight within reasonable limits this housing is usually made of aluminum or an alloy of aluminum. The support for these hardened steel plates, as provided by the housing, is usually insufficient resulting in a cracking or breaking of the hardened steel plates. These wear plates are made as laminations with a hardened steel plate disposed to engage the ends of the feathers and a softer steel backing plate which prevents damage to the housing when cracking of the hardened plate does occur. The embodiments show ring-like components arranged in a laminated assembly with no split in the wear plate component.

Abstract: A rock splitter tool is hydraulically actuated by a piston which moves a tapered wedge between feathers mounted at one end in a retaining means. The feathers and wedge, as an assembly, are inserted into a predrilled hole and the wedge is driven forward by the hydraulic piston to move the feathers outwardly to split the rock. The present invention is directed toward providing a hydraulically moved wedge in which the feathers and wear plate portions are retained by a clam shell clamp and retainer which are readily separated and removed to enable an inspection and/or replacement of any damaged apparatus. This clam shell clamp enables existing apparatus to be converted. Auxiliary apparatus utilizing a jack hammer device is also shown as is a hydraulic pulsation developing rotary valve which is adapted to cycle the wedge as it is moved forwardly.

Abstract: A rock splitting attachment for a breaking hammer comprising a primary shaft and an elongated primary wedge assembly that is telescopically attached to the primary shaft. The primary shaft has a plurality of principal wedge surfaces on its outer surface adjacent its bottom end. The structure for telescopically attaching the primary shaft to the elongated primary wedge assembly comprises a bore in the primary shaft extending axially inwardly from its bottom end and a secondary shaft that forms a part of the elongated primary wedge assembly. The width of the secondary shaft is smaller that the width of the bore so that it may be telescopically received therein. The secondary shaft has an external groove extending axially along a substantial portion of its length. A set screw is threadably seated in the primary shaft so that it extends radially inwardly far enough into the primary shaft that it extends into the external groove of the secondary shaft.

Abstract: This invention pertains to hydraulically actuated rock splitters which utilize a wedge and feather action. The forward movement of this wedge places a corresponding thrust load on the feathers and their retaining means. Conventionally, the feathers have enlarged portions which are engaged by and are retained by hardened steel thrust or wear plates carried by a shell or housing. As a means of keeping the weight within reasonable limits this housing is usually made of aluminum or an alloy of aluminum. The support for these hardened steel plates, as provided by the housing, is usually insufficient resulting in a cracking or breaking of the hardened steel plates. A lamination of these plates and providing a softer steel backing reduces or eliminates damage to the housing when cracking of the hardened steel plates occurs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing the surface layer from a concrete object. The method consists of providing a hole having a circular wall in the surface layer of the object, the hole being at least as deep as the thickness of the surface layer to be removed, and applying an outward wedging pressure on the wall of the hole sufficient to spall the surface layer around the hole. By the proper spacing of an appropriate number of holes, it is possible to remove the entire surface layer from an object.

Abstract: A rock splitter tool is hydraulically actuated by a piston which moves a tapered wedge between feathers mounted at one end in a retaining means. The feathers and wedge, as an assembly, are inserted into a predrilled hole and the wedge is driven forward by the hydraulic piston to move the feathers outwardly to split the rock. The present invention is directed toward providing a hydraulically moved wedge in which the feathers and wear plate portions are retained by a clam shell clamp and retainer which are readily separated and removed to enable an inspection and/or replacement of any damaged apparatus. This clam shell clamp enables existing apparatus to be converted. Auxiliary apparatus utilizing a jack hammer device is also shown as is a hydraulic pulsation developing rotary valve which is adapted to cycle the wedge as it is moved forwardly.

Abstract: A method for breaking a hard compact material such as rock or concrete. The method includes drilling a hole into the material, gripping a portion of the wall of the hole by applying a radially outwardly directed force thereto, and applying an axially outwardly directed force to the gripped region in order to cause cracks to arise in the wall of the hole. One of the forces is generated by means of sequentially repeated axially directed impacts. The apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a gripping means and a wedge means slidable relative to the gripping means. The gripping means and the wedge means have cooperating wedge surfaces. A rear extension member having a shoulder is attached to the wedge means. A hammer piston reciprocable in the apparatus housing delivers sequentially repeated axially directed impacts upon the shoulder.

Abstract: A method of breaking hard compact material such as rock adjacent a hole drilled thereinto and an apparatus for performing the method are described. Two forces contribute to efficiently breaking the rock: a force for firmly gripping a region of material adjacent the hole and an axial outwardly directed force. When breaking the material the force for firmly gripping the material is unidirectional with but separate from the axial outwardly directed force. To generate these forces wedge means and sleeve means of the apparatus are inserted into the hole and an axial outwardly directed thrust is exerted on the sleeve means by means of cooperating sliding wedge surfaces of the wedge means and sleeve means which converge towards the apparatus power means. This power means as well as the thrust transmitting means for transferring the reaction force are situated outside the hole.

Abstract: A reef winning machine comprises a frame on which is mounted a saddle. The saddle carries a boom on which is mounted a drill. The saddle also carries a member on which is carried a mechanical rock splitter. The drill and rock splitter operate simultaneously, the latter acting in a hole that had previously been drilled by the rock drill. A jack moves the saddle along the frame in steps that are the same as the distance between the drill and rock splitter. An impact breaker may be used instead of a rock splitter.

Abstract: An apparatus designed especially for mechanically breaking up reinforced concrete and comprising a cylinder containing a hydraulically-operated piston connected to a thrust wedge and acting upon two insertion pieces to be inserted in a borehole in the reinforced concrete or in stone. In order to avoid excessive wear and tear on the components by reducing the stresses to which they are subjected, the apparatus comprises a bracing part rigidly joined to the cylinder by tie plates, and the two end faces of the insertion pieces remote from the cylinder are braced against this bracing part, through which the thrust wedge passes when the apparatus is in operation. Thus the end faces of the insertion pieces can slide on the surface of the bracing part when they are driven apart by the advancing wedge.