Abstract: A locking device or button for hollow stem auger couplings including an outer body section having an internal bore, a locking pin assembly mounted within the bore, and cooperating cam structure for moving the pin assembly a predetermined distance between locked and unlocked positions. Seal means at opposite ends of the bore keeps water and dirt out of the bore and protects the cam structure.

Abstract: Apparatus is described for injecting grout or cementitious material into a small diameter hole which has been bored in the soil at a depth below a larger diameter hole for the purpose of obtaining an intact sample of soil and/or rock formation. The smaller diameter or second hole has a hollow rod from the apparatus inserted into it and grout injected through it and therearound into contact with the soil. The rod is detached from the apparatus which is removed and the mass of soil, rod and grout is recovered by overboring in a conventional manner.