Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to tools capable of amplifying or dampening axial forces produced by downhole equipment. More specifically, apparatus and methodologies provide a tool for imparting amplified axial loads (e.g., a hammer sub), or, in the alternative, for dampening/reducing downhole vibrations or “noise” (e.g., a suppressor sub).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of well drilling speed acceleration devices, and particularly to a torsion impact speed acceleration device, comprising: a main body (1), an anvil (2), an impact hammer (3), a conversion member (4), a mandrel (5) and a throttle nozzle (6); an inner limiting boss (7) is provided at an upper inner side of the main body (1), a drainage member (9) is mounted between the inner limiting boss (7) and the anvil (2), and a lower conical annular platform (24) which is a frustum having a wide upper portion and a narrow lower portion is provided at an upper inner side of the throttle nozzle (6). The present disclosure has a reasonable and compact structure and is convenient to be used.

Abstract: A downhole valve is described. The downhole valve has a pilot valve section and a tool section. The pilot valve section has a first tube. The tool section has a second tube slidably coupled to the first tube of the pilot valve section so as to provide fluid communication between the pilot valve section and the tool section. The tool section can be in the form of a signal valve section of a mud pulse telemetry valve, a reamer, a vertical steerable tool, a rotary steerable tool, a by-pass valve, a packer, a whipstock, or stabilizer.

Abstract: A reversible, pneumatic ground piercing tool has a tail assembly with exhaust passages therethrough. At least a portion of each exhaust passage angles radially inwardly and ends in discharge ports that communicate with a central hole at the rear end of the tail assembly, whereby exhaust escapes through the central hole. A tail cone has a radially inwardly extending flange on the inner periphery of the central hole, which flange is rearwardly spaced from and covers the discharge ports.

Abstract: A percussion apparatus driven by a pressurized incompressible fluid includes a body with two coaxial bores for slidably mounting of a tool, and separately slidably mounting a striking piston having a stepped configuration. A control device varies a stroke of the striking piston between a long and a short stroke, and is connected to the directional flow valve and to a bottom chamber of the piston cylinder. The control device includes a cylinder in which a spool is mounted. A first face of the spool is situated in a first chamber permanently subjected to a determined pressure, and a second face of the spool is situated in a second chamber connected to the braking chamber for controlling the varying of the stroke of the striking piston.

Abstract: A pneumatic device control apparatus and method comprising a ported valve slidably fitted over a feed tube of the pneumatic device, and using a compliant biasing device to constrain motion of the valve to provide asymmetric timing for extended pressurization of a power chamber and reduced pressurization of a return chamber of the pneumatic device. The pneumatic device can be a pneumatic hammer drill.

Abstract: The invention provides a down-the-hole drill assembly having exhaust passages from upper and lower chambers past the inner end of a bit and through the body of the bit to exit through the bit face. The construction of the assembly and bit obviates a foot valve tube from the head of the bit and the disadvantages associated with this component.

Abstract: A hydraulic drill string device can be in the form of a percussive hydraulic in-hole drilling machine that has a piston hammer (50) with an axial through hole (51) into which a tube (35) extends. The tube forms a channel for flushing fluid from a spool valve (62) and the tube wall contains channels (40) with ports (41,42) cooperating with the piston hammer for controlling the valve.

Abstract: A drive system for driving a sheet pile member at a desired location in the ground. The drive system comprises a source of pressurized air, an actuator system defining a drive axis, and an adapter member. The actuator system comprises a housing assembly having an inlet port connected to the source of pressurized air and a piston member adapted to move along the drive axis relative to the housing assembly. The adapter member is rigidly connected to the housing assembly. The adapter member further defines at least a first pair of first and second guide slots. In use, the sheet pile member is arranged at the desired location. The adapter member is arranged such that the first and second guide slots at least partly receive portions of the sheet pile member. The pressurized air causes the piston member to move along the drive axis.

Abstract: The lower end portion of a pneumatic impact hammer cylinder has at least one upper fluid passage and at least one lower fluid passage. A U-shaped sleeve is mounted in a circumferential groove in the lower end portion of the piston. The sleeve includes a base, upper and lower legs extending radially outward from the base, and a cavity extending axially between the legs. The sleeve has an axial length that is less than the axial length of the piston groove such that the sleeve is slidably movable within the piston groove between an upstroke position and a downstroke position. The upper fluid passage and the lower fluid passage cooperate with the sleeve cavity, as the piston reciprocates between the impact position and the recovery position, to supply pressure fluid to the impact end of the operating chamber for a portion of each upstroke and each downstroke.

Abstract: A downhole vibration tool consisting of a body assembly installed in a work string, and a drop-in dart valve assembly. An open inner bore through the body assembly allows the performance of operations through the body assembly. To activate the vibration tool, the dart valve assembly is dropped into the work string and pumped downhole into engagement with the body assembly. Once the dart valve assembly is in place in the body assembly, continued pumping of fluid will cause the tool to begin to vibrate longitudinally. When the jarring operation is finished, the dart valve assembly can be released from the body assembly and retrieved, with a wireline or coiled tubing unit.

Abstract: A diesel hammer system for driving piles. In one form of the invention, a control pinion is attached to a cam member employed to adjust the volume of a fuel portion of a pump chamber. A control rack is arranged to engage the control pinion such that linear movement of the control rack is translated into rotational movement of the control pinion. A hydraulic cylinder assembly is provided having a control housing and a control piston. The control piston is attached to the control rack such that linear movement of the control piston is transferred to the control rack. Hydraulic fluid is introduced into the control housing to cause linear movement of the control piston. Conventional hydraulic controls may be used at a remote location to introduce hydraulic fluid into the appropriate portions of the control housing chamber. In another form of the invention, indicia are formed on a housing of the variable fuel pump to allow an operator to see the setting of the fuel pump.

Abstract: The harness fixing device comprises: a rotatable member for holding a wiring harness; and a fixing device body for holding the rotatable member rotatably in the circumferential direction, wherein the rotatable member is provided with a harness guiding wall having a curved shape and the harness guiding wall is rotatable integrally with the wiring harness. The rotatable member is movable in the longitudinal direction of the harness in the fixing device body simultaneously with the rotation. The harness guiding wall is formed over the whole circumference of the rotatable member. An inner surface of the harness guiding wall is flush with an inner surface for holding the harness of the rotatable member. The rotatable member has a portion for holding a corrugated tube of the wiring harness.

Abstract: The present invention provides a post driver which includes various post adaptors having different cross-sections. The post adaptors can be attached to, and detached from, a head portion of the post driver. An adaptor is attached to the head portion by retracting a pin in the head portion, sliding the adaptor into slots on the head portion, and releasing the pin such that the pin extends through an aperture of the adaptor. A post having a cross-section comparable to that of the adaptor can then be inserted into the adaptor, allowing the post driver to drive the post into the ground. The adaptor can be removed from the head portion by retracting the pin and sliding the adaptor out of the slots. If another type of post is to be driven into the ground, a corresponding adaptor can be attached to the head portion.

Abstract: A down-the-hole percussive hammer includes a casing, a drill bit attached to a lower end of the casing, and a reciprocable hammer for impacting against the drill bit. A top sub attached to an upper end of the casing includes a central passage for conducting operating air for actuating the piston. A feed tube is attached to the top sub and extends along a center axis thereof. The feed tube includes vertically spaced outlet and re-entry ports sealed from one another by a seal disposed inside of the feed tube. The outlet and re-entry ports communicate with a chamber formed in the central passage. A check valve is disposed at an upper end of the feed tube. The check valve includes an elastic sleeve arranged to overlie the outlet port and to be elastically biased away from the outlet port by pressurized operating air, whereupon the operating air passes out of the feed tube through the outlet port and then back into the feed tube through the re-entry port.

Abstract: A hammer device has a machine housing (1) with a hammer piston (2) movable to-and-fro. The to-and-fro movement of the hammer piston is controlled by a valve body (6) movable to-and-fro in the machine housing. The valve body, via a channel (7), alternatively connects a drive surface (5) on the hammer piston to a pressure source (8) and to low pressure (9). In order to expedite the actuation of the hammer piston at its rear dead center, the machine housing has a room (10) which is separated from the channel (7) by the hammer piston at the same time that the valve body (6) maintains the pressure from the pressure source (8) on the rear end surface (5) of the hammer piston.

Abstract: A hand drill including a housing (2), a rotary drive (8-15) arranged in the housing (2) for driving a chuck (6) provided at a front, in the drilling direction, end of the housing and in which a drill or a chisel tool is received, a compressed air-operated hammer mechanism having a pneumatic cylinder (22), a die member (15) for imparting axial blows to the drill or chisel tool, and a percussion piston (30) displaceable in the pneumatic cylinder 922) upon being impinged by compressed air for intermittently applying axial blows to the die member (15), and a reversing valve for connecting the hammer mechanism (22) with a source of compressed air, integrated in the percussion piston (30), and having a plurality of recesses and bores (46-52) alternatively operationally connectable with at least one inlet opening (23) and at least one discharge opening (24) of the pneumatic cylinder (22) for feeding the compressed air into the pneumatic cylinder (22) and for discharging the compressed air therefrom.

Abstract: Down-the-hole drilling machine comprising a housing (1) with a hammer piston (5) movable to-and-fro and intended to exert a drill bit (3) to impacts. The hammer piston is formed with two piston heads (6,7) and a waist (9) between them. An intermediate wall (10) is arranged around the waist (9) so that two chambers (11,12) are formed on either side of the intermediate wall. The chamber (11) between the intermediate wall and the forward piston head (6) is continuously pressurized via a first channel (13) in the intermediate wall. The chamber (12) is via a second channel (15) in the intermediate wall connected to a space (16) in front of the hammer piston (5). Through this double drive areas are obtained during the working stroke of the hammer piston.

Abstract: An air-driven post driver that includes a hammer assembly and a post receiving assembly. The hammer assembly includes an air-driven piston hammer slidably disposed within a cylinder bore of a cylinder body having a circumferential compressed air groove of a first groove width formed into the cylinder wall that defines the cylinder bore and an upper discharge port and a lower discharge port. The piston hammer includes an upward thrusting air passageway and a downward thrusting air passageway. The upward thrusting air passageway includes a radially oriented upward intake passageway and a longitudinally oriented upward discharge passageway. The upward discharge passageway is of a length greater than one half the length of the piston hammer. The downward thrusting passageway includes a radially oriented downward intake passageway and a longitudinally oriented downward discharge passageway having a threaded downward discharge port.

Abstract: There is provided a guided drilling system and an in-the-hole shock absorber adapted thereto. The guided drilling system includes a drill string configured to continuously and accurately bore a hole in the ground without the need to periodically break the connection of the drill string. In order to protect the components of the drilling system a hollow core shock absorber for percussive drill strings has been designed. A centrally disposed coil spring transmits the necessary thrust to a percussive hammer while providing a resilient cushion for vibration displacement. Pressurized fluid flows through the center of the shock absorber through a poppet valve.

Abstract: A reverse circulation down-the-hole drill includes an outer wear sleeve (1) and a backhead (2) assembly located at one end of the outer wear sleeve (1) for connecting the drill to a double-walled drill string and to a source of pressure fluid to actuate the drill. A fluid diverter (5) is mounted inside the outer wear sleeve (1) adjacent to the backhead (2). An inner tube (9), concentric with the outer wear sleeve (1) and extending into the fluid diverter (5), defines at least part of a central return passageway in the drill. A bit (10), located by a chuck (3) at the other end of the outer wear sleeve (1), is slidably mounted on the inner tube (9) in an annular chamber (28, 30) defined by the outer wear sleeve, by the inner tube, by the diverter at one end (28), and by the bit at the other end (30).

Abstract: A pneumatic hammer is provided with an adjusting piston (37) dependent on the supply pressure, which adjusts the stroke length of the working piston (16). Thereby, the same pneumatic hammer may be operated both at low and high supply pressures. With high supply pressures, either the early ending of the acceleration phase or the early start of the compression phase or the shortening of the working cylinder shortens the stroke length. Thereby, the pneumatic hammer performs impacts with a substantially constant single-impact energy, regardless of the supply pressure. High supply pressures increase the impact frequency. This results in a considerably improved efficiency at a high drill capacity, a reduced wear and a reduced risk of ruptures of the components of the hammer.

Abstract: In a percussion mach in particular a self-propelled ram boring machine, with a percussion piston which is axially movable in the machine housing, has a hollow piston rod and is acted on by a pressure medium via a supply hose connected to the rear end of the housing, a piston rod bore communicates with the pressure medium supply when the percussion piston is in the front end position and communicates with a discharge opening when the percussion piston is in the rear end position.

Abstract: A valveless-type down-the-hole hammer drill which has an inner tube extending from the upper end of the hammer body into a central opening in a cutter bit reciprocably mounted in a chuck on the opposite end of the hammer body. High pressure fluid is supplied to the interior of the inner tube and a piston surrounding the inner tube has internal surfaces controlling connection of a port to chambers above and below the piston. The external surface of the piston controls connection of these chambers to an exhaust port. A valve sleeve on the chuck coacts with the piston in this respect.

Abstract: A downhole hammer having a fluid inlet controlled by a check valve. The valve assembly is used to remove subsidence from a bore hole to prevent problems caused by bore hole collapse. The valve assembly contains a housing and fluid inlet and outlet. A valve is positioned in the housing between the fluid inlet and outlet. A bypass passageway is also provided in the housing between the fluid inlet and the bore hole exterior.

Abstract: A valveless-type down-the-hole hammer drill which has an inner tube extending from the upper end of the hammer body into a central opening in a cutter bit reciprocably mounted in a chuck on the opposite end of the hammer body. High pressure fluid is supplied to the interior of the inner tube and a piston surrounding the inner tube has internal surfaces controlling connection of a port to chambers above and below the piston. The external surface of the piston controls connection of these chambers to an exhaust port. A valve sleeve on the chuck coacts with the piston in this respect.

Abstract: A downhole hammer is provided comprising a casing having a top sub at one end and a drill bit and support at the other end. A central tube is extended therethrough to define an annular space between the casing and the tube. A reciprocating piston is accommodated within the annular space and is operated by injecting a pressurized fluid from the surface into the annular space via a plurality of ports in the casing. The pressurized fluid is exhausted into the central tube and toward the surface via a plurality of passageways therethrough without contacting the borehole.

Abstract: A pneumatic percussion hammer casing (10), a top sub (23) connected to the outer tube of a double tube drill stem, an air feed pipe (19) extending from the top sub (23) co-axially into the casing and co-axially about an air outflow pipe (21) connected at its upper end to the inner drill stem tube, its lower end slidable in an air passage (38) through bit (31) the shank of which (32) is slidable in a driver sub (33) at the lower casing end and topped by an anvil (35), a passage (43) having ducts (39,44) extending to the exterior of the bit (31). A tubular piston (27), slidable in the casing (10) co-axially about the air outflow pipe (21) engages, when brought down onto the anvil (35), tube (37) rising from passage (38) through the bit, shank and anvil. Annular chambers (11, 12, 13) are formed within the casing (10) and the axial passage of the piston is divided into upper and lower passages (29,30).

Abstract: A ram boring implement having a pneumatically or hydraulically driven percussion piston, movable axially in a reciprocating manner in a housing, and an axially movable bit which is connected to an end of the housing and acted upon directly or indirectly by the percussion piston, is of a structure which permits a restoring piston, connected to the bit, to be acted upon by the pneumatic or hydraulic pressure during the return stroke of the percussion piston.

Abstract: Pressurized water is used to operate a percussive down-the-hole drill and the spent motive fluid is used as a flushing fluid. A rear cylinder chamber (24) is constantly pressurized and a valve (28) controls the inlet from the chamber (24) to a bore (23) through the piston hammer (21). A valve (42) controls the outlet from the front cylinder chamber (26) to a flushing channel (38) in the drill bit (21). A check valve (45) controls the outlet from the bore (23) to the front cylinder chamber (26).

Abstract: A pneumatic impact tool wherein a two-stage piston is reciprocable in the two-stage chamber of a cylinder. The tool which is to penetrate into a bone is mounted in the front portion of the cylinder and the piston strikes against such front portion in response to admission of compressed air against its rear end face. A relatively small annular shoulder of the piston faces forwardly and is continuously acted upon by compressed air. When the piston approaches or reaches the end of its forward stroke and rebounds from the front end portion of the cylinder, it seals the source of compressed air from its rear end face so that the action of compressed air upon the shoulder suffices to propel the piston rearwardly against the rear end portion of the cylinder at which time the piston reestablishes a path for the flow of compressed air against its rear end face so that it is propelled forwardly against the front end portion of the cylinder.

Abstract: A percussive action machine includes a housing in which a hammer is movably secured to define a forward stroke chamber and a return stroke chamber. The hammer is provided with an air-distributor fashioned as a sleeve having holes. The hammer is further provided with a device for alternately communicating the return stroke chamber with the forward stroke chamber and with the outside, the device having the form of at least one bore arranged inside the hammer in line with its axis. Communicating with this bore is a tubular control valve extending through the forward stroke chamber and having in its wall at least one hole wherethrough the return stroke chamber alternately communicates with the forward stroke chamber and with the outside.

Abstract: A pneumatic downhole impact drill having a porting system for automatically and sequentially supplying pneumatic pressure fluid from a fluid delivery tube received within a central coaxial bore in an impact piston to the opposite ends of the piston operating cylinder as the piston reciprocates and for selectively and automatically connecting the non-impact end of the cylinder to exhaust via the coaxial bore in the piston as the piston reciprocates. The porting system provides two separate paths for supplying pneumatic pressure fluid to the non-impact end of the cylinder and employs annular porting grooves and internal drilled porting bores in only the non-impact end of the piston to minimize stress concentration from piston impact.

Abstract: A reciprocating machine comprising a cylinder with a drive chamber and a return chamber; a piston arranged to move to and fro in the cylinder with a first piston area exposed to the drive chamber and being smaller than a second piston area exposed to the return chamber; a permanently open inlet for fluid to the drive chamber; a restricted outlet for fluid from the return chamber; a bore extending through the piston from a port in its first area to its second area; a first valve with a head adapted to seat on the port and a stem guided in the end wall of the drive chamber; and means for limiting the extent of travel of the first valve with the piston so that the first valve can travel with the piston only part of the way from the drive chamber toward the return chamber.

Abstract: A fluid operated rock drill hammer includes an annular hammer body with the upper end of the hammer body adapted to be connected to a drill string and with a drill chuck mounted at the lower end of the hammer body. A drill bit extends through the drill chuck into the body. A piston is slidably mounted in the hammer body to move between the drill bit and the upper end of the hammer body for striking the portion of the drill bit that extends through the drill chuck. The force for moving the piston is provided by a fluid that is circulated through the drill string into the hammer body. A restricted exhaust port is provided for preventing back hammering of the piston by maintaining a high fluid pressure in the space between the piston and the upper end of the hammer body when the bit is off bottom.

Abstract: A fluid operated rock drill hammer includes an annular hammer body with the upper end of the hammer body adapted to be connected to a drill string and with a drill chuck mounted at the lower end of the hammer body. A drill bit extends through the drill chuck into the body. A piston is slidably mounted in the hammer body to move axially between the drill bit and the upper end of the hammer body for striking the portion of the drill bit that extends through the drill chuck. The force for moving the piston is provided by a circulating fluid that is transmitted through the drill string into the hammer body. All of the fluid is transmitted between the hammer body and the piston at a single fixed axial position along the length of the hammer body.

Abstract: A reciprocating pneumatic motor for rock drills and the like wherein a freely-movable hammer piston repeatedly strikes the end of a drill rod, usually a rotating drill rod. Fluid under pressure enters a single, central inlet port in the wall of a cylinder which houses the piston with alternate cycling ports being incorporated into the piston itself. Also disclosed is a muffler for such a pneumatic motor.

Abstract: A power control device for a pneumatic motor includes a pressure air supply flow limiting means in the form of a flow restriction having a diverging, pressure recovering outlet. The device also comprises a load responsive pressure relief means which is located downstream of the flow restriction and which is arranged to gradually release pressure air from the motor into the atmosphere in response to decreasing load applied on the motor. The device is effective in reducing the motor power in response to decreasing load upon the motor. The disclosed motor is a hammer piston impact tool, and the motor load responsive pressure release means comprises the forward end of the motor cylinder and passages on a thrust sleeve which receives the shank of a chisel and which is slidingly received in the cylinder.

Abstract: A Pneumatic impact drilling tool, particularly useful as a downhole pneumatic drill, includes a housing structure adapted to be connected to a string of drill pipe and supplied with compressed air therethrough. A hammer piston reciprocates in the housing structure along flexible feed and exhaust tubes. Compressed air is directed alternately to the upper and lower ends of the hammer to effect its reciprocation in the housing. The hammer is operable to strike an anvil bit member repeatedly to effect a drilling motion. At the upper end of the housing there is provided a removable annular plug member surrounding the tubular support in which the feeder tube is positioned. The annular plug member defines the volume of the space above the hammer piston and is related to the size of the feeder tube so that the feeder tube and plug member together determine the volume of air utilized at any selected air pressure and the timing of operation of the hammer position.

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.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated impact drilling tool for earth drilling, includes a reciprocating hammer, an anvil positioned under the hammer and a feeder tube extending through the hammer and at least partially through the anvil. The drilling tool is connected to a string of drilling pipe and high pressure compressed air or other pneumatic fluid is introduced to operate the tool. The feeder directs the flow of fluid through ports in the hammer to alternate pressure on opposite sides of the hammer to move the same upward and downward relative to the anvil. A venturi arrangement in the feeder tube functions to produce a vacuum which is applied to the opposite end of the hammer from the end at which pressure is being applied for moving the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pneumatic impact devices and can be used to the best advantage for making holes in compacted soils.The device is provided with a hollow casing which accommodates a stepped ram with the maximum-diameter step in its front part. This step has longitudinal channels which open at one end into a working chamber defined by the maximum-diameter step and the side walls of the casing and serving for receiving compressed air from the compressed air line, with the air moving the striker to impart a blow after which it is discharged through holes in the casing.

Abstract: An impact drilling tool for rotary drilling which includes a reciprocating hammer inside a casing for striking the top of an anvil. A drilling bit is connected to the opposite end of the anvil for cutting into the earth's formations. The casing is connected in a string of drilling pipe through which a high pressure fluid flows for operating the hammer and removing cuttings. A feeder means extends through the hammer for alternately directing the high pressure fluid above and below the hammer which high pressure fluid causes the reciprocating motion of the hammer. A shuttle valve located around the feeder maintains communication of the high pressure fluid above the hammer for increased effective stroke to insure a harder driving action of the hammer against the anvil. Also the shuttle valve insures a more complete exhaust above the hammer which reduces the force needed to raise the hammer. In alternative embodiments, the shuttle may control only one of the exhaust or pressurization functions.

Abstract: A pneumatic percussion machine such as a drill, having a piston reciprocating in a casing, chambers formed in casing at or towards the ends of the piston, the arrangement permitting compressed air to be supplied alternatively to the chambers, the compressed air to the one chamber being supplied through a projecting member located co-axially in the casing and over which the piston reciprocates and compressed air from the other chamber being exhausted through the projecting member to the other chamber.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated impact drilling tool for rotary drilling, includes a reciprocating hammer, an anvil positioned under the hammer and a feeder means extending through the hammer. The drilling tool is connected in a string of drilling pipe and high pressure pneumatic fluid flowing through the drilling pipe operates the impact tool. The feeder directs and times the flow of fluid through ports in the hammer to create a first pressure zone to raise the hammer off the anvil, and a second pressure zone above the hammer to drive the hammer down against the anvil to create an impact on the drill bit. Exhaust ports in the hammer exhaust the fluid from the second pressure zone.