Abstract: A pile 13 is driven into the ground 5 by a ram 8 driven by a hydraulic cylinder 37. The pile 13 is guided through a guide 2 having a detachable end portion 4 which is embedded in the ground. The guide 2 and cylinder 37 are vertically slideable on a rail 3 and can be raised and lowered by a further hydraulic ram 39 located at the upper end of the rail 3. Further piles are loaded through a door 11 in the side of the guide 2 and each pile is driven in a single stroke. The apparatus is transportable on a tracked vehicle 41. By supporting the pile 13 in a tubular guide 2 during driving it is possible to use pile sections of small diameter which are light and easy to handle. Pile sections are connected using a tubular metal joint member.

Abstract: An apparatus for lifting a pneumatic hammer from the hammer's work surface. A pneumatic lift attachment is provided having a support housing. Attached to the support housing is a lift plate, containing a guide hole and an adjustable chain, for securing a pneumatic hammer to the lift plate. Defined within the housing is an air cylinder containing a piston having a piston rod. The piston is responsive to air supplied to the air cylinder, which drives the piston and piston rod downward. Attached to the bottom of the piston rod is a foot. As the foot meets the ground's surface, the support housing is lifted, freeing the attached hammer from the work surface.

Abstract: A device for applying a working or assembling process to an article at an appropriately selected position as temporarily mounted to a supporting plate through a hole formed therein, having a housing of a generally twofold tubular structure, an annular piston disposed in an annular space in said housing and adapted to be axially reciprocated by selective supply or exhaust of pressure fluid, and a plurality of cotter members arranged in the tubular housing so as to be selectively driven out of the tubular housing radially outwardly as driven by the annular piston by way of a wedging engagement with the annular piston, so that the cotter members are driven against the inner peripheral wall surface of the hole of the supporting plate with very high force available by the wedging engagement.

Abstract: A welding head base to facilitate the mounting of a welding head assembly thereon for the purpose of welding a joint between abutted ends of a pipe. The base is mounted on the edges of a thin, sheet material, continuous band track and is capable of low frictional movement, through a series of wheel assemblies, relative to the track. Each wheel assembly includes a wheel with each wheel including an enlarged flange to facilitate the mounting of the welding head base onto the track. Mounted on the fixed section of the base is a sprocket assembly with a sprocket wheel that is to be rotatably driven by a motor. The sprocket is to engage with a series of gear teeth formed within the track. The sprocket assembly is to be movable from an operating position (in engagement with the track) to a retracted position (spacing the sprocket wheel from the track). Movement of the sprocket assembly is caused through the use of a manually operated cam assembly.

Abstract: A compact, easily disassembled, minimum headroom drilling unit is disclosed. The drill, especially useful for newly developed vertical retreat mining methods, drills at compound angles from the vertical and horizontal directions. Low headroom is achieved by the employment of a double acting hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: An automatic compaction assembly for compacting samples of asphaltic or bituminous materials is disclosed. A slide hammer is carried for vertical motion along a guide rod which has a compaction foot at a lower end. A drive chain is driven along a generally triangular path by a suitable drive motor and has weight engaging and raising lugs. An upper chain sprocket shuttle and a lower chain sprocket shuttle are slideably carried in a main frame of the compactor and cooperate with a drive sprocket on the drive motor to define the triangular path of chain travel. A horizontal overarm is formed as a portion of the upper shuttle and receives the upper end of the guide rod. As the guide rod moves downwardly, the release point defined by the upper shuttle also moves down thereby maintaining a constant weight drop distance during sample compaction. The slide weight, after being released from the drive chain continues to move upwardly along the guide rod until its upward travel is halted by gravity.

Abstract: A demolition tool is provided with an extractor for removing the chisel or drill from the working surface. The extractor is a piston equipped with a foot which maintains contact with the work surface. When the tool is to be extracted the piston is actuated to press down on the working surface causing the chisel or drill to be forced upward.

Abstract: In a pneumatic nail driver, compressed air drives a working piston in the driving direction within a working cylinder. An inlet valve controls the flow of compressed air into the working cylinder. A sensing element mounted on the front end of the driver moves opposite to the driving direction when it is pressed against the receiving material for the nail. The sensing element pivots a shift lever which in turn moves a safety valve for controlling in one position the flow of compressed air to the control space associated with the inlet valve and in another position to connect the control space to the ambient atmosphere.

Abstract: A percussive-action pneumatic tool comprising a handle-carrying frame having successively accommodated therein a shock-absorber and a housing with the percussion mechanism therein, connected through a gas distribution system to a compressed air source. The frame has a length sufficient for abutting against the surface of a material being worked and has a guide which receives the housing with the percussion mechanism. The shock-absorber includes a receptacle mounted on the frame and communicating via a controllable valve alternatively with the compressed air source and the atmosphere, a rod being mounted in this receptacle, adapted to act upon the housing with the percussion mechanism, to move the housing relatively to the frame as compressed air is supplied into the receptacle.

Abstract: A feed beam for a rock drill comprises a box girder (13), a saddle (10) slidable along the box girder, and two power units (20,20a) inserted into the ends of the box girder.Each power unit comprises a pair of fixed pulleys (22,24) located outside the end of the box girder, an hydraulic jack (26) carrying a pair of movable pulleys (28,30) within the box girder, and a cable coupled between the power unit and the saddle and passing over the four pulleys.

Abstract: A rock bolting apparatus is shown in which a rock drill and a rock bolt setting device are interchangeable on the same elongated guide of a feed beam. When the rock drill is in operative position on the feed beam, the bolt setting device hangs on the side of the feed beam and vice versa.

Abstract: The invention herein relates to an undercutting device which is provided with a substantially tubular body adapted to be placed within a parallel-sided hole. A rotary percussion head is provided at one end of the body and has one or more cutting tools which extend radially therefrom at an obtuse angle and which cutting tools are adapted to cut outwardly from the radius of the body, means are provided for rotating the head about the axis of the body and for operating the percussion head at one predetermined depth in the hole so that the cutting tools may act on the wall of the parallel-sided hole.

Abstract: A device for mounting a hand operated drill such as a rotary or sinker drill on a backhoe attachment for tractors and trucks including a slide mounted tool carrier attached to a roller chain loop mounted on a mast assembly. The mast assembly is either removably mounted on the bucket of the backhoe attachment or to the bucket linkage.High cycle oscillation is dampened by a shock absorber booster spring assembly.The spring assembly may also be used in combination with a fluid control valve mechanism to automatically adjust the drilling and vance.A trunnion assembly may be provided to increase the positionability of the mounting device.A flow control valve connected to the spring assembly automatically maintains constant thrust values to the drill.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for mechanically compacting bituminous paving materials is disclosed comprising a compaction foot having a guide rod extending upwardly therefrom. A compaction hammer is slidable on the guide rod and means are provided for elevating the hammer to a position spaced above the foot. Means are provided for releasing the hammer from the elevating means, the releasing means including means for pivoting the guide rod and the hammer away from their normal vertical position to permit the hammer to fall and strike the compaction foot. The means for pivoting the guide rod includes a releaser body pivotally fixed to the guide rod.