Abstract: A wellbore casing formed by extruding a tubular liner off of a mandrel. The tubular liner and mandrel are positioned within a new section of a wellbore with the tubular liner in an overlapping relationship with an existing casing. A hardenable fluidic material is injected into the new section of the wellbore below the level of the mandrel and into the annular region between the tubular liner and the new section of the wellbore. The inner and outer regions of the tubular liner are then fluidicly isolated. A non hardenable fluidic material is then injected into a portion of an interior region of the tubular liner to pressurize the portion of the interior region of the tubular liner below the mandrel. The tubular liner is then extruded off of the mandrel.

Abstract: The apparatus is an underground structure liner based upon an inflatable liner structure. An acid resistant layer is the innermost layer of an inflatable liner, and the liner is coated with epoxy resin on its outermost surface, the surface which contacts the existing walls of the underground structure. The outermost coated surface of the liner is constructed with a fibrous fleece layer for retention of the epoxy and adhesion of the epoxy to the walls of the underground structure. An added feature of the liner is a structure which also seals the liner to pipes entering the underground structure.

Abstract: A process for lining an existing pipeline or conduit with a flexible resin impregnated cured in place liner by pulling in the liner and inflating an eversion bladder with air and curing the liner with flow-through steam without loss of pressure is provided. The bladder is stored in a pressure bladder canister coupled to a pressurized downtube and eversion elbow. The bladder is everted by introducing pressurized air into the canister As the bladder reaches the distal manhole, it enters a receiving canister where it is punctured while maintaining air pressure within the bladder a pinch valve between the downtube and elbow isolates the inverted bladder so that steam can be introduced into the bladder to cure the resin and exhaust through the receiving canister. The bladder is then removed and lateral service reinstated.

Abstract: The apparatus is an underground structure liner based upon an inflatable liner structure. An acid resistant layer is the innermost layer of an inflatable liner, and the liner is coated with epoxy resin on its outermost surface, the surface which contacts the existing walls of the underground structure. The outermost coated surface of the liner is constructed with a fibrous fleece layer for retention of the epoxy and adhesion of the epoxy to the walls of the underground structure. An added feature of the liner is a structure which also seals the liner to pipes entering the underground structure.

Abstract: A device for supporting two constructional elements against each other consisting of at least one upset tube arranged between pressure transmitting plates located at the ends of the tube for the purpose of limiting inward and outward bulging. The upset tube is coaxially arranged between two supporting tubes having a smaller length than the upset tube of which the external supporting tube encloses the upset tube at a radial distance.

Abstract: A method for reducing frictional loss in unlined tunnels or other tunnels with a rough wall surface and/or irregular cross section. A flexible or rigid pipe with a cross section similar to or somewhat less than the largest circular open cross section of the tunnel is introduced into the tunnel and attached continuously or at certain points to parts of the tunnel wall. Apparatus for ensuring that a superpressure occurs within the pipe relative to its outside during flow are also introduced.

Abstract: A device for supporting two constructional elements against each other consisting of at least one upset tube (2) arranged between pressure transmitting plates (1) located at its end sides that is, for the purpose of limiting inward and outward bulging, coaxially arranged between two supporting tubes (5, 6) having a smaller length than the upset tube (2) of which the external supporting tube (6) encloses the upset tube (2) at a radial distance.

Abstract: For the purpose of fastening cables to the inner wall of a non-accessible waste-water pipe, an internal liner has been developed, which is constructed from at least two layers, the first layer, which rests against the internal wall of the pipe when in the laid condition, having a profile or empty spaces for receiving cables, and a second layer, of envelope-like type, which carries the first layer.

Abstract: An assembly for introducing a pipe liner into a branch line includes a launcher defining a passageway through which a resin impregnated pipe liner and bladder tube assembly passes. An inflatable member mounted to the launcher assembly is actuatable between an inflatable condition and a deflated condition. The pipe liner and bladder tube are secured in place by expanding the inflatable member outward against the inner surface of the branch line. Air pressure drives the bladder tube and pipe liner into the branch line. The bladder tube remains in place until the pipe liner hardens.

Abstract: A modular protective sleeve for underground utilities may be pulled into an underground utility duct by using lanyards extending between two adjacent manholes through the utility duct. The modular protective sleeve may be assembled over an existing and active utility service such as electrical or telephone cables, optical cables, or gas lines, without disrupting the utility service. The protective sleeve comprises at least one bottom half-shell and two top half-shells which are interlocked on to another in such a way that they may be pulled in either direction. Once the protective sleeve is in place, the concrete casing surrounding the utility duct may be broken without danger to the utility service, after which repair or splicing to the utility can be carried out. The sleeve may then be retrieved for re-use, or left in place.

Abstract: A primary support for a tunnel roof comprising elongated lagging members which are “extruded” from tubes forming a shield for a tunnel boring machine. The lagging is inserted into the tubes at different times so as to avoid having the ends of adjacent lagging members coincide. As the tunneling machine progresses in the direction of boring, the lagging members emerge from the shield tubes to form a primary tunnel roof lining. Ring beams or arc beams may be installed as required by rock bolts or other fastening devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liner comprising a flexible material (1) with means adapted to increase the surface area thereof, and adhesive/sealant (2) and a release tape (3) with reinforcing strips (4). An example of a means of adapting the surface, whereby strips of adhesive/sealant (5) are applied to the release tape and then the flexible material (1) applied and compacted to form the profile. The liner is then formed into a tube. It may be folded into a cruciform shape. An end elevational view of a folded liner in a pipe (6) prior to application of the pipe.

Abstract: A light weight foam block being substantially rectangular in shape, having horizontal and/or vertical pairs of tongues and grooves around its perimeter enabling it to interlock with horizontally and/or vertically adjacent blocks to construct a mine stopping wall.

Abstract: The disclosure is for an underground structure liner based upon an inflatable liner structure. An acid resistant layer is the innermost layer of an inflatable liner, and the liner is coated with epoxy resin on its outermost surface, the surface which contacts the existing walls of the underground structure. The outermost coated surface of the liner is constructed with a fibrous fleece layer for better retention of the epoxy and better adhesion of the epoxy to the walls of the underground structure. An added feature of the liner is a structure which also seals the liner to pipes entering the underground structure.

Abstract: The disclosure is for an underground structure liner based upon an inflatable liner structure. An acid resistant layer is the innermost layer of an inflatable liner, and the liner is coated with epoxy resin on its outermost surface, the surface which contacts the existing walls of the underground structure. The outermost coated surface of the liner is constructed with a fibrous fleece layer for better retention of the epoxy and better adhesion of the epoxy to the walls of the underground structure. An added feature of the liner is a structure which also seals the liner to pipes entering the underground structure.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a main casing section to a lateral casing section using thermoset plastic molding. The apparatus is used to set a flexible sock made of a hardenable material at a location adjacent to an intersection between the main and lateral casing sections. The sock is inflated so that it conforms to the inner surfaces of the main and lateral casing sections. Heat is applied to the hardenable material so that the sock is cured in the inflated, operating position. Heat may be applied by releasing chemicals which provide an exothermic reaction and/or by using a heater positioned within the sock.

Abstract: The lining (1) of a tunnel is reinforced without reducing the tunnel bore. Grooves (6, 9) are cut into the tunnel lining (1) following the maximum curvature or skew to that, sometimes with one set of grooves crossing another set of different depth. Each groove (6, 9) is of generally T section and one or more rods (11) encased in a fabric sleeve (12) are inserted through the narrow mouth (6) of each groove (the stem of the T) to be within the enlarged part (9) ( the cross-bar of the T). Grout (13) injected into the sleeve expands it against the groove, and some seeps through to bond to the lining (1). Further anchoring may be achieved by drilling through the lining at the ends of the grooves into surrounding rock (15) to receive expansion bolts which are secured to the ends of the rods (11) or further grouted reinforced sleeves (17) which may be extensions of the main sleeves.

Abstract: A construction method for widening road, superhighway or railway tunnels, without interrupting the traffic flow includes a first stage of excavation; in steps, of the ground between the theoretical profile of the future widened tunnel and that of the original tunnel, after having reinforced the ground between the theoretical profile of the future widened tunnel and that of the original tunnel by reinforcement operations on the face, and a second stage in which the final lining, comprising one or more arches of prefabricated segments is placed close to the face.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tunneling method starting from the working face in the driving direction, a bearing layer being laid as the working face progresses and then carried away together with the debris. The inventive system includes at the front an excavating tool capable of removing broken rock up to a certain width and a certain height, and an advancing device for moving forward and steering the system, and a control and setting device for controlling and regulating the operation of the excavating tool and the advancing device.

Abstract: A wall is built in the ground by pulling a wall building device having cross-sectional dimensions which are substantially equal to the dimensions of at least a part of the cross-section of the wall through the ground, at least a part of the wall being formed by injecting a hardenable material behind the wall building device. A tunnel is made by first making a tunnel wall, leaving the ground inside the tunnel wall substantially intact, followed by excavating the ground inside the tunnel wall.

Abstract: Flexible liners for relining fluid transport pipelines contain at least one integral conduit which has no fluid communication with either the interior of the lining of the relined pipeline, or with the inside wall of the pipeline itself. The integral but substantially fluid-isolated conduit may serve to carry telecommunications or other cables, thus providing an economical means of introducing telecommunications through existing pipeline infrastructure without necessitating abandonment of the fluid transport capabilities of the pipeline.

Abstract: A cylindrical cavity is continuously contacted while removing a rigid liner from within the cavity. The supporting apparatus includes a flexible liner insertable within the rigid liner, having an expanded diameter greater than a diameter of the cavity, and having a top end and closed bottom end. A hollow conduit is attached to the bottom end of the flexible liner and has an opening adjacent the bottom end for introducing a fluid to expand the flexible liner against the cavity and contact the cavity as the rigid liner is withdrawn from about the flexible liner.

Abstract: One or more electric and/or data transmitting cables are confined in an elongated strip-shaped body containing a hardenable resin or the like, and the body is placed against a portion of the internal surface of an underground sewage, water or other pipe. An expandible tubular liner is thereupon introduced into the pipe and is expanded to press the body against the pipe. The body is caused to set, by conveying a hot fluid through the liner and/or by electrically heating the cable or cables, and to adhere to the internal surface of the pipe. The liner can remain in the pipe and can be bonded to the strip-shaped body and/or to the remaining portion of the internal surface of the pipe. Alternatively, the liner is caused to collapse and is withdrawn from the pipe once the strip-shaped body is bonded to the internal surface of the pipe.

Abstract: The invention relates to an expandable liner for completing a hole in an underground formation, the liner being constituted by a spiral-wound strip with the longitudinal edges of the strip having complementary touching profiles so that after it has been expanded, the liner is circular in section. The invention also provides a method of completing a well finally or temporarily by installing a spiral-wound liner of the invention, expanding it, and optionally cementing it.

Abstract: A pressure containment device enables the installation of an everting liner without requiring a shipping container that can be pressurized. A pressure housing provides an inlet for receiving the liner and an outlet for installing the liner into the borehole. First and second movable belts have first and second sealing surfaces, respectively, for receiving the liner at the inlet of the pressure housing, and first and second interior surfaces for urging the first and second sealing surfaces against the liner when the pressure housing is pressurized. First rollers support the first and second movable belts within the pressure housing.

Abstract: An installation for storing of natural gas or some other fluid comprises a lined underground storage space. Inside the rock wall of the storage space there is a concrete layer for supporting an inner impermeable lining layer. According to the invention, the concrete layer has a crack distribution control reinforcement layer closer to the impermeable lining layer than to the rock wall in order to divide large cracks into smaller cracks and distribute the cracks over a larger area of the impermeable lining layer. Further, also according to the invention, there is between the impermeable lining layer and the concrete layer a non-binding sliding layer to facilitate relative movements between the impermeable lining layer and the concrete layer.

Abstract: A conduit repair apparatus includes a carriage configured for movement within a conduit, the carriage including a carrying frame and a drive member. An expansion and brake mechanism is provided on the carriage, and includes at least one radially movable engagement member to apply a radially outwardly directed force. A mechanical force applicator mechanism is provided on the carriage and includes at least one force applicator configured to apply radially outwardly directed pressure and for rotation about an axis of rotation. A power source is connected to the force applicator mechanism to rotatably drive the force applicator about the axis of rotation, whereby the force applicator mechanism can be actuated and simultaneously rotated to thereby apply radially outwardly directed pressure uniformly to an inner wall of a repair sleeve positioned within the conduit.

Abstract: lining apparatus deals with tubular culverts having various cross sections which are not limited to a general cross section of a circular shape but may be constituted by an oval shape, a rectangular shape or another polygonal shape and the like. The lining apparatus inserts a tubular body (lining pipe) formed by spirally winding a strip member having a long sheet-like body at an inner face of an existing tubular culvert such as a sewage pipe, a water supply pipe, a gas pipe or the like. The lining apparatus is constituted mainly by a forming frame in a closed loop shape made flexible by a link mechanism having a series of links. A joint mechanism unit is attached to the forming frame and a peripheral length adjusting mechanism adjusts the peripheral length. An interval maintaining mechanism fixes the peripheral length. Rotary guides are mounted to the forming frame and a rigid regulating frame is brought into contact with the rotary guides and is arranged on the inner side of the forming frame.

Abstract: Apparatus for introducing a lining hose containing curable resin from a main pipeline, e.g. a sewer mains, into a lateral connection, e.g. a service pipe for a property, includes a shield having an arcuate configuration and complementing an inner contour of the main pipeline in an area of an inlet port of the lateral connection. The shield has an outlet opening destined for alignment with the inlet port of the lateral connection and is defined by a cross section which corresponds to a cross section of the inlet port of the lateral connection. A pipe having one end extends from the outlet opening inwardly into the main pipeline, and a conduit is connected to the other end of the pipe and provided for conducting a pressure fluid for everting a lining hose and an associated calibration hose in the lateral connection, with the calibration hose being secured adjacent the outlet opening of the shield.

Abstract: A pipe repair apparatus includes an outer carrier tube, an inner bladder tube within the carrier tube, and a repair sleeve within the bladder tube. The bladder tube and the carrier tube are formed by one unitary tube which is folded back upon itself. A wick extends from the repair sleeve to the rear end of the bladder tube and permits evacuation of gases from the bladder tube when the bladder tube is flattened by a vacuum during insertion of a curable resin into the bladder tube at its forward end. The bladder tube can be inverted out of the carrier tube so as to place the repair sleeve in contact with an area to be repaired within a sewer pipe. This method may also be used to repair the damaged joint between a lateral sewer line and a main sewer line.

Abstract: A construction for a partially-anchoring substrate, particularly a tunnel, comprises a sealing front layer applied to the substrate or an initial concrete layer applied thereto, and a non-deformable second layer applied to the first layer, the surface of the first layer (and, if present, the initial concrete layer) being profiled so that the various layers are locked together and behave as a single layer. The result is better performance with essential less material and work.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible tubular lining material which comprises a seamless plush textile tube and a plastic film layer arranged coaxially and freely around it as well as a method for the production of conduit and/or pipe linings which comprises impregnation of the flexible tubular lining material with a curable resin composition, the introduction of the impregnated material into an inversion tube, the subsequent pressing of this arrangement into the conduit or pipe section to be lined and the curing of the resin under maintenance of applied pressure in the inversion tube.

Abstract: A liner strip for lining an interior surface of a pipe including an extended plastic strip having T-shaped formations with reinforcing fibers integrally extruded in the liner strip for increasing the liner stiffness and tensile strength to resist forces imposed on the liner during installation.

Abstract: A method for lining, rehabilitating, repairing, and rejuvenating pipelines and passageways is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of hauling a tubular liner into a section of pipeline to be repaired, disposing a reforming member within the liner at one end proximate one end of the pipeline, depositing a cement slug in the host pipeline proximate the said one end, and expanding the liner within the pipeline against the inner surface of the said pipeline by urging the reforming member along within the liner under pressure. The outer surface of the liner is provided with a plurality of protrusions in the form of grout anchor hooks which penetrate the cement along the length of the said liner thus ensuring a mechanical bond between said liner and said cement. The cement also adheres to the inner surface of the pipeline and thus a rigid, secure, water impermeable lining construction is achieved.