Soil-displacement drill and method for manufacturing a pile

• US 4,623,025 A
• Filed: 10/11/1984
• Issued: 11/18/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Funde
• Original Assignee: Fundex
• Inventors: Verstraeten, Alexander J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Levy, Stuart S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Werner, David
• Application Number:
  US06/659,790
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 175/19, 175/20, 175/21, 175/22, 175/171, 175/257, 175/385, 175/388, 175/394, 166/285, 405/236, 405/242, 405/253
• US Class Current: 175/21
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 5/62 Compacting the soil at the footing or in or along a casing by forcing cement or like material through tubes
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 10/44 Bits with helical conveying portion, e.g. screw type bits; Augers with leading portion or with detachable parts E21B10/42 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 7/26 Drilling without earth removal, e.g. with self-propelled burrowing devices E21B7/30 takes precedence

Abstract

To the drill pipe connects a head comprising a cylinder-shaped portion and a cone-shaped point. Three spiral ribs are regularly distributed over the head. Each rib has a downwardly-extending rib portion standing on the point and having an outer side making an angle between 0° and 5° with the drill axis and an inner side making with the outer side of the point an angle which is smaller than 90° increased by half the apex of the point, and has a outwardly-extending rib portion standing on the cylinder-shaped head portion and having a top side making an angle between 85° and 95° with the outer side of this head portion. The lowermost edge of the rib portion standing on the point merges into the outermost edge of the other rib portion. The apex of the point lies between 85° and 95°.

Claims

1. A soil-displacement drill comprising:

a drill pipe having a lower end;

a head having an upwardly extending cylindrically-shaped portion and a downwardly directed conically-shaped portion having an apex, said head being mounted on the lower end of said drill pipe;

at least two equally spaced spiral ribs appending from said head, each spiral rib defining a substantially vertical section extending from the apex of said conically-shaped portion to said cylindrically-shaped portion and a substantially horizontally extending radial section extending around a portion of said cylindrically-shaped portion as an extension of said substantially vertical section.

2. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein said ribs are thrice in number equally spaced on said head.

3. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein the apex of said conically shaped portion has an apex angle of between 85°

to 95°

.

4. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein said substantially vertical rib section has a lower edge and said substantially horizontally extending radial section has an outer edge, said lower edge of said substantially vertical rib section merging into the outer edge of said substantially horizontally extending radial section.

5. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein said substantially vertical rib section has an outer side and the apex of said conically-shaped portion has an apex angle, the outer side of said rib making an angle with the conically-shaped portion of at least 175°

less half the apex angle.

6. The soil-displacement drill of claim 5 wherein said angle is between 175°

less half the apex angle and 185°

less half the apex sngle.

7. The soil-displacement drill of claim 6 wherein said substantially vertical rib section has a lower edge and said substantially horizontally extending radial section has an outer edge, said lower edge of said substantially vertical rib section merging into the outer edge of said substantially horizontally extending radial section.

8. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein said substantially vertical rib section has an inner side and the apex of said conically-shaped portion has an apex angle, the inner side of said rib making an angle with the conically-shaped portion of smaller than 10°

increased by half the apex angle.

9. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 including a cylindrically shaped terminus to the conically-shaped portion at the apex, said spiral ribs being fixed to said terminus.

10. The soil-displacement drill of claim 9 including a tool bit on the terminus.

11. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein said substantially horizontally extending radial section has a lower side, said lower side making an angle with a side of said cylindrically-shaped portion of at most 95°

.

12. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein said substantially horizontally extending radial section has an upper side, said upper side making an angle with a side of said cylindrically-shaped portion of between 85°

and 95°

.

13. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 wherein the head is removably mounted on the lower end of the drill pipe.

14. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 including a hardenable liquid material feed line and wherein said head defines an opening therein, said line being positioned within the drill pipe and in communication with the outside of the drill through the opening in the head.

15. The soil-displacement drill of claim 1 including a hardenable liquid material feed line positioned within said drill pipe and wherein the lower end of said drill pipe has transverse openings therein, said feed line being in communication with said openings to communicate with the outside of the lower end of the drill pipe.

16. The soil-displacement drill of claim 15 wherein said head is hollow, said drill pipe being connected to the interior of said conically-shaped portion to define an annular space between the outside of the lower end of the drill pipe and the interior of the cylindrically-shaped portion, said feed line being in communication with said annular space.

17. The soil-displacement drill of claim 14 wherein the apex of said conically-shaped portion defines an opening therein communicating with the outside of said head, said feed line being in communication with said opening.