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Ram boring machine

  • US 5,095,998 A
  • Filed: 07/06/1990
  • Issued: 03/17/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A ram boring machine for excavation-less production of earth channels, having a housing tip threaded into a tubular housing, a striking piston displaceable in the tubular housing and actable on a displaceable chisel that passes through the housing tip and has a collar by which it reciprocates and is guided in a bore of said housing that has a fixed front and a fixed rear stop to limit the stroke of the chisel, said chisel having a shank that projects into the working chamber of the striking piston, wherein the length of projection of the shank is smaller than the maximum stroke of the collar between the stops, the housing having an internal collar arranged so as to separate the working chamber from the chisel collar and form the fixed rear stop of the chisel collar, the internal collar having a passage through which the shank of the chisel is movable, the striking piston being actable on the internal collar so as to advance the housing, the housing tip having a recess in which a compression spring is arranged so as to hold the chisel collar against the internal collar.

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