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

• Current Assignee: Paul Schmidt
• Original Assignee: Paul Schmidt
• Inventors: Hupertz, Herbert, Hesse, Alfons
• Primary Examiner(s): Eley, Timothy V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FRIDIE JR, WILLMON
• Application Number:
  US07/550,210
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 173/121, 173/133, 173/139, 173/128, 173/119, 279/19
• US Class Current: 173/133
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 4/145 of the self propelled-type, e.g. with a reverse mode to retract the device from the hole
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/17042 Lost motion

Abstract

In a ram boring machine that has a striking piston displaceable in a tubular housing, a displaceably mounted chisel passing through a housing tip has a collar by which it is guided in a bore in the housing that has a front and a rear stop limiting the stroke of the chisel, and has a shank that projects into the working chamber of the striking piston, rebounding blows are avoided by making the length of projection of the shank is smaller than the maximum stroke of the collar between the stops.

Claims

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.

2. A ram boring machine according to claim 1 wherein the housing bore is bounded by said internal collar and the end face of a housing tip screwed into the housing.