Soil displacement auger head for installing piles in the soil

• US 5,722,498 A
• Filed: 06/17/1996
• Issued: 03/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HARENINVEST
• Original Assignee: HARENINVEST
• Inventors: Cortvrindt, Guy Adolf August, Van Impe, William Frans
• Primary Examiner(s): Bagnell, David J.
• Application Number:
  US08/637,747
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 175/394, 405/232, 405/233, 405/240, 405/241
• US Class Current: 175/394
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 5/36 making without use of mouldpipes or other moulds
• 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

Soil displacement auger head for installing piles in the soil, having a tip, a displacement body having at least over a lower portion a core diameter increasing in diameter in a direction away from the tip, and at least one screw flange extending at least over the lower portion of the displacement body. To obtain a more efficient displacement, the pitch of the screw flange increases and the core diameter of the displacement body increases preferably discontinuously via a number of transition slopes.

Claims

1. A soil displacement auger head for installing piles in the soil, comprising:

a tip;

a displacement body having at least over a lower portion a core diameter increasing in diameter in a direction away from said tip; and

at least one screw flange extending at least over said lower portion of the displacement body;

wherein said screw flange has a pitch which increases at least over said lower portion of the displacement body in the direction away from said tip.

2. The auger head according to claim 1, wherein the core diameter of the lower portion of the displacement body increases discontinuously according to said screw flange via a predetermined number of transition slopes.

3. The auger head according to claim 2, wherein the pitch of said screw flange increases in between two successive diameter transitions, each time in such a way that, during screwing in, substantially a same volume of soil is squeezed and transported before each transition slope of the displacement body.

4. The auger head according to claim 2, wherein the increase of said pitch is defined on the basis of the following relation:

##EQU3## wherein;

.sub. o is the pitch at the first transition slope (17);

1_i is the pitch at the i÷

1^st transition slope (17);

n is the rotational speed at which the auger head (1) is to be turned;

v is the vertical penetration speed of the auger head (1) in the soil;

d_m is the maximum core diameter of the displacement body (14);

d_o is the minimum core diameter of the displacement body (14); and

d_i is the core diameter before the i+1^st transition slope.

5. The auger head according to claim 2, wherein said transition slopes form an angle α

comprised between 20 and 40 degrees, preferably between 25 and 35 degrees and in particular an angle α

of about 30 degrees with a tangent plane to the surface of the displacement body after the respective transition slope.

6. The auger head according to claim 2, wherein at said transition slopes the core diameter of the displacement body increases with at least 2 cm, preferably with 3 cm to 15 cm and in particular with 4 cm to 10 cm.

7. The auger head according to claim 2, wherein the displacement body has a substantially cylindrical surface between two successive transition slopes.

8. The auger head according to claim 2, wherein said transition slopes on the lower portion of the displacement body are directed downwards each under a predetermined angle γ

with respect to the longitudinal direction of the auger head, said predetermined angle γ

being smaller as the core diameter before the concerned transition slope is larger.

9. The auger head according to claim 8, wherein the transition slope which is the closest to said tip forms an angle γ

of 0 to 20 degrees and preferably of 5 to 10 degrees with the longitudinal direction of the auger head while the transition slope which is the farthest removed from said tip forms an angle γ

of 0 to 5 degrees with this longitudinal direction.

10. The auger head according to claim 1, wherein said screw flange has a substantially constant outer diameter at least over the lower portion of the displacement body.

11. The auger head according to claim 1, wherein said displacement body has over an upper portion a core diameter which decreases in the direction away from said tip, this upper portion comprising at least two screw flange parts each extending over at least half of the circumference of the displacement body, at the most over the perimeter of this displacement body, and overlapping each other partially and having a screw direction opposite to the screw direction of the screw flange on the lower portion of the displacement body.

12. The auger head according to claim 11, wherein said screw flange parts extend over 200 to 250 degrees of the circumference of the displacement body, in particular over about 225 degrees of this circumference, and overlap each other over 35 to 55 degrees of this circumference, in particular over about 45 degrees.

13. The auger head according to claim 11, wherein said upper portion of the displacement body has a core diameter which decreases discontinuously via a predetermined number of transition slopes.

14. The auger head according to claim 1, wherein said displacement body has an upper portion comprising a series of fins disposed according to a screw direction which is opposite to the screw direction of the screw flange on the lower portion of the displacement body and extending preferably over about one turn around the circumference of the displacement body, which fins overlap each other partially, an inclined displacement surface being arranged underneath each of these fins for displacing the soil radially.

15. The auger head according to claim 14, wherein from the displacement surface which is situated underneath the fin, the farthest removed from the tip, each of said displacement surfaces extend further radially, so that the displacement surface, situated underneath the fin and the closest to the tip 12, extends substantially up to the maximum core diameter of the displacement body.

16. The auger head according to claim 1, wherein between said tip and the displacement body the auger head has from this tip an increasing core diameter which then decreases discontinuously, an opening of a concrete duct through the auger head, debouching to the outside at this discontinuous decrease.

17. A soil displacement auger had for installing piles in the soil, comprising:

a tip;

a displacement body having at least over a lower portion a core diameter increasing in a direction away from said tip; and

at least one screw flange extending at least over said lower portion of the displacement body;

wherein said screw flange has a pitch which increases at least over said lower portion of the displacement body in the direction away from said tip and the core diameter of the lower portion of the displacement body increases discontinuously according to said screw flange via a predetermined number of transition slopes.

18. A soil displacement auger had for installing piles in the soil, comprising:

a tip;

a displacement body having at least over a lower portion a core diameter increasing in a direction away from said tip; and

at least one screw flange extending at least over said lower portion of the displacement body;

wherein said screw flange has a pitch which increases at least over said lower portion of the displacement body in the direction away from said tip and said displacement body has over an upper portion a core diameter which decreases in the direction away from said tip, this upper portion comprising at least two screw flange parts each extending over at least half of the circumference of the displacement body, at the most over the perimeter of this displacement body, and overlapping each other partially and having a screw direction opposite to the screw direction of the screw flange on the lower portion of the displacement body.