Sediment coring apparatus for preventing loss and disturbance of sample in core

• US 9,322,265 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
• Original Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
• Inventors: Kong, Gee Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R
• Application Number:
  US13/916,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20140158434A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,048 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 25/18 the core receiver being specially adapted for operation under water
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 49/025 of underwater soil, e.g. with grab devices

Abstract

Provided is a coring apparatus for collecting marine sediments, and more particularly, to a coring apparatus having a core filled with marine sediments when the coring apparatus is inserted into a seabed.

Claims

1. A sediment coring apparatus for preventing a loss and a disturbance of samples in a core, comprising:

a core filled with marine sediments;

an external tube inserted into a seabed for performing a coring operation;

the core which is disposed in the external tube and has the marine sediments filled from a bottom portion thereof by being inserted into the seabed at the same time when the external tube is inserted into the seabed;

a stopper which is disposed to be adhered to a top portion of the core to seal the top portion of the core;

a screw which is disposed over the core and rotates when the external tube and the core inserted into the seabed move upward in the state in which the external tube and the core contact seawater when the external tube and the core are pulled up; and

a stopper moving part having a stopper moving shaft which connects the screw with the stopper to move the stopper toward the core in response to the rotation of the screw when the external tube and the core are pulled up so as to seal the top portion of the core.

2. The sediment coring apparatus of claim 1, wherein when the external tube and the core descend toward the seabed for performing the coring operation, the screw rotates and when the external tube and the core move upwardly, the screw rotates in an opposite direction to the rotation direction of the screw to make the external tube and the core more rapidly move toward the seabed.

3. The sediment coring apparatus of claim 1, wherein the stopper moving shaft has a helical shape for helical coupling so as to move at the time of the rotation and when the external tube and the core descend and the screw rotates, the stopper moving shaft does not move.

4. The sediment coring apparatus of claim 2, wherein the stopper moving shaft has a helical shape for helical coupling so as to move at the time of the rotation and when the external tube and the core descend and the screw rotates, the stopper moving shaft does not move.