Kabushiki Kaisha Iseki Kaihatsu Koki

Tokyo Gas Company Limited

Makoto Kajiyama

Mitsutoshi Hayashi

Minoru Kurashina

Akitaka Fujita

Hideki Uno

Toshio Akesaka

Shingo Nagashima

Shingo Nagashina

A conduit comprised of double-wall pipes A is laid in the ground by the pipe-jacking method. Each of double-wall pipes A comprises inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2 and is provided with sheath pipe 4 between inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2 and with check valve 7. Winch 11 is mounted in tunneling machine 6. Wire 12 wound on winch 11 is inserted into sheath pipe 4 and the forward end of wire 12 is sent to start vertical shaft C through sheath pipe 4, and connected with cleaning member 24, injecting member F, and supply pipe 14. Cleaning member 21, injecting member F, and supply pipe 14 are moved in sheath pipes 4 by driving winch 7. When injecting member F is opposed to check valve 7, packing means 19, 20 are inflated to be brought into contact with the inside of sheath pipe 4 by which injecting member F is fixed to sheath pipe 4. Lubricant or back-filling material is sent to a space between packing means in sheath pipe 3, and injected through check valve 7 into space 9 between the outside of outer pipe 2 and the ground.

Method for injecting lubricant or back-filling material into a space

When laying a conduit comprised of double-wall pipes A, each of which comprises inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2, the smooth propulsion of double-wall pipes is possible by injecting lubricant into a space between the outside of double-wall pipes and the ground on a scheduled line along which conduit B to be laid is divided into section, each having a given length based upon the distance over which the effect of the lubricant can be maintained. Lubricant is injected from the double-wall pipes which is to be positioned at the heads in the respective sections 1 to n of supply pipes 3 which are provided between inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2 of double-wall pipe A. Supply pipes of double-wall pipe A which has been propelled are connected with supply pipes of a new double-wall pipe, wherein the number of supply pipes connected with each other is determined for the respective sections. Lubricant is supplied from the upstream side and from the downstream side of the propelling direction to double-wall pipes. After conduit B has been laid, back-filling material as a filler is supplied to supply pipes 3 so that a space formed between the outside of double-wall pipes 23 and the ground is filled with filler. Sheath pipes 23 are provided between inner pipes 1 and outer pipes 2. After conduit B has been laid, back-filling material, as inside-filling material, is supplied to sheath pipes 23 so that a space between the outside of double-wall pipes and the ground is filled with inside-filling material.

Method for injecting lubricant and filler in the pipe-jacking method

A shield tunnelling machine is provided that includes a cylindrical shield body; a rotary cutter head disposed on a front end of the shield body and provided with a face plate having one or a plurality of slits extending in the radial direction; and intermediate support member for supporting a plurality of cutter bits respectively having forward bit portions and backward bit portions in each of the slits; a support structure for supporting the intermediate support member swingably around an axis extending in the radial direction; a member for movably guiding the support structure in the axial direction of the shield body; and a cylinder device and a piston for moving the support stucture in the axial direction of the shield body to move the cutter bits toward and away from the front face of the face plate, the face plate and the guide member sharing the excavation force exerted against the cutter bits.

Shield tunnelling machine

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Zama, Japan

Makoto Kajiyama