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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2019
Bauer Spezialtiefbau Gmbh, Schrobenhausen, DE;
Thomas Domanski, Petaling Jaya, MY;
Karl Van Der Waal, Shah Alam, MY;
BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, Schrobenhausen, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a trench cutter and a method for producing a cut trench in the soil having a cutter frame, at least one pair of cutting wheels which are supported and driven in a rotatable manner on a lower end of the cutter frame, wherein each cutting wheel has a plurality of cutting teeth along its outer circumference, and a supply and/or discharge means for supplying or discharging a cutting liquid to or from the cut trench in the region of the cutting wheels. According to the invention provision is made in that spaced from the supply and/or discharge means a cleaning device is provided for cleaning the cutting wheels during the cutting operation with a cleaning fluid and in that the cleaning device has a plurality of cleaning nozzles which are directed onto the outer circumference of at least one cutting wheel and designed to inject the cleaning fluid to loosen adhering soil material.