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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1978
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Atlas Copco Aktiebolag, Nacka, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
299 17 ; 175 67 ;
Abstract
A hard compact material such as rock is broken by directing a high velocity jet of relatively incompressible fluid, such as water, into a hole which is drilled in the material to be broken. The jet is generated by a nozzle in alignment with the hole and is suddenly arrested in the hole in appropriate position with respect to adjacent free surfaces of the material. A jet stagnation pressure is created in the hole of sufficient magnitude and duration or jet repetion rate to break the material towards the free surfaces. Preferably, a secondary nozzle emits fluid for filling partially or wholly the hole prior to generating the high velocity jet by a primary nozzle.