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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1991
Frank Calandra, Jr, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
John C Stankus, Canonsburg, PA (US);
Paul A Yacisin, Patton, PA (US);
Jennmar Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A tapered camming plug positioned within an expansion shell is threaded onto an upper end portion of an elongated bolt advanced behind a resin cartridge system into a bore hole drilled in a rock formation. A bearing plate is carried on the opposite end of the bolt and abuts the rock formation surrounding the bore hole. The cartridge is ruptured by upward thrust and rotation of the bolt to release the resin components for mixing. The mixed resin flows downwardly in the bore hole into surrounding relation with the camming plug and expansion shell. The expansion shell includes a plurality of expansion fingers each formed integral at one end portion with a ring end portion of the shell and extending upwardly to a free end portion for outward expansion into engagement with the wall of the bore hole as the camming plug advances downwardly on the bolt after the resin is mixed. The shell ring end portion has a circular opening for receiving the bolt and an outer, non-circular surface forming a wall having areas of non-uniform thickness to increase the area of the annulus between the ring end portion and the wall of the bore hole. The increased area around the ring end portion facilitates the insertion of the expansion shell assembly into the resin by permitting the resin to flow past the shell and the ring end portion and bond the expansion shell and a portion of the bolt to the rock formation within the bore hole.