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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1996
Landris T Lee, Jr, Vicksburg, MS (US);
Daniel A Leavell, Vicksburg, MS (US);
Philip G Malone, Vicksburg, MS (US);
Other;
Abstract
The invention relates to a grout injection device and method for depositing a liquid grouting material in a hole formed by a cone penetrometer. The device is a modular design with a sliding sleeve member that replaces older grouting injection devices with exit port opening actuated by fluidic pressures with an improved more reliable mechanical design that is actuated by withdrawal of the cone penetrometer pipe string by friction between the sliding sleeve and the soil wall formed by the cone penetrometer. The invention solves the problem of pressure losses that can occur with prior art devices resulting in partially opened grout exit ports. The instant invention's design also achieves proper channeling of the grout flowing out of the device's grout exit ports for even distribution of grout filling the hole. This is achieved by the invention's boss structures mounted on an adapter unit of the device. The inventions method allows the cone penetrometer system to perform subsurface surveys and subsequent grouting events in a single penetrometer push event without the need for first retrieving the survey instrumentation and then going back into the hole with a stand-alone grouting device.