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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Franz-Josef Puttmann, Lennestadt, DE;
Assignee:
Tracto-Technik Paul Schimdt Spezialmaschinen, Lennestadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
175 67 ; 175417 ;
Abstract
In a percussion boring machine for producing or widening earth boreholes, the housing is equipped with nozzles and houses a striking piston caused to reciprocate axially by means of compressed air and means of generating pressure which supplies the nozzles with a flushing, cutting, lubricating and/or steering liquid. Since the liquid pressure required for the excavation of the ground surrounding the machine and/or for causing the machine to travel on a curved path is generated in the machine itself, the machine only needs to be supplied through a supply line with a liquid at a slightly raised pressure.