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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2012
Applicant:
Herrenknecht Ag, Schwanau, DE;
Inventor:
Ruediger Koegler, Nordgeorgsfehn, DE;
Assignee:
Herrenknecht AG, Schwanau, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 1/028 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the case of a method for laying pipelines in the ground, a drill-hole is produced along a laying line, from a starting pit to a target pit, by a drilling head at the start of a pipeline, the drilling head being connected to a laying vehicle on the ground surface via a narrow vertical connecting device. The soil dislodged by the drilling head is removed from the drill-hole and conveyed to the surface. The force required for the drilling and laying operation is applied by the laying vehicle and/or by a feed device in the starting pit.