CA2275067A1 - Trench-filling method and device - Google Patents

Trench-filling method and device Download PDF

Info

Publication number
CA2275067A1
CA2275067A1 CA 2275067 CA2275067A CA2275067A1 CA 2275067 A1 CA2275067 A1 CA 2275067A1 CA 2275067 CA2275067 CA 2275067 CA 2275067 A CA2275067 A CA 2275067A CA 2275067 A1 CA2275067 A1 CA 2275067A1
Authority
CA
Canada
Prior art keywords
frame
trench
conveyor
fitted
hydraulic shovel
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Abandoned
Application number
CA 2275067
Other languages
French (fr)
Inventor
Marco Laurini
Alain Lebaigue
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Officine Meccaniche Laurini Lodovico and C SNC
Original Assignee
Officine Meccaniche Laurini Lodovico and C SNC
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Officine Meccaniche Laurini Lodovico and C SNC filed Critical Officine Meccaniche Laurini Lodovico and C SNC
Publication of CA2275067A1 publication Critical patent/CA2275067A1/en
Abandoned legal-status Critical Current

Links

Classifications

    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02FDREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F7/00Equipment for conveying or separating excavated material
    • E02F7/02Conveying equipment mounted on a dredger
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02FDREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F5/00Dredgers or soil-shifting machines for special purposes
    • E02F5/22Dredgers or soil-shifting machines for special purposes for making embankments; for back-filling
    • E02F5/223Dredgers or soil-shifting machines for special purposes for making embankments; for back-filling for back-filling
    • E02F5/226Dredgers or soil-shifting machines for special purposes for making embankments; for back-filling for back-filling with means for processing the soil, e.g. screening belts, separators; Padding machines
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02FDREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F7/00Equipment for conveying or separating excavated material
    • E02F7/06Delivery chutes or screening plants or mixing plants mounted on dredgers or excavators
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02FDREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F9/00Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F3/00 - E02F7/00
    • E02F9/02Travelling-gear, e.g. associated with slewing gears
    • E02F9/028Travelling-gear, e.g. associated with slewing gears with arrangements for levelling the machine

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mining & Mineral Resources (AREA)
  • Civil Engineering (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Structural Engineering (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Combined Means For Separation Of Solids (AREA)
  • Investigation Of Foundation Soil And Reinforcement Of Foundation Soil By Compacting Or Drainage (AREA)
  • Machines For Laying And Maintaining Railways (AREA)

Abstract

A method for filling a trench (14), involving (i) towing with the aid of a hydraulic shovel (1) parallel to trench (14) a frame (3) mounted on wheels or crawlers (4) which supports a loading hopper (12) fitted with a grid (16) in the bottom; (ii) filling the said hopper (12) with filling material with the aid of hydraulic shovel (1); (iii) transferring the filling material by gravity through grid (16) onto a vibrating screen installed beneath hopper (12), and then onto a continuous conveyor (17) installed beneath the vibrating screen on frame (3), transversely to its direction of movement, the vibrating screen and the conveyor being driven by motor systems fitted to the frame; and (iv) tipping the backfill material laterally into trench (14) with the aid of the conveyor.

Description

TRENCH-FILLING METHOD AND DEVICE
This invention relates to a trench-filling method and a device designed to implement the said method.
Pipelines are used to transport fluids such as gas or oil over long distances, and are generally protected by burying them in trenches. These trenches are usually filled with screened backfill, and for this purpose a screening and filling device is generally used which is fitted laterally to a tractor that moves along the trench.
1 o A screening and filling device of this kind usually comprises a hopper designed to receive the materials used for filling, a continuous conveyor installed below the hopper, and a system of vibrating screens fed by the continuous conveyor which fill the trench with successive layers of material with a given particle size. The assembly is integral with a frame which is suspended over the trench to be filled by the carrying arm of a tractor or similar device. A trench can thus be filled with different layers of the same material or materials with different particle sizes, possibly by making a number of runs with the device.
A device of this kind is described in detail, for example, in US patent no. 4 955 756, but numerous variations also exist on the market; the Applicant itself has designed various improvements to a device of this kind, which are described in its European patent application no. 0 709 526.
These devices are wholly satisfactory, but relatively expensive because they are self-propelled.
The frame also presents the drawback that it is suspended from the tractor.
Finally, the hopper must be filled with the backfill material with the aid of a device independent of the filling system.
To remedy these drawbacks, this invention does not use a self-propelled filling system but a screening and filling system towed by a hydraulic shovel of conventional type which also fills the screening device with filling material, in which the hydraulic shovel/screening device assembly can move either along the spoil ridge alongside the trench or along a track laid on the other side of the trench.
The invention therefore relates primarily to a method for filling a trench, specifically with the spoil excavated from the said trench; the said method involves (i) towing parallel to the trench, with the aid of a hydraulic shovel, a frame mounted on wheels or crawlers which supports a filling hopper fitted with a grid at the bottom; (ii) filling the said hopper with filling material with the aid of the hydraulic shovel; (iii) transferring the filling material through the grid by gravity onto a vibrating screen installed under the hopper, then onto a continuous conveyor installed under the vibrating screen on the frame, transversely to its direction of movement, the vibrating screen and the conveyor being driven by motor systems fitted to the frame; and (iv) tipping the filling material laterally into the trench with the aid of the conveyor.
The invention also relates to a device suitable for towing destined to be used in the method described above, which screens filling material and tips it into a trench, the said device being characterised in that it comprises:
- a frame mounted on wheels or crawlers and fitted with at least one coupling connecting it to a hydraulic shovel suitable to tow it - a filling hopper for backfill material, fitted with a grid in the bottom, mounted on the said frame - a vibrating screen below the said grid - a continuous conveyor below the said vibrating screen, one end of which said conveyor projects laterally from the said frame - and systems fitted to the said frame which drive the vibrating screen and conveyor.
1 o The coupling that connects the frame to the hydraulic shovel can be a simple tow-bar jointed at one end to the frame and at the other end to the hydraulic shovel.
The hopper is preferably mounted so that it swivels in relation to the frame, at least one cylinder being fitted to the frame to straighten the hopper by swivelling it in relation to the frame, in order to discharge the largest parts of the filling material which do not pass through the grid.
The grid can be constituted by simple parallel bars, which could be installed, for example, parallel to the direction of movement of the device.
The conveyor is preferably installed transversely to the direction of movement of the frame under the action of the hydraulic shovel with which it is integral. This conveyor can advantageously traverse under the action of a dual-action cylinder, so that it can project as required from either the left- or the right-hand side of the device. In addition, it is driven by at least one reversing motor, such as a hydraulic motor, so that it can tip the filling material to the right or left of the device.
Finally, the invention relates to a trench-filling assembly characterised in that it comprises a hydraulic shovel and a device for screening and tipping filling material of the type described above, the said device being connected to the hydraulic shovel by a coupling such as a tow-bar, so that it can be towed by the shovel.
The frame of the screening device will preferably be fitted at both ends with systems that allow it to be coupled to the hydraulic shovel, so that it can be towed from either end.
Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will appear more clearly from the following detailed description of a form of embodiment thereof. The said description will refer to the annexed schematic drawings in which:
~ Figure 1 is a lateral elevation of an assembly constituted by a hydraulic shovel and a screening and filling device towed by the said shovel, the said assembly being shown in a position in which the shovel is moving down a slope ~ Figure 2 is a similar view to figure 1, shown in a position in which the shovel is moving uphill ~ Figure 3 is a cutaway view from above of the screening and filling device towed by the hydraulic shovel ~ Figure 4 shows the position of the said screening and filling device on uneven ground, in a lateral position in relation to the trench to be filled In these drawings, the self-propelled hydraulic shovel is marked 1, while the screening and filling device towed by the said shovel is marked 2.
Shovel 1 can be of any known type.
Device 2 comprises a frame 3, shown here mounted on crawlers 4, although it could equally well be mounted on wheels; a tow-bar 8 is jointed at one end by levers 5 and 6 to the said frame 3, and at the other end to the frame of shovel 1.
Lever 6 is attached to the stem of a cylinder 7 fitted to frame 3 of the screening and filling device.
The said frame 3 is connected to structure 9, fitted with crawlers 4, by a system of levers such as 10 which are activated by a cylinder 11, so that they can maintain the frame in the horizontal position whatever the slope of the terrain on which crawlers 4 rest.
A hopper 12, one end of which, adjacent to shovel 1, is fitted so that it swivels in relation to frame 3 under the action of cylinders 13, receives the raw materials destined to fill trench 14 from shovel 1 (see figure 4), for example in order to bury a pipe 15 which has been laid in the said trench.
The filling materials are usually constituted by backfill from trench 4, and it is advisable to screen them before using them to fill the trench. For this purpose, hopper 12 comprises a base constituted by a grid 16, here constituted by parallel bars arranged longitudinally which are designed to trap excessively large spoil, which can subsequently be discharged by 2o raising the hopper (see figure 2).
The material which passes through the grid falls onto a vibrating screen 19 installed below the grid, then onto a continuous conveyor 17 which is fitted to frame 3 beneath the vibrating screen and installed transversely to the direction of movement of the said frame.
The said conveyor 17 projects laterally from the frame above trench 14, and tips the backfill material into it. Conveyor 17 is driven by two reversing hydraulic motors fitted to frame 3. As described above, it can also be moved transversely with the aid of a double-action cylinder so as to project laterally from either side of the frame, so that the backfill material can be tipped either to the left or the right of the said frame.
The various cylinders in the screening and filling device and the motors that drive conveyor 17 and the vibrating screen are powered and activated by a hydraulic unit 18 fitted to frame 3. All these parts are controlled from a distance by a remote control in the cab of the hydraulic shovel, or 1 o activated by an operator at the control panel.
The invention consequently offers a simple, inexpensive means of filling trenches, because the trench-filling device is not self-propelled but towed by a hydraulic shovel, which also serves to feed the filling device with backfill material.
Both ends of frame 3 are more or less identical, so that screening device 2 can be coupled to hydraulic shovel 1 by either of the said ends in order to be towed by it.
As will be seen from figure 4, the crawlers of the screening and filling device can adapt to very uneven terrain, and advance, for example, on 2o spoil ridge 20 of trench 14 or on a track 21 laid on the other side of the said trench.
As will also be seen from figures 1 and 2, the hydraulic shovel/screening and filling device assembly is able to move up or down relatively steep slopes, with an inclination of up to 25 degrees.

Claims (8)

1) Method for filling a trench (14), specifically with backfill material excavated from the same trench, which said method involves (i) towing with the aid of a hydraulic shovel (1) parallel to trench (14) a frame (3) mounted on wheels or crawlers (4) which supports a loading hopper (12) fitted with a grid (16) in the bottom; (ii) filling the said hopper (12) with filling material with the aid of hydraulic shovel (1); (iii) transferring the filling material by gravity through grid (16) onto a vibrating screen installed beneath hopper (12), and then onto a continuous conveyor (17) installed beneath the vibrating screen on frame (3), transversely to its direction of movement, the vibrating screen and the conveyor being driven by motor systems fitted to the frame; and (iv) tipping the backfill material laterally into trench (14) with the aid of the conveyor.
2) Device suitable to be towed, designed for screening filling material and tipping it into a trench (14), and destined to be used in the method according to claim 1, the said device being characterised in that it comprises:
~ a frame (3) mounted on wheels or crawlers (4) and equipped with at least one coupling (8) which connects it to a hydraulic shovel suitable to tow it ~ a filling material loading hopper (12) on the said frame, the said hopper being fitted with a grid (16) at the bottom ~ a vibrating screen (19) below grid (16) ~ a continuous conveyor (17) below the said vibrating screen, one end of which conveyor projects laterally from frame (3) ~ and systems designed to drive the said vibrating screen and conveyor (17), which said systems are fitted to the frame.
3) Device as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that conveyor (17) can traverse under the action of a dual-action cylinder, so that it can project from either side of frame (3).
4) Device as claimed in claim 3, characterised in that conveyor (17) is driven by a reversing motor.
5) Device as claimed in any of claims 2 to 4, characterised in that the coupling which connects the frame to the hydraulic shovel is a tow-bar (8) jointed to frame (3), the position of which said tow-bar can be adjusted with the aid of control systems (5, 6, 7) such as levers and cylinders.
6) Device as claimed in any of claims 2 to 5, characterised in that the frame is fitted at both ends with a system which makes it integral with a coupling (8) that connects it to the hydraulic shovel.
7) Device as claimed in any of claims 2 to 6, characterised in that the hopper (12) is fitted to swivel in relation to frame (3) under the action of control systems such as at least one cylinder.
8) Unit designed to fill a trench (14), characterised in that it comprises a hydraulic shovel (1) and a screening and backfill tipping device (2) as claimed in any of claims 2 to 7, the said device (2) being coupled to the hydraulic shovel by means of a connector such as a tow-bar (8), so that it can be towed by shovel (1).
CA 2275067 1998-06-19 1999-06-17 Trench-filling method and device Abandoned CA2275067A1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
FR9807770 1998-06-19
FR9807770A FR2780079B1 (en) 1998-06-19 1998-06-19 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BACKFILLING A TRENCH

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
CA2275067A1 true CA2275067A1 (en) 1999-12-19

Family

ID=9527609

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
CA 2275067 Abandoned CA2275067A1 (en) 1998-06-19 1999-06-17 Trench-filling method and device

Country Status (7)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0965697B1 (en)
AU (1) AU747651B2 (en)
CA (1) CA2275067A1 (en)
DE (1) DE69912026T2 (en)
ES (1) ES2209353T3 (en)
FR (1) FR2780079B1 (en)
PT (1) PT965697E (en)

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6915972B2 (en) 2002-09-17 2005-07-12 Robert R. Rossi, Jr. Mobile jaw crusher assembly
CN114922242A (en) * 2022-05-26 2022-08-19 罗霄 Foundation landfill device for construction

Families Citing this family (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
AU2003272447B2 (en) * 2002-09-17 2007-11-29 Robert Richard Rossi Jr. Mobile impact crusher assembly
US6871807B2 (en) 2002-09-17 2005-03-29 Robert R. Rossi, Jr. Mobile impact crusher assembly
GB2412936B (en) * 2002-11-28 2006-06-21 Mitchell Australasia Pty Ltd Trench forming and preparing apparatus
AU2003269608B2 (en) * 2002-11-28 2007-08-02 Mitchell Australasia Pty Ltd. Trench forming and preparing apparatus
AU2002952972A0 (en) * 2002-11-28 2002-12-12 Mitchell Australasia Pty Ltd Trench forming and preparing apparatus
GB2405394A (en) * 2003-08-29 2005-03-02 Kevin Gates A material handling apparatus comprising a conveyor
DE102018201077B3 (en) 2018-01-24 2019-05-16 HGS Hirschfelder Greifer- und Stahlbau GmbH Device for profile-controlled drilling and filling of pipe and cable trenches

Family Cites Families (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1347882A (en) * 1962-11-23 1964-01-04 Road construction method and device for its implementation
US3701422A (en) * 1970-05-21 1972-10-31 Zurn Eng Vehicle mounted earth separating and conveying system
US4322178A (en) * 1980-02-29 1982-03-30 Lee Billy R Pavement patching apparatus
DE3510597C2 (en) * 1985-03-23 1995-11-30 Kapuschinski Hannes J Screening device
US4861461A (en) * 1987-06-08 1989-08-29 Utterback Eugene C Pipeline padding machine and method
DE3809670A1 (en) * 1988-03-23 1989-10-12 Juergen Posch DEVICE FOR SHREDDING MATERIAL, ESPECIALLY STONE, AND CONSTRUCTION AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL
DE3837361C1 (en) * 1988-11-03 1990-04-26 Ibag - M & F Gesellschaft Fuer Aufbereitungs- Und Foerdertechnik Mbh, 6730 Neustadt, De
FR2726304B1 (en) * 1994-10-31 1997-01-17 Somico IMPROVEMENTS IN FILLING DEVICES OF A TRENCH, IN PARTICULAR OF A TRENCH IN WHICH A FLUID CONVEYOR IS HOSTED
DE29723701U1 (en) * 1996-05-03 1999-07-15 Douglas, Patrick Joseph, Castletown, Isle of Man Self-propelled material processing device

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6915972B2 (en) 2002-09-17 2005-07-12 Robert R. Rossi, Jr. Mobile jaw crusher assembly
CN114922242A (en) * 2022-05-26 2022-08-19 罗霄 Foundation landfill device for construction

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
ES2209353T3 (en) 2004-06-16
FR2780079A1 (en) 1999-12-24
EP0965697B1 (en) 2003-10-15
EP0965697A1 (en) 1999-12-22
AU3574599A (en) 2000-01-06
DE69912026D1 (en) 2003-11-20
FR2780079B1 (en) 2000-09-08
DE69912026T2 (en) 2004-07-15
AU747651B2 (en) 2002-05-16
PT965697E (en) 2004-03-31

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US4912862A (en) Backfill machine
EP0308404B2 (en) Road paver-finisher with a combination of axles with steering wheels and crawler units
US8157477B2 (en) Trenching and drain installation system and method
FI3495566T3 (en) Cable laying device and method
US5421108A (en) High volume pipe padding machine
US20050117973A1 (en) Method and system for preparing a trench and laying pipe in a trench
EP0864698B1 (en) Self-loading mobile crusher system
US5178484A (en) Apparatus to prepare a road surface
CA2275067A1 (en) Trench-filling method and device
US4913581A (en) Narrow trench tamper
EA002996B1 (en) Method for padding ground below a dust using excavated soil, device for realizing the same, equipment for compacting soil below a dust and soil-compacting mechanism
US7500804B2 (en) Compaction wheel system and method
US6098812A (en) Mobile screening apparatus and method
CN1086010C (en) Pipeline construction machinery for digging track sub-grade material
US4343389A (en) Mobile conveyor
US6622403B2 (en) Backfill and grading apparatus
CN106304918B (en) Towed Full automatic sugarcane planter
US6273637B1 (en) Dual wheel trench compactor
US5409298A (en) Open cut mining apparatus
US2858626A (en) Excavating apparatus
EP0795060B1 (en) Apparatus for compacting granular material
MXPA99005674A (en) Method and device for filling zan
US3345764A (en) Two-way terracing device
AU672025B2 (en) Mining apparatus
CA1255111A (en) Trenching method and apparatus

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
EEER Examination request
FZDE Dead