CN103987900A - Trench cutting apparatus and method - Google Patents
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Abstract
A trench cutting apparatus comprises a main body portion, ground contacting conveying means on which the body portion is mounted and by which the apparatus can traverse the ground and at least one soil cutting device operable to cut a trench wherein the attitude of the soil cutting device is adjustable between a first use configuration configured for cutting a linear trench portion and a second use position configured for cutting a curved trench portion, said second use position being selected to minimise undercutting of a trench wall as said curved trench portion is formed.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to for cut on ground groove and more particularly (but not exclusively) cut equipment and the method for groove for the water body bed body such as lakebed or sea bed.Specifically, the present invention relates to equipment and the method that Avoids or reduces is cut ditch geosynclinal concave in the time carrying out the turning of groove.
Background technology
In ground, form groove and be and bury (such as gas pipeline and water pipe and cable and optic telecommunications cables) the well-known requirement of government utility feeding mechanism and it is needed typically.Under water in environment, cut groove that embedded pipe and cable are desired typically, and require special structure or the adaptive equipment for situation (such as the character of sea bed) is constructed under water.At this, " sea bed " is used in reference to sea or lake or the bed body in river even, unless context separately has requirement.
Well known in the prior art for the various device that builds groove.These equipment can comprise the soil cutting device of ploughing plough, injecting type equipment (for underwater use) and chain type cutter form that is that forms desirable groove.Typically, soil cutting device is installed on vehicle, this vehicle or under himself power or by external device (ED) on ground (for example, sea bed) upper mobile.For example, ditch groove cutting vehicle can be by towing vehicle or dilatory by the ship on the water surface.In general, preferably, ditch groove cutting vehicle is self-powered.Typically, ditch groove cutting vehicle is arranged on joint connecting ring rail (endless articulated track).
It is when the conduit of groove is carried out turning, especially had a tight-turning turning that the groove of this type forms problem that vehicle runs into.In the case, soil cutting device (more specifically in the situation that soil cutting device is chain type cutter or injecting type device) may carry out recessed cutting to the trench wall on the outside of the sweep of groove.This has the unsettled impact of the trench wall of making.In addition, such as the soil cutting device of chain type cutter may with respect to trench wall be wedging or clamp-on.
Summary of the invention
The present invention tries hard to improve or overcome above problem.Specifically, the present invention tries hard to provide the method for groove cutting apparatus and ditch groove cutting, and this equipment and method reduce, minimize or avoid to carry out while turning the recessed of this trench wall cut in groove.The wall of this groove be formed there is desirable angle, be most preferably substantially vertical.
According to a first aspect of the invention, provide groove cutting apparatus, this groove cutting apparatus comprises: main part; Multiple ground contact conveyers, this body part is installed on these ground contact conveyers, and this equipment can cross ground by these ground contact conveyers; And at least one soil cutting device, this at least one soil cutting device is to operate to cut groove, wherein the attitude of this soil cutting device is first to use configuration and be configured to cut between the second use location of bent groove part adjustable what be configured to cut linearity channel portions, and described the second use location is selected in the time of the described bent groove part of formation and minimizes the recessed of trench wall cut.
In multiple preferred embodiments, this soil cutting device is chain type cutter or injecting type cutter.
In multiple preferred embodiments, this equipment further comprises control device, and wherein the attitude of this soil cutting device is adjustable under the control of this control device.
In some preferred embodiments, the attitude of this soil cutting device is automatically to be adjusted according to the desired radius of curvature of groove forming by this control device.
In some preferred embodiments, this soil cutting device is to comprise the chain type cutter of installing at the mobile multiple soil cutting teeth of loop, and in operating position, this chain type cutter has: lower end, at this lower end, these soil cutting tooth cutting soil are to form this groove; And upper end, at this upper end, these teeth and soil are isolated, described lower end has outer rim and the inner edge of the retive boundary of this groove that restriction is cutting accordingly, and wherein the adjustment of the attitude to this chain type cutter is like this to make at least a portion of described outer rim towards the bending direction displacement of this groove.
In these embodiments preferably, the attitude of this chain type cutter is by making this chain type cutter rotate to adjust around nominal level axis.Described horizontal axis is preferably parallel to the direction of motion of groove cutting axis at any given time.
In other preferred embodiments, this soil cutting device is injecting type cutter, and in operating position, this injecting type cutter has: Part I, and discharge cutting fluid from this Part I along position and form this groove with cutting soil; And Part II, this Part II is communicated with in fluid with cutting fluid supply source, and wherein the adjustment of the attitude to this injecting type cutter makes the described position of this cutting fluid towards the bending direction displacement of this groove.
In these other embodiment, preferably, the attitude of this injecting type cutter is by making this injecting type cutter rotate to adjust around nominal level axis.Described horizontal axis is preferably parallel to the direction of motion of groove cutting axis at any given time.
In multiple preferred embodiments, this equipment further comprises multiple actuators, these actuators are coupled on this soil cutting device, and are configured to by making this soil cutting device rotate to adjust the attitude of this soil cutting device around described horizontal axis.
Preferably, the variation in the attitude of this soil cutting device is to realize by the variation in the attitude of body part, and the attitude of this soil cutting device and this body part maintain in fixed relationship.
Preferably, the attitude of this body part is by adjusting one or two adjustable interval with respect to this body part in these ground contact conveyers.
According to a second aspect of the invention, provide the method cutting groove, the method comprises: groove cutting apparatus is provided, and this groove cutting apparatus has adjustable soil cutting device between the first attitude and the second attitude; And cutting before the sweep of this groove, the attitude of this soil cutting device is adjusted to following attitude, under this attitude, the recessed of trench wall minimizing described sweep cut.
In multiple preferred embodiments of a second aspect of the present invention, the attitude of this soil cutting device is to adjust according to the radius of curvature of the groove forming.
Preferably, the adjustment of the attitude to this soil cutting device comprises this soil cutting device is rotated around nominal level axis.Described horizontal axis is preferably at least roughly parallel to the direction of motion of groove cutting axis at any given time.
Preferably, this groove cutting apparatus comprises main part, and this soil cutting device is attached in this main part, and adjustment in the attitude of this soil cutting device comprises the attitude of adjusting this main part.
In multiple especially preferred embodiment, this groove cutting apparatus is the equipment as defined in a first aspect of the present invention.
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Only further describe various embodiments of the present invention with way of example with reference to accompanying drawing hereinafter, in the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is the expression of typical groove cutting apparatus;
The schematically illustrated groove of Fig. 2 a and according to the plan view of the cutting tip of the groove cutting apparatus of prior art, this figure shows trench wall to carry out recessed possibility of cutting;
Fig. 2 b is similar to Fig. 2 a, and shows recessed the reducing of cutting to trench wall of realizing by equipment of the present invention and method;
Fig. 3 a is the profile view of the groove cutting device seen from front, and this figure show can occur by the ditch groove cutting arrangement of prior art trench wall is carried out to recessed degree of cutting;
Fig. 3 b is similar to Fig. 3 a, and the profile of groove cutting device in the time that its attitude is adjusted according to the present invention is shown, and shows realized recessed the reducing in degree that cut;
Fig. 4 a is the plan view according to typical groove cutting device of the present invention;
Fig. 4 b is the lateral view of the groove cutting device of Fig. 4 a; And
Fig. 4 c is the phantom drawing of the groove cutting device of Fig. 4 a and Fig. 4 b.
Detailed description of the invention
Referring now to accompanying drawing, the present invention addresses the problem that forms recessed cutting (undercut) in the time that the equipment that uses prior art forms groove in the trenched side-wall in the multiple sweeps at this groove.In groove outer wall, form multiple recessed cutting by prior art equipment, that is to say, the wall in the sweep of groove has the radius of curvature larger than relative trench wall.
Fig. 1 illustrates an example of prior art fluting apparatus 100, and under this particular case, this fluting apparatus is configured to form groove 102 in sea bed 104 and pipeline 106 is imbedded in this groove 102 simultaneously.For fear of causing doubt, can effectively be equipped with for groove formation with for bury the device of pipeline simultaneously according to equipment of the present invention, but pipeline buries the essential feature that device itself is not equipment of the present invention.Prior art equipment 100 comprises that main body 108 contacts conveyer 110 with the multiple ground that are joint connecting ring rail form, this main body 108 is arranged on these ground contact conveyers, and by means of these ground contact conveyers, this equipment 100 moves in the direction of arrow A on sea bed 104.Prior art fluting apparatus 100 demonstrated in Figure 1 comprises elementary soil cutting device 112 and secondary soil cutting device 114, should be understood that, for fear of causing doubt, and do not require that equipment according to the present invention comprises elementary soil cutting device and secondary soil cutting device, although useful embodiment may comprise the two.In Fig. 1, elementary soil cutting device 112 is chain type cutters, and secondary soil cutting device 114 is injecting type cutters.Chain type cutter 112 comprises the endless belt 116 that carries multiple soil cutting teeth 118.This is with 116 to be to be driven by applicable drive unit, makes like this these soil cutting teeth move in loop, and in the process that this moves, these teeth 118 contact soil and make soil displacement to form groove 102.Chain type cutter 112 is installed into around horizontal axis 120 pivotables, to adjust the cutting depth of groove.Horizontal axis 120 is horizontally through with respect to body 108, that is to say, and be vertical with respect to the direct of travel A of equipment 100.Injecting type cutter 114 comprises under high pressure therefrom discharges fluid (water typically) so that multiple outlets or the nozzle of soil displacement.
Fig. 2 a and Fig. 3 a and Fig. 2 b and Fig. 3 b have shown accordingly use prior art equipment and have formed and recessedly cut and use equipment of the present invention to avoid forming recessed cutting.In Fig. 2 a and Fig. 2 b, groove is schematically shown with 202A and 202B accordingly.The center line of these grooves illustrates with 240A and 240B.In the right hand portion of Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B, groove 202A and 202B are substantially linear, and do not produce the recessed problem of cutting of trench wall.Therefore, the orientation of these trench walls be approximately vertical, align substantially with the lateral margin of soil cutting device 200A and 200B.If under any particular case, soil cutting device is configured to and vertical line angled (for example, in the time of cutting vee-cut), and these trench walls are followed the orientation of soil cutting device so.
Approximately putting 230A and 230B place accordingly, groove 202A and 202B start bending or turning, are bending or turning left shown in the situation that.In Fig. 2 a, be arranged in that institute's exposition instruction of the soil cutting device 200A of accompanying drawing left part and 200AA is contingent carries out recessed degree of cutting to trench wall, it should be pointed out that the part of soil cutting device 200A, 200AA extends beyond the indicated border of this groove.In Fig. 2 a (and in Fig. 3 a), according to art methods, soil cutting device 200a, 200AA are maintained in being vertically oriented.On the contrary, showing according in Fig. 2 B of the adjustment of the attitude of groove cutting device 200B of the present invention, 200BB, recessed cutting avoided (as noticed at 232B and 234B place), and realized substantially vertical trench wall.
Same effect is shown in Fig. 3 a and Fig. 3 b.In Fig. 3 a, soil cutting device 200A (schematically illustrated) produces the recessed 232A of cutting carrying out (due to the vertical orientation substantially of soil cutting device 200A) while turning, and in Fig. 3 b, soil cutting device 200B according to the present invention does not produce this recessed cutting, as noticed at 232B place.
Fig. 4 a to Fig. 4 c illustrates the typical case's arrangement according to groove cutting apparatus 400 of the present invention, and this equipment 400 comprises main part 408 (schematically illustrated), and soil cutting device 412 is arranged in this main part.Main part 408 is installed on the multiple ground contact conveyer (not shown) of any applicable type, such as in Fig. 1 shown in 110 the ring rail of kind.
The soil cutting device of showing in Fig. 4 a to Fig. 4 c is to comprise multiple teeth chain type cutter device of (not showing definitely), these teeth are installed into around cyclic path and carry out, and its mode is identical with the mode that the chain type cutter 112 in Fig. 1 is discussed.This chain type cutter 412 is installed in main body 408 at pivot 420 places.The inclination of this chain type cutter 412 is to control by means of the actuator 452 such as hydraulic actuator, this actuator is arranged on support arm 450, by means of this support arm, can adjust the orientation of this chain type cutter 412 around pivot 420, to determine the degree of depth of the groove cutting.
As indicated above, according to the present invention, the attitude of soil cutting device is adjustable, forms recessed cutting to minimize or prevent in groove nonlinear situation in the wall of the groove forming.For prior art equipment, in the time that it must form bending or turning in the groove with small radius, in trench wall, forming recessed problem of cutting is especially severe.With regard to its broadest sense, the attitude of soil cutting device 412 is that the lower end 412a by adjusting this soil cutting device changes, and at least one part or the part adjusting this lower end and be by making this soil cutting device are carried out at the bending direction superior displacement of groove.That is to say, if groove is (with respect to the direction of ditch groove cutting) bending left, the end portion 412a of soil cutting device 412 is also adjusted to left so, and similarly, if this groove is (with respect to the direction of ditch groove cutting) bending to the right, this end portion 412a of this soil cutting device 412 is also adjusted to the right so.
In multiple preferred embodiments, in order to adjust the attitude of soil cutting device 412, make this soil cutting device 412 around horizontal axis (axis 454 shown in Fig. 4 b and Fig. 4 c) rotation, move away from groove outer wall with the bottom part 412a that makes this groove cutting device 412.Axis 454 is preferably arranged essentially parallel to the direct of travel of equipment 400 and will passes substantially soil cutting device 412.Soil cutting device 412 is indicated (not giving the direction certain sense of the arrow in accompanying drawing) around the rotation of axis 454 by arrow 454t.In the preferred operations orientation of soil cutting device 412, in the situation that making to turn to the right, this soil cutting device 412 is rotated up in inhour (counterclockwise) side around axis 454, in the situation that making to turn left, this soil cutting device 412 is rotated in the clockwise direction around axis 454 similarly.
Equipment 400 according to the present invention is equipped with the applicable actuating device of the attitude for adjusting soil cutting device 412, and these actuating devices illustrate with 456 substantially in Fig. 4 a.Applicable actuating device comprises hydraulic actuator.
Most preferably further comprise the control device such as electronic controller according to equipment 400 of the present invention, the adjustment (via multiple actuators 456) of the attitude of this this soil cutting device 412 of control device control.This control device can depend on operator's manual input, but in multiple more preferably arrangements, this control device is determined the attitude of desired soil cutting device 412 at least in part automatically.For example, the position data that this control device can be based on relevant with the steering of equipment 400 and/or the reference data relevant with desired groove curvature are determined the attitude of soil cutting device 412.
In other alternate configuration, the attitude of soil cutting device 412 can be adjusted by the attitude of the main body of adjustment equipment 408 (soil cutting device 412 is arranged in this main body).This height that can adjust by assigning to respect to this body ground contact conveyer (for example, joint connecting ring rail) is realized.In other words, adjust the distance (mainly in perpendicular) of corresponding conveyer, make like this conveyer in main body 408 1 sides be greater than the conveyer on these body 408 opposition sides from the displacement of this main body 408.Therefore body 408 must adopt the attitude tilting with respect to horizon, and soil cutting device 412 correspondingly tilts.In practice, in order to cut bending groove left, make the right-hand side of main body relatively high, and make left-hand side relatively low, and in order to cut bending groove to the right, be that vice versa.
Details of the present invention is described mainly for chain type cutter is used as to soil cutting device at this.It should be pointed out that principle of the present invention is also applicable to injecting type instrument (injecting type cutter) as soil cutting device.Multiple injecting type cutters are discharged one or more high-pressure cutting fluids-be water under normal circumstances)-jet, to make soil displacement and form groove.The position (, discharging the direction of cutting fluid) of cutting fluid jet is to be determined by the orientation of discharging one or more nozzles of cutting fluid from it.Typically, this (or each) nozzle is installed in the end of support arm.The present invention has considered to adjust the attitude of this support arm, to adjust the position that is somebody's turn to do (or each) cutting fluid jet, this position is adjusted in the direction of groove turning or bending at least substantially.
Run through explanation and claims of this manual, word " comprises " and " comprising " and their variant represent " including but not limited to ", and they are not intended to (and not) and get rid of other parts, additive, parts, entirety or step.Explanation and claims of running through this manual, odd number situation contains plural situation, unless context separately has requirement.Specifically, in the situation that using indefinite article, this manual will be interpreted as considers plural form and singulative, unless context separately has requirement.
To be interpreted as and be applicable to any other aspect described herein, embodiment or example in conjunction with the described feature of particular aspects of the present invention, embodiment or example, entirety, characteristic, compound, chemical part or group, unless be not inconsistent with it.In this manual (comprising any claims, summary and accompanying drawing) disclosed all features and/or so disclosed any method or process can combine with any combination (except the combination that wherein at least some these category features and/or step are repelled mutually) in steps.The invention is not restricted to the details of any previous embodiment.The present invention extends to any one novel feature in disclosed feature or its any novel combination in this manual (comprising any claims, summary and accompanying drawing), or extends to any one novel step or its any novel combination in the step of like this disclosed any method or process.
Reader should be noted that to this manual simultaneously or the file relevant with the application of submitting to before it and document and with the file of consulting open to the public and document together with this manual, and the content of all this class files and document is combined in this by reference.
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1. a groove cutting apparatus, this groove cutting apparatus comprises: main part; Multiple ground contact conveyers, this main part is arranged on these ground contact conveyers, and this equipment can cross ground by these ground contact conveyers; And at least one soil cutting device, this at least one soil cutting device is to operate to cut groove, wherein the attitude of this soil cutting device is first to use configuration and be configured to cut between the second use location of bent groove part adjustable what be configured to cut linearity channel portions, and described the second use location is selected in the time of the described bent groove part of formation and minimizes the recessed of trench wall cut.
2. equipment as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, this soil cutting device is chain type cutter or injecting type cutter.
3. equipment as claimed in claim 2, is characterized in that, this equipment further comprises control device, and wherein this attitude of this soil cutting device is adjustable under the control of this control device.
4. equipment as claimed in claim 3, is characterized in that, this attitude of this soil cutting device is automatically adjusted according to the desired radius of curvature of this groove forming by this control device.
5. the equipment as described in claim 2,3 or 4, it is characterized in that, this soil cutting device is to comprise the chain type cutter of installing at the mobile multiple soil cutting teeth of loop, in operating position, this chain type cutter has: lower end, at this lower end, these soil cutting tooth cutting soil are to form this groove; And upper end, at this upper end, these teeth and soil are isolated, described lower end has the outer rim and the inner edge that limit accordingly respectively the retive boundary of this groove cutting, and wherein the adjustment of the attitude to this chain type cutter is like this to make at least a portion of described outer rim towards the bending direction displacement of this groove.
6. equipment as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, this attitude of this chain type cutter is by making this chain type cutter rotate to adjust around nominal level axis.
7. the equipment as described in claim 2,3 or 4, it is characterized in that, this soil cutting device is injecting type cutter, in operating position, this injecting type cutter has: Part I, and discharge cutting fluid from this Part I along position and form this groove with cutting soil; And Part II, this Part II is communicated with in fluid with cutting fluid supply source, and wherein this adjustment of the attitude to this injecting type cutter makes the described position of this cutting fluid towards this bending direction displacement of this groove.
8. equipment as claimed in claim 7, is characterized in that, this attitude of this injecting type cutter is by making this injecting type cutter rotate to adjust around nominal level axis.
9. the equipment as described in claim 6 or 8, it is characterized in that, this equipment further comprises multiple actuators, and these actuators are coupled on this soil cutting device and are configured to by making this soil cutting device rotate to adjust the attitude of this soil cutting device around described horizontal axis.
10. the equipment as described in claim 5 or 7, is characterized in that, the variation in this attitude of this soil cutting device realizes by the variation in this attitude of this body part, and this attitude and this body part of this soil cutting device maintain in fixed relationship.
11. equipment as claimed in claim 10, is characterized in that, the attitude of this body part is by adjusting one or two adjustable interval with respect to this body part in these ground contact conveyers.
12. 1 kinds of methods that cut groove, the method comprises: groove cutting apparatus is provided, and this groove cutting apparatus has adjustable soil cutting device between the first attitude and the second attitude; And cutting before the sweep of this groove, the attitude of this soil cutting device is adjusted to following attitude, under this attitude, the recessed of this trench wall minimizing described sweep cut.
13. methods as claimed in claim 12, is characterized in that, the attitude of this soil cutting device is to adjust according to the radius of curvature of this groove forming.
14. methods as described in claim 12 or 13, is characterized in that, this adjustment in the attitude of this soil cutting device comprises makes this soil cutting device rotate around nominal level axis.
15. methods as described in claim 12 or 13, it is characterized in that, this groove cutting apparatus comprises main part, and this soil cutting device is attached in this main part, and this adjustment in the attitude of this soil cutting device comprises this attitude of adjusting this main part.
16. methods as described in any one in claim 12 to 15, wherein this groove cutting apparatus is the equipment as described in any one in claim 1 to 11.
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