US3309142A - Cutterhead assembly for a shield-type tunneling machine - Google Patents

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US3309142A
US3309142A US284709A US28470963A US3309142A US 3309142 A US3309142 A US 3309142A US 284709 A US284709 A US 284709A US 28470963 A US28470963 A US 28470963A US 3309142 A US3309142 A US 3309142A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21D—SHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; LARGE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS
    • E21D9/00—Tunnels or galleries, with or without linings; Methods or apparatus for making thereof; Layout of tunnels or galleries
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21D—SHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; LARGE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS
    • E21D9/00—Tunnels or galleries, with or without linings; Methods or apparatus for making thereof; Layout of tunnels or galleries
    • E21D9/06—Making by using a driving shield, i.e. advanced by pushing means bearing against the already placed lining
    • E21D9/08—Making by using a driving shield, i.e. advanced by pushing means bearing against the already placed lining with additional boring or cutting means other than the conventional cutting edge of the shield
    • E21D9/0875—Making by using a driving shield, i.e. advanced by pushing means bearing against the already placed lining with additional boring or cutting means other than the conventional cutting edge of the shield with a movable support arm carrying cutting tools for attacking the front face, e.g. a bucket
    • E21D9/0879—Making by using a driving shield, i.e. advanced by pushing means bearing against the already placed lining with additional boring or cutting means other than the conventional cutting edge of the shield with a movable support arm carrying cutting tools for attacking the front face, e.g. a bucket the shield being provided with devices for lining the tunnel, e.g. shuttering

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  • Objects, features, and advantages of the present invention further include the provision of a cutterhead assembly for a shield type tunneling machine wherein:
  • the cutterhead is adapted for rotation in both the clockwise and counterclockwise directions and is provided with bucket means at its periphery, some of which, termed one-way buckets, have a single scoop opening in the direction of normal rotation, and others of which, termed two-way buckets, have scoops opening in both directions of rotation;
  • the cutterhead includes radially extending material chutes preferably arranged in alternate fashion with the cutterhead service compartments, said chutes receiving the mined material from the scoops and when in a substantially upright position discharging such material onto a material receiving station located partially at least within a relatively large central opening in the rear wall of the cutterhead, such material receiving station pref- El -J erably taking the form of a receiving conveyor forming the first stage of a conveyor system adapted for removal of the mined material from the location of the machine within the tunnel to a depository situated outside of the tunnel;
  • a retractable sectional hood is mounted for reciprocal movement in the outside of the cutterhead support portion of the shield skin and the thrust rams located in the vicinity of the hood are utilized as actuators for extending the hood sections.
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary side elevational View of the shield tunneling machine in operation, with the cutterhead and cutterhead support presented in longitudinal sectron;
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken through the cutterhead, substantially along line 2-2 of FIG. 1, such view showing the alternate arrangement of radially extending material chutes and cutterhead service compartments;
  • FIG. 3 is an elevational view of the front face of the cutterhead, with parts of such cutterhead broken away to show the bull gear that is attached to the rear side of the cutterhead in mesh with two of the pinion gears which drive the same, such view also illustrating that the cutters or knives are only located in the portions of the cutterhead forward wall that constitute the front walls of the cutterhead service compartments, including those cutters located in the portions of the cutterhead forward wall that immediately trail the one-way buckets;
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged scale view of an individual knife or cutter and its mounting arrangement, such view presenting the cutter in side elevation with parts in longitudinal section;
  • FIG. 5 is a top plan sectional view of the cutter assembly of FIG. 4, taken substantially along line 5-5 of FIG. 6;
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged scale fragmentary view of one of the obliquely oriented cutters located at the periphery of those portions of the cutterhead forward wall that trail the one-way buckets;
  • FIG. 8 is a view taken from the rear of the cutterhead support with a portion of the back wall of such cutterhead support removed to present a clear showing of certain interior regions of the cutterhead support, such view showing the radially extending crawl spaces interconnecting the central passageway extending through the O cutterhead support with interior portions of said cutterhead support located radially outboard of the compartments in which the motors for driving the cutterhead are mounted and
  • FIG. 9 is an enlarged scale fragmentary view of an upper portion of the cutterhead support, with a hood section shown in such view in both its retracted (solid lines) and extended (broken lines) positions.
  • the tunneling machine shown in FIG. 1 includes a shield S characterized by a generally. cylindrical skin it) having a nose section equipped with a cutting edge 12, which may be conventional per se; a tail section 14; and a transverse cutterhead support CS spanning the interior of the skin intermediate the ends thereof.
  • a rotary cutterhead C is mounted for rotation on the anterior wall 16 of the cutterhead support CS, preferably by means of an annular bearing 18, the upper race of which is socurely fastened to the cutterhead support CS, as by nut and bolt assemblies (not shown), and the lower race of which is firmly attached to the rear wall of the cutterhead, also by means of nut and bolt assemblies (not shown).
  • the front wall 19 of the cutterhead C is provided with a plurality of forwardly projecting cutters, some of which are designated 29 for sake of example.
  • the cutters 20 are placed at different distances from the center of the cutterhead C, and when the cutterhead C revolves such cutters 26 cut concentric grooves in the face of the tunnel, resulting in a complete breakaway of the face of the tunnel to the depth of the cut.
  • the particular mounting arrangement of the cutters 2G and the pattern or layout of the same are hereinafter described more fully.
  • the cutterhead C is revolved by means of a plurality of pinion gears, some or" which are designated 22 in FIGS. l and 3, for example, which mesh with a large bull gear 24 forming an integral part of the inner race 26 (FIG. 3) of the annular bearing 18.
  • the motive power is furnished by a plurality of reversible motors M, a particularly advantageous number of them being 10, arranged four above and six below the horizontai center line of the cutterhead support CS.
  • a plurality of buckets B, BB are circumferentially arranged about the generally disk-shaped front wall 28 of the cutterhead C.
  • the buckets B are termed one-way buckets since they only open in the direction of normal rotation of the cutterhead C which, as viewed from the rear of the cutterhead C, is preferably clockwise Buckets BB open in both directions of rotation and are termed two-way buckets.
  • the scoop portions FS, RS forward scoop and rearward scoop, respectively, relating to the direction of normal rotation
  • both the oneway buckets B and the twoway buckets B3 are picking up mined material from the ground at the tunnel face, during advancing movement of the cutterhead C into the working face of the tunnel.
  • the buckets BB, B have radially inwardly extending discharge chutes 40, 4-2, respectively, associated therewith, ultimately discharging the mined material onto a receiving conveyor 44 located partially at least within a central passageway 46 extending through cutterhead support CS.
  • a deflector 48 of appropriate construction is used to guide the mined material dropped from the chutes 40, 42 onto the receiving conveyor 44.
  • the reactive torque is advantageously used to rotate the shield S back into its originial position, at which time the reverse rotation of the cutterhead C is ceased and normal operation of the same resumed.
  • the rear scoops RS of the two-way buckets BB are digging material and discharging it through the chutes 40 onto the receiving conveyor 44.
  • the receiving conveyor 44 preferably comprises an endiess belt of metal pads linked together so as to be durable and able to resist the shock of the mined material falling on it from the chutes 4t), 42.
  • Conveyor Z4 feeds the mined material onto a longer conveyor 5% comprising an endless belt constructed of rubber or a similar material.
  • Conveyor 59 is encased partially within what is termed the erector tube 52 and partially within a conveyor tube 54 extending rearwardly out of said erector tube 54 and communicating at its rearmost end with a hopper type apparatus (not shown) into which conveyor 50 discharges and which apparatus in turn serves to discharge the mined material onto a tunnel conveyor leading from the location of the tunneling machine to the outside of the tunnel, all in accordance with procedures not necessarily forming a part of the present invention.
  • the tunnel is lined as it is dug, preferably in accordance with the procedures and techniques outlined in the aforementioned copending application Serial No. 284,- 604.
  • a pair of segment erectors E are mounted on the tube 52 for rotation thereabout.
  • the means for rotating the segment erectors E about tube 52 include an annular reaction gear RG which encircles and is fixed to the tube and motor drive gears DG carried by the segment erectors and arranged to mesh with reaction gear R6.
  • the shoving, driving, or moving forward of the shield S and the rotary cutterhead C carried thereby is accomplished by means of thrust rams R attached to the shield structure and reacting against the tunnel lining previously erected (FIG. 1).
  • a hood or visor H extends along the outside of the cutterhead support portion of the shield skin and is mounted thereon for reciprocal movement from a retracted position shown in solid lines in FIG. 9) to an'ex-- tended position (shown in broken lines in FIG. 9).
  • the hood H is constructed in sections HS (FIG. 3), and at least some of the thrust rams R located to the rear of each hood section HS are used as actuators for extending the same.
  • the means connecting the hood sections HS with the thrust rams include a generally radially extending pin plate 56 fixed along its upper edge to the inner surface of a hood section HS and extending radially inwardly from said section to ride in a longitudinally extending slot 58 provided in the cutterhead portion of the shield skin.
  • a connecting rod 60 (one for each thrust ram R used) preferably of sectional construction, is attached at its forward end to the pin plate 56, as by a clevis 52, or the like, and at its rearward end to a collar 64 located on the piston closely adjacent the ram shoe portion 66 thereof.
  • Such collar 64 includes an upstanding ear 68, or the like, onto which a clevis 70, or the like, on the rearward end of the connecting rod 60, is attached.
  • the pistons of the thrust rams R are retracted and as they move they carry with them the hood sections HS, moving the same to their extended'positions.
  • the hood sections HS are then firmly anchored to the cutterhead support and the connecting rod 60 is detached so that the thrust rams can once again be used for their primary function of moving the tunneling machine forward.
  • a plurality of bar-like spacers SB of the same thickness as the hood sections HS are circumferentially spaced around the lower half of the cutterhead support CS (FIG. 3) so as to make the outside radius of such lower half equal to the outside radius of the upper half which includes the thickness of the hood sections. This arrangement centers the tunneling machine with respect to the tunnel.
  • cutterhead C includes a generally annular rear wall 72.
  • the said walls 19, 72 define between them a cutterhead interspace or interior chamber, in which the bucket chutes 40, 42 are housed.
  • the bucket chutes 40, 42- extend generally radially of the cutterhead C. interposed between or alternated with the bucket chutes 40, 42 are a plurality of compartments 74, 76 termed cutterhead service compartments.
  • the cutterhead service compartments designated 74 are situated to the open side of the oneway buckets B and terminate generally at the periphery of the cutterhead front wall 19, having as a boundary at such location a peripheral wall 78.
  • the cutterhead service compartments designated 76 are located to the closed sides of the one-way buckets B and include as a partial peripheral closure a periphenal wall 80.
  • bucket service compartments 82 On the closed side of the one-way buckets B but radially outboard of the periphery of cutterhead wall 1%, are located what may be termed bucket service compartments 82, such compartments in effect being extensions of the cutterhead service compartments 76.
  • the forward walls 84 of the bucket service compartments 54 carry a plurality of cutters 20'; walls 84 constituting radial continuations of the front wall 19 of the cutterhead C.
  • the walls 84 are preferably of plate construction and they extend laterally to also form the front sidewall of the forward scoops FS.
  • the twoway buckets BB include walls 86 of plate construction, also constituting radial extensions of cutterhead wall 19. Walls 86 are configured similar to the said walls 84, but of course do not include cutters.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 show the cutters it as each including a knife portion 88 and a shank portion 90.
  • a generally rectangular (but not necessarily) opening 92 extends through cutterhead forward wall 19 at each cutter location.
  • An elongated mountin member 94 preferably in the form of a section of channel, is attached to the rear surface of wall 19 at the opening 9 (as by welding) and extends rearwardly of and substantially normal to the rear surface of wall 19.
  • the mounting member 94 is shown in FIG. 6 as including spaced apart flange portions 96, 98 and a web 1% interconnecting therebetween.
  • the interior surfaces of flanges 96, 98 are preferably provided with longitudinally extending guide means for the cutter 20.
  • the guide means may suitably take the form of laterally sloping guide surfaces 192, 1&4, with the passage formed between said guide surfaces 102, 104 diverging from the inside (adjacent web 1%) to the outside ends of the flanges 9d, 98.
  • each cutter 20 is suitably provided with longitudinally extending charnfer surfaces 1%, Hi8 related in slope or anguiarity to the said guide surfaces 162, 104.
  • a plurality of openings 11% extend laterally through the web 1% and are selectively alignable with similar openings 112 extending laterally through. the shank portion 90 of the cutters 20.
  • Bolt type fastening means or the like (designated F) are inserted through one or more aligned pairs of openings 110, 112 and a nut attached to its or their threaded ends to firmly secure the cutter 20 to the mounting member 534, with the degree of penetration of the knives 83 out from the front surface of wall 19 being determined by the selective alignment of the openings 110, 112.
  • a filler piece 115 may be used as shown in the drawing. Cutter 2%) is snugly accommodated within the interior portion of mounting member 94 by virtue of the surface to surface contact between chamfers 106, 1% and guide surfaces 102, 104. This feature lends stability to the cutter 2i and prevents it from rolling within the interior of the mounting member 94.
  • a cutter rest 11% is attached to the front surface of wall 19, as by Welding, with a surface 116 (FIG. 5) of such rest 114 abutting against a surface 118 of the cutter 20.
  • the cutters 2i) and the mounting means therefor are identical in construction to the cutters 20 and their mounting arrangement, just described.
  • at least some of the outermost or peripheral cutters 20' are obliquely oriented so as to lean some what radially outwardly away from wall 18 as well as to project forwardly thereof (FIGS. 1 and 7).
  • the peripheral cutters 20 are set so that their knife portions 88 extend in front of and cut a path for the circumferentially extending cutter edge 12 of the shield S.
  • the peripheral cutters 20 are retracted to the extent that the knife portions 88 thereof (FIG. 7) are to the inside of the skin 10 a sufficient distance to allow the hood sections HS to be extended.
  • the back side mounting arrangement of the cutters 2t 20 onto wall 19 facilitates their installation, removal and replacement.
  • installation and removal of the cutters Z0, 20 are done within the protection of service compartments 74, 76, 82 and not in the space forwardly of the cutterhead C between the tunnel face and the front surface of the cutterhead, where working conditions are uncomfortable and extremely hazardous due to the constant danger of overhead pieces of rock dislodging and fallin g on the workman or the entire face of the tunnel collapsing, etc., as is the case in known conventional machines wherein the cutters are mounted onto the front side of the cutterhead face.
  • the anterior wall 16 of the cutterhead support CS is a bulkhead and at least the largest portion of the region forwardly of such wall 16 is pressurized while the main portion of the tunnel rearwardly thereof is not.
  • the material compartment, of which erector tube 52 is a part is interiorly pressurized, and the rear portion of such material compartment includes material lock means adapted for removal ofthe mined material from the material compartment without depressurizing the same.
  • crawl spaces 120, 122 are provided between the upper and lower sets of reversible motors M.
  • crawl spaces 120, 122 are provided with openings at their ends and serve to interconnect the central passageway 46 with interior compartments 124, 126 of the cutterhead support CS.
  • At least one, but preferably a plurality of openings 128 are provided at circumferentially spaced locations in the anterior wall 16 of the cutterhead support CS. These openings 128 are alignable with similar openings 130 (FIG. 2) extending through the cutterhead rear wall.
  • the openings 130 may be covered by plates 131, or the like.
  • access to the interior of central passageway 46 may be by means of a man lock (not shown) located toward the rear of the material compartment.
  • the second manner of gaining access to the cutterhead service compartments 74, '76 is provided by one or more emergency service locks SL (FIG. 1) extending through cutterhead support CS and including the usual pair of doors D1, D2, which in the present installation are aligna'ble with the openings 13% in the rear wall 72 of the cutterhead C.
  • a set of access doors may be substituted for the service locks SL and used for gaining access to the cutterhead service compartments 74, 76 from the tunnel region rearwardly of the cutterhead support CS. Also, in these installations the man lock is not necessary for gaining access to passageway 46.
  • a cutterhead assembly for a shield-type machine comprising:
  • transverse cutterhead support spanning the interior of said skin and including a relatively large central passageway
  • a rotary cutterhead situated forwardly of said cutterhead support, said cutterhead comprising forward wall means, a plurality of cutters extending forwardly of said forward wall means, a plurality of buckets circumferentially spaced around the periphery of said forward wall means, rear wall means spaced behind said forward wall means and defining therewith a hollow innerspace, said rear wall means being disposed forwardly of the cutterhead support, and including a central opening related generally coaxially to, and situated forwardly of, the passageway in the cutterhead support, and means dividing at least a portion of said cutterhead innerspace into material chutes extending radially inwardly from said buckets;
  • mined material receiving means partially situated in the central passageway of said cutterhead support, and extending thence forwardly through the central opening in the rear wall means of said cutterhead tunneling 3 and into'the central region of the hollow innerspace of said cutterhead, in position to receive mined material from the material chutes when such chutes are substantially in an overhead position relative to said receiving means;
  • a cutterhead assembly in accordance with claim 1, wherein the means rotatably supporting said cutterhead comprises an annular bearing in concentric surrounding relationship to the central opening in the rear wall means of the cutterhead, and includes inner and outer races, one of which is secured to the cutterhead, and the other is secured to the cutterhead support, with gear teeth on the bearing race that is secured to the cutterhead, and said assembly also includes at least one drive gear positioned between said cutterhead and the said cutterhead support, in mesh with the gear teeth on the bearing race, and motor means for rotating said drive gear, which motor is mounted on said cutterhead support.
  • a cutterhead assembly for a shield-type tunneling machine comprising: a shieid having a generally cylindrical skin, and a transverse cutterhead support spanning the interior of said skin, and including a relatively large central passageway; a rotary cutterhead situated forwardly of said cutterhead support, said cutterhead comprising forward wall means, a plurality of cutters extending forwardly of said forward wall means, a plurality of buckets circumferentially spaced around the periphery of said forward wall means, rear wall means spaced behind said forward wall means and defining therewith a hollow innerspace, said rear wall means including a central opening related generally coaxially to the passageway in the cutterhead support, and means dividing at least a portion of said cutterhead innerspace into material chutes extending radially inwardly from said buckets, and a plurality of service compartments alternating in arrangement with said material chutes, with the openings for the cutters extending through those portions of the cutterhead front walls that also form the front walls of the service compartments, with the cutters being
  • said guide means comprises a pair of opposed, laterally sloping sur faces, each extending lengthwise of the interior opening, wherein the shank portion of the cutter includes matching laterally sloped surfaces relatable to said laterally sloped surfaces of the track means, and wherein said means for detachably connecting the shank portion of the cutter to the mounting means includes alignable, generally laterally extending openings in said shank portion and in said mounting means, a pin-like element insertable through said aligned openings, and means for retaining it therein.
  • said mounting means includes a plurality of axially spaced, generally laterally extending openings, each selectively alignable with the said generally laterally extending opening in the shank portion of the cutter.
  • shank portions of the cutters include a plurality of axially spaced, generally laterally extending openings, each selectively alignable with the said generally laterally extending opening in said mounting means.
  • hood means reciprocally mounted on approximately the upper one-half of the shield
  • bucket means at the periphery of said cutter carrying wall said bucket means including a scoop having an open mouth portion and a curved material turning portion, said scoop being disposed to discharge material into the radially extending chute means, said bucket means also including a cutter carrying portion mounted adjacent to the said material turning wall means, and said cutter carrying portion including a forward wall having at least one cutter receiving opening therein and cutter mounting means on the rear side of said wall contiguous the opening;
  • cutter means attached to said mounting means and including a knife portion extending through the opening forwardly of the forward wall a predetermined distance;
  • service compartment means situated rearwardly of the forward wall of the cutter carrying portion of'tlie bucket and communicating with the service compartment in the cutterhead;
  • access means permitting ingress to and egress from the service compartments from a location to the rear of said cutterhead.
  • a rotary cutterhead comprising a cutter carrying wall; openings in said wall at a plurality of locations; cutter mounting means situated on the rear side of said Wall generally contiguous said openings; a cutter extending through each of said openings, said cutters having knife and shank end portions, with the knife end portion extending forwardly of said wall; and means detachably connecting the shank portion of each cutter to its mounting means, with the shank ends of the cutters being substantially elongated and the mounting means comprising an axially elongated element attached at its front end to the rear side of the cutter carrying wall, said element including an axially extending interior opening and guide means in said opening for said cutter.
  • a cutterhead assembly for a tunneling machine comprising a rotary cutterhead including a cutter carrying wall, openings at a plurality of locations in said wall, cutter mounting means situated on the rear side of said wall generally contiguous each said openings, a cutter extending through each of said openings, and insertable into position forwardly through its opening from the rear side of said wall, said cutters having knife and shank end portions, with the knife end portion extending forwardly of said wall, means detachably connecting the shank portion of each cutter to its mounting means, a rear wall spaced rearwardly of the front wall to form a hollow cutterhead interior, with at least one service space compartment provided within said interior, with said forward wall spanning across the forward end of said service compartment and forming a forward closure therefor, and a barrier to prevent material from the tunnel face from entering the said service compartment, with said cutter mounting means being accessible from said service compartment, and access means permitting ingress to and egress from said service compartment.
  • a cutterhead assembly for a tunneling machine in accordance with claim 16 wherein the generally hollow interior is divided into a plurality of generally radially extending service compartments, the access means permitting ingress to and egress from said service compartments extends through the said rear wall of said cutterhead, and the cutter receiving openings extend through those portions of the cutterhead front wall forming the forward boundaries of said service compartments.
  • each said cutter mounting means comprises an elongated mounting element fixed at its front end to the rear surface of the cutterhead forward wall, said mounting element including a channel receiving the shank portion of the cutter element, and defined in part by a side member in juxtaposition with said shank, said side member and said shank including generally coaxially alignable transverse openings; and wherein a bolt means extends through said openings and secures said cutter element to the mounting means.
  • the mounting means comprises an axially elongated element attached at its front end to the rear side of the cutter carrying wall, said element including an axially extending socket and guide means in said socket for said cutter.
  • said guide means comprises a pair of opposed, laterally sloping surfaces, each extending lengthwise of the interior opening, wherein the shank portion of the cutter includes matching laterally sloped surfaces relatable to said laterally sloped surfaces of the guide means, and wherein said means for detachably connecting the shank portion of the cutter to the mounting means includes alignable, generally laterally extending openings in said shank portion and in said mounting means, a pin-like element insertable through said aligned openings, and means for retaining it therein.
  • said mounting means includes a plurality of axially spaced generally laterally extending openings, each selectively alignable with said generally laterally extending opening in the shank portion of the cutter.
  • shank portions of the cutters include a plurality of axially spaced, generally laterally extending openings, each selectively alignable with the said generally laterally extending opening in said mounting means.
  • a shield comprising (1) a skin having a forwardly directed cutting edge
  • cutterhead support means spanning the interior of said skin
  • hood means mounted on the shield skin for reciprocal movement axially of the tunnel;
  • a cutterhead assembly for an earth boring machine; a reversible cutterhead, cutterhead support means mounting said cutterhead for rotation about a center axis, reversible drive means for selectively rotating the cutterhead in either direction about said axis, and means for moving the cutterhead assembly axially foiwardly into an earth formation
  • said cutterhead comprising a forward wall, forwardly directed cutter means on said wall for cutting and dislodging the earth formation during cutterhead rotation, in either direction, at least one peripheral bucket having an axially forwardly directed inlet opening and a scoop which opens in one direction of cutterhead rotation, and scoops up earth formation cuttings during cutterhead rotation in such direction, at least one other peripheral bucket having an axially forwardly directed inlet opening and a scoop which opens in the opposite direction of cutterhead rotation, and scoops up earth formation cuttings during cutterhead rotation in such direction, each said scoop occupying a fixed position on the cutterhead and including wall means for turning and directing the scooped earth formation cuttings generally radially inwardly, and an
  • At least one of said buckets includes two scoops, one opening in each direction of rotation, and said scoops both discharge into the material chute of said bucket, and wherein the wall means of each said scoop for turning the earth formation cut-tings each commences at the outer radial boundary of the scoop, near its inlet, and thence curves both radially inwardly and toward the wall means of the other scoop, and substantially meets the other such wall inside said chute.
  • the material chute further includes a partition extending radially inwardly therethrough a substantial distance from the point of substantial contact of said curved walls, said partition serving to direct the earth formation cuttings radially inwardly into the chute, thereby preventing such cuttings, when scooped up by the leading scoop, from moving generally tangentially and from said chute through the trailing scoop.

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