WO1999009299A1 - Pillar bag support - Google Patents
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- WO1999009299A1 WO1999009299A1 PCT/GB1998/002363 GB9802363W WO9909299A1 WO 1999009299 A1 WO1999009299 A1 WO 1999009299A1 GB 9802363 W GB9802363 W GB 9802363W WO 9909299 A1 WO9909299 A1 WO 9909299A1
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- pillar
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21D—SHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; LARGE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS
- E21D15/00—Props; Chocks, e.g. made of flexible containers filled with backfilling material
- E21D15/48—Chocks or the like
- E21D15/483—Chocks or the like made of flexible containers, e.g. inflatable, with or without reinforcement, e.g. filled with water, backfilling material or the like
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- This invention relates to a pillar bag support for yieldably supporting a hanging wall in a mine working.
- a pillar bag support includes a closed ended tubular bag of flexible material, a plurality of hoops of a reinforcing material which are attached to and located circumferentially around the bag in a vertically spaced relationship with at least selected hoops on the bag each including at lease one tie which is attached to the hoop for restraining movement of that portion of the hoop in radially outward direction while the pillar bag is under a compressive load.
- the flexible material from which the bag is made is a woven plastic which is woven in a tube shape by circular weaving.
- one or each hoop tie extends diametrically across and is fixed at both ends to the hoop.
- a plurality of hoop ties are each fixed at one end to the hoop and in the centre of the hoop to each other.
- the hoops and ties may be made from metal, flexible strapping or the like which has adequate tensile strength for the purpose of the hoops and ties.
- the hoops and ties are made from a single length of strapping with loops of the strapping, at intervals about the hoop, being inwardly directed towards the centre of the hoop at which they are attached to each other to provide the hoop ties.
- the pillar bag support preferably includes slotted bracing plates with the inwardly directed strapping loops each passing through a slot in a bracing plate which in use bears on an outer component of the pillar bag.
- the pillar bag support includes mesh reinforcing, which surrounds the pillar on either the inside or outside of the bag.
- the mesh is a wire mesh.
- FIGURE 1 is a side elevation of one embodiment of the pillar bag of the invention in use with the bag material being shown stripped in stages on the right hand side of the drawing,
- FIGURE 2 is a plan view of the bag of Figure 1 shown sectioned on the line 2-2 in Figure 1 ,
- FIGURES 3 to 9 are test graphs of nine of the pillar bags of the invention which were subjected to compressive loads in a press,
- FIGURE 10 is a side elevation of a second embodiment of a pillar bag according to the invention.
- FIGURE 11 is a fragmentary view of the reinforcing arrangement of the bag of Figure 10.
- the embodiment of the pillar bag 10 of the invention as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings includes a bag composed of a flexible outer tube 12 which is made from a woven material and which is closed top and bottom and an inner open ended cylindrical tube of wire mesh reinforcing 14 and, in this embodiment of the invention, four vertically spaced metal hoops 16, with one also at the top and bottom.
- the material of the bag tube 12 could be any suitable material such as woven polypropylene which is water pervious to the extent that when the bag is filled with grout water in the grout will bleed or weep through the material. If drainage of water from the grout is not required, a water impermeable material may also be used.
- the wire mesh is preferably a conventional domestic fencing diamond mesh wire in which the zig-zagged horizontal strands of the mesh are not tied to each other so that the mesh is collapsible in the axial direction of the pillar bag for ease of transport and erection of the bag.
- the hoops 16 are circular and include diametric ties 18 which are fixed at their ends to the hoop and to one another at right angles in the hoop.
- the ties are fixed to the hoop and one another to be non slip for the purpose which will be explained below.
- the hoops 16 are preferably tied by wire or like ties to the mesh in whatever vertically spaced relationship is selected for a particular roof support application.
- the vertically spaced outer hoops are shown against the foot and hanging walls 20 and 22 but in practice would be spaced a little way from the walls.
- the pillar bag of the invention is erected between the hanging and foot walls 20 and 22 in any conventional manner such as by external propping or roof bolting. Although not mentioned above or shown in the drawings the bag obviously includes any conventional and well known filling apertures or tubes which need no further explanation in this specification.
- the bag With the pillar bag erected at its site of use the bag is filled with whatever type of grout is required in a particular application and allowed to cure, if drainage of the grout is required, excess water can be drained through the material of the bag component 12. In this application the pillar bags are filled with a fast setting foamed or solid grout.
- the cured grout rapidly accepts the increasing load imposed on it until the transverse tensile load imposed on the hoops causes them or their ties to fail with the result illustrated in the pillar bag load test in the nine test graphs.
- the hoops and ties illustrated in Figure 1 and 2 were made from mild steel strip having a thickness of 4mm and a width of 25mm. Both the hoops and ties were welded.
- Table 2 illustrates the effect of variable grout density of pillar bag load bearing capacity.
- results are given for pillar bags filled with a solid grout as shown.
- Graphs 1 and 2 in Figure 3 illustrate the different behaviour of pillar bags with 5 untied and tied circular hoops respectively. Without ties, graph 1 , three of the hoops failed at points A, resulting in load shedding, yielding only 80 tons load at 50% compression. With the tied hoops, 2 noticeable hoop failures occurred with recovery of load capacity thereafter to yield 227 tons of support.
- Graphs 3 and 4 of Figures 4 and 5 must be similarly compared, these representing pillar bags with 6 untied and tied hoops respectively, tied hoops giving much improved load capacity, from 145 to 445 tons respectively.
- Table 1 illustrates the effect of tied hoops on pillar bag performance.
- Graphs 5, 2 and 6 of Table 2 illustrate the performance effect of various foamed grout densities on identically reinforced pillar bags according to the invention, each with 5 tied hoops, and illustrating increasing load capacity with increasing grout foam density.
- a second embodiment 24 of the pillar bag of the invention is shown in Figures 10 and 11 to include a circular weave tubular bag 26 which is woven from a suitably strong plastics material such as polypropylene and which, like the bag of the Figure 1 embodiment, is closed top and bottom and includes, not shown, the conventional grout filling spouts and so on.
- a circular weave tubular bag 26 which is woven from a suitably strong plastics material such as polypropylene and which, like the bag of the Figure 1 embodiment, is closed top and bottom and includes, not shown, the conventional grout filling spouts and so on.
- the bag 24 additionally includes a plurality of circumferential straps 28 which are made from woven polypropylene to a heavy industrial grade and which are made to be slightly elastic with about a twenty percent stretch capability.
- the straps 28 are each composed of a single length of strapping which is looped inwardly at four quadrant positions on the bag with the four inward loops being passed through slots in a metal bracing plates 30, as more clearly seen in Figure 11 , with the inner strap loops 32 being passed through and folded over a heavy duty metal ring 34 which, in use, is situated on the vertical axis of the pillar bag.
- the ends of the loop straps 32 are sewn back on themselves as illustrated in the drawing with the two ends of the single strap 28 then being sewn together to lie on the outside of the pillar bag.
- the entire outer portion of each strap 28 is sewn on to the material of the bag 26.
- the looped straps 32 on the inside of the bag provide ties similar to the ties 18 of the Figure 1 embodiment.
- bracing plates 30 The purpose of the bracing plates 30 is to hold the two strap portions of the looped portion 32 of the straps together on the outer surface of the bag 26 to prevent them from separating and so tearing the bag 26 when the bag is deformed under load.
- the ring 34 is merely one method of attaching the ties defined by the looped straps 32 to each other and any other suitable method of tying the straps could be employed to achieve the same result.
- the looped ends of the straps could merely be sewn together in some suitable manner.
- the hoops particularly in the case where they are made from a sewable material such as belting, could sewn directly onto either the inner or outer surface of the material 12 of the bag and the reinforcing mesh 14, if used, could be wrapped and tied around the outer surface of the bag material 12.
- the ties may be of wire incorporated into the pack from the structure of the mesh.
- the invention is not limited to passive support only but may also be used where pillar bag pre-stressing is required.
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AU89901/98A AU739209B2 (en) | 1997-08-18 | 1998-08-14 | Pillar bag support |
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