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7404455 |
An apparatus is used with an impact hammer penetration assemble such as standard penetration test (SPT) in geotechnical engineering. The impact hammer penetration assembly comprises a penetration sample, a series of rods coupled together...
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7392856 |
A sampling device for collecting depth-specific samples in silt, sludge and granular media has three chambers separated by a pair of iris valves. Rotation of the middle chamber closes the valves and isolates a sample in a middle chamber.
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7387175 |
Window reaming and coring apparatus has a reamer connected in the middle of the tool by mechanical joints which permit the reamer to be displaced substantially parallel to the rest, of the tool body. The apparatus is lowered adjacent a p...
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7380615 |
A core sample extraction system for extracting a plug from soil and removing the plug from the device so that the soil and any roots in the plug can be analyzed includes a boring tube including a top end and a bottom end. The bottom end ...
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7347281 |
Disclosed herein is a coring tubular. The coring tubular has a body, at least one opening hole radially oriented in the tubular body and a parting line in the tubular body. Further disclosed herein is a method for reducing contamination ...
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7343984 |
A core sample collector includes a cylinder and a piston, wherein the piston includes a piston body, upper piston rings and lower piston rings, and a sterilizing agent is held in a space defined between the piston, the cylinder, the uppe...
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7328757 |
A method includes powering a drill motor with power derived from an all terrain vehicle (ATV) engine and controlling the drill motor. An apparatus includes a ATV with a power takeoff configured to deliver power from an ATV engine. A dril...
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7255016 |
An apparatus removes soil samples at intervals over a field of interest. The apparatus comprises a sampling assembly ( 60 ) that rotates on a track ( 32 ) riding on a plurality of idler wheels ( 29, 31 ). A probe ( 66 ) extends and retra...
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7240743 |
This invention relates to probes used in the ground for the collection of data relating to soil conditions and in particular to a construction and method of insertion of probe bodies that will house such probes. A probe body insertion ap...
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7216725 |
A soil sampling system is provided that allows headspace screening of soil samples at spaced intervals along a soil sample liner without disturbing the soil samples to be collected and shipped to a laboratory for further testing. The soi...
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7174829 |
An adjustable piston pump for displacement and extraction of remnant from soft sand and or soft soil includes a pump casing cylinder that is capped at one end and opens at the other end. It includes a handle fixed to the pump casing cyli...
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7172036 |
A soil sample containment device is provided which allows soil samples to be contained within individual sections of a soil sampler liner. The device includes first and second end caps for covering and sealing the respective ends of the ...
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RE39468 |
A tool for withdrawing a soil sample comprising a frame member including a portion including spaced vertically extending legs having lower ends, a foot portion fixed to the lower ends of the legs and including a horizontally extending sl...
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7100707 |
An intact core sample from a soil area, such as a golf green or a ball field, is embedded in molded plastic. The core sample first is obtained, and then adhesively bonded together prior to molding it in clear plastic to preserve the soil...
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7055624 |
A guide rail system ( 1 ) for a power tool ( 2 ), has at least two axially extending guide rails ( 3, 3 ′), at least one guide slide ( 4, 4 ′) displaceable on the guide rails ( 3, 3 ′) having a coupling part ( 5 a, 5 b ) for secur...
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7013993 |
A method of taking a crustal core sample, wherein the crustal core sample is obtained in a state coated with an antimicrobial polymeric gel formed of a polymer and an inorganic antimicrobial agent dispersed in the polymer. The inorganic ...
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7004265 |
A sponge core barrel for use in performing sponge coring and methods of assembling the sponge core barrel, as well as methods of performing sponge coring. The sponge core barrel includes an outer barrel assembly, a core bit secured to a ...
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6957930 |
Apparatus to install small diameter columns of granular material in soil which includes rotating hollow shaft mandrel with external projections to aid mandrel advance into the soil and define the size of the cavity formed in the soil, th...
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6907931 |
The invention concerns a device for driving into the marine subsurface, in particular at great depths exceeding a thousand meters, a tubular tool for soil sampling or for measuring said soil characteristics. The invention is characterize...
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6863136 |
Apparatus for probing, sensing, testing penetrating and sampling a medium generally includes an actuator ( 12 ) for generating vibrations at ultrasonic frequencies and a horn ( 14 ) coupled to the actuator ( 12 ) for amplifying the actua...
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6845677 |
The device for sampling material of granular or powdery composition includes a stem at one end of which a wheel is mounted intended to cause the device to rotate. At the opposite end is a driving head. The head is mounted symmetrically o...
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6845657 |
A sample collection device for collecting a sample of drill cuttings from a hole being drilled as the hole is being drilled includes a stem collector surrounding the drill pipe. Pressurized air is injected through the drill pipe into the...
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6837312 |
A novel corer and grinder apparatus suitable for interplanetary travel and extraplanetary operation is disclosed. The corer grinder composes a claw element attached to a shaft coupled to a motor. A second motor compresses a spring forcin...
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6772651 |
A soil sampler liner with areas of reduced wall thickness is defined by a continuous wall that has a reduced area extending along at least a portion of the length of the liner. The liner is inserted into the inner bore of a sampler probe...
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6752219 |
A turf cutting and handling system for the borehole of a golf green cup includes a generally cylindrical hollow barrel with a cutting edge disposed about a lower periphery of the barrel. A manually grippable handle allows the barrel to b...
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6729417 |
A soil tester combination is provided that has an elongated rigid outer semi-cylindrical sleeve with a sharp narrowed outer sleeve end and a handle mounted on an opposite outer sleeve end, and a similar inner sleeve having a plurality of...
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6729416 |
A core sample retaining sleeve is provided for preventing loss of a cut core sample from the distal end of a coring bit, particularly during retraction of the coring bit to within the coring tool. Preferably, the core sample retaining sl...
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6719070 |
A sponge core barrel for use in performing sponge coring and methods of assembling the sponge core barrel, as well as methods of performing sponge coring. The sponge core barrel includes an outer barrel assembly, a core bit secured to a ...
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6712161 |
A containment cartridge for extracting and preserving a soil sample comprises a cylindrical sampling barrel for insertion into the soil for collecting a soil sample.
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6712158 |
An apparatus and method for creating a hole in a subsurface formation is disclosed. The apparatus includes an inner assembly, which may include a coring barrel, a piston cylinder and a piston rod member, is connected to an elongate membe...
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6705411 |
The invention relates to a downhole rotary coring device placeable in a drill string and comprising a head section, a motor, and a core barrel having an outer motor comprising a rotor connected to the outer barrel and a stator to the hea...
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6695078 |
A cutting apparatus for use in a sampler is disclosed. The cutting apparatus includes an extension tube having a round unit on a bottom side of the extension tube; a cutting ring located in a bottom portion of a protecting tube; a guide ...
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6695076 |
A method of taking a crustal core sample, wherein the crustal core sample is obtained in a state coated with an antimicrobial polymeric gel formed of a polymer obtained by polymerizing an antimicrobial monomer, preferably a quaternary am...
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6681872 |
An in situ reactor for use in a geological strata, is described and which includes a liner defining a centrally disposed passageway and which is placed in a borehole formed in the geological strata; and a sampling conduit is received wit...
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6675913 |
A method and apparatus for core drilling of concrete by resiliently mounting a hammer drill to a drill press or similar support frame using a recoil spring to maintain a driving force on the hammer drill. An air blower is positioned adja...
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6672407 |
The present invention provides a method for drilling, analyzing, and stabilizing subsurface formations. The system is generally formed around a reusable bottomhole assembly (BHA) that provides an anchoring and thrust mechanism, furnishin...
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6663321 |
A process for producing a pile in the earth with a pipe is provided. The pipe is provided internally with a conduit, which emerges on the bottom side of the pipe, for feeding pile-forming, hardening material into the earth. The pipe is i...
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6662879 |
A combined bulb and vegetable planter which is spring loaded to allow the user to readily remove a plug of soil from the ground, either for the purpose of planting vegetables and disposing of the plug of soil or planting a bulb and retur...
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6659195 |
A drive head for supporting a soil sampling tube in a drive assembly in which the head and tube are driven into the ground by a power source connected to the head or to at least one drive rod connected to the head. The drive head has a b...
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6644423 |
A tool latching and retrieval system allows the deployment and retrieval of a variety of direct push subsurface characterization tools through an embedded rod string during a single penetration without requiring withdrawal of the string ...
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6634440 |
A tool for removing a drill core is formed of a tubular tool member ( 1 ) having an axially extending receptacle region (A) and an axially extending gripping region (B), wherein the receptacle region (A) extends partially around half of ...
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6612377 |
An excavation cleaning tool or dredge is provided which rotates and scrapes together and captures the loose soil, sand and gravel debris at the bottom of the hole to provide a clean, flat-bottomed hole which is free of compressible excav...
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6598458 |
A chamber for trapping soil gases as they evolve from the soil without disturbance to the soil and to the natural microclimate within the chamber has been invented. The chamber opens between measurements and therefore does not alter the ...
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6517292 |
An apparatus to install multiple small diameter columns in soil which includes a hollow shaft element to form a cavity in soil, a storage hopper to contain granular material at or near the base unit of the apparatus from which an elongat...
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6464020 |
An single apparatus to drill and lift core specimens from an aggregate field includes a frame structure that can be deployed to a workface and is adapted to hydraulically deploy a rotating core drilling bit upon that workface to cut a co...
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6412575 |
The present invention provides a brush bit for cutting a core sample from an unconsolidated formation with reduced fragmentation or damage to the core sample by using a plurality of stiff bristles to cut rock from around the core sample....
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6394192 |
A method of acquiring a core sample of seabed material into a core sampling tube having an upper end, a lower open end and a substantially cylindrical chamber extending therebetween, comprising the steps of urging the core sampling tube ...
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6386294 |
A hole making system for efficiently cutting a hole into a ground surface and for allowing effective removal of the plug. The inventive device includes a cutter assembly, a tamper assembly slidably positioned within the cutter assembly, ...
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6367563 |
A device for removing a non-aqueous phase liquid from a groundwater system includes a generally cylindrical push-rod defining an internal recess therein. The push-rod includes first and second end portions and an external liquid collecti...
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6363803 |
A vehicle mounted soil sampler is provided. The soil sampler is designed to be mounted inside the vehicle proximal the operator. A mounting plate secures the soil sampler to the interior of the vehicle. A opening is provided in the floor...
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