The present invention provides a retainer device 1 for retaining or holding an anchor rod 11 of a rock anchor, especially a self-drilling anchor, in a hole H drilled above horizontal. The retainer device 1 comprises: a body portion 2 configured to be mounted on the anchor rod 11, e.g., on an outer or external periphery of the anchor rod, and at least one locking arm or tab 6, 7 that projects from the body portion 2 in a direction transverse to a longitudinal extent of the anchor rod 11. The body portion 2 is configured to engage an abutment or shoulder on the outer or external periphery of the anchor rod to prevent its movement relative to the anchor rod 11 in use, and the at least one arm or tab 6, 7 is configured to deform so as to engage and bear against an inner wall W of the hole H when the retainer device 1 mounted on the anchor rod 11 is driven into the hole H. The invention also relates to a rock anchor system 10, comprising: at least one elongate anchor rod 11; a drill bit 12 configured for attachment to one end region 13 of the elongate anchor rod 11 for drilling the anchor rod 11 into rock strata R; and at least one retainer device 1 according to the invention described above for retaining or holding the anchor rod 11 in a hole H drilled in the rock strata R above horizontal. The invention also provides a method for installing a rock anchor.

A cement silo and feed apparatus for feeding cement to the cement silo of a mining machine includes a receptacle for receiving cement, a transfer tube connected at a first end of the receptacle for guiding the cement from the receptacle to the cement silo connectable at a second end of the transfer tube and transfer means arranged in connection with the transfer tube and arranged to move cement within the transfer tube from the receptacle to the cement silo. The transfer tube includes at least one transfer tube section having a tube-like inner space for cement to be transferred.

Amorphous calcium carbonate is included in a fire-resistant inorganic mortar system for a fire-resistant chemical fastening of anchors and post-installed reinforcing bars in mineral substrates. The system includes a curable aluminous cement component A and an initiator component B for initiating the curing process. The component A includes at least one blocking agent selected from the group of phosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, phosphorous acid and phosphoric acids, at least one plasticizer and water. The component B includes an initiator, at least one retarder, at least one mineral filler and water. Moreover, amorphous calcium carbonate in a fire-resistant inorganic mortar increases load values. Also, a method is used for a fire-resistant chemical fastening of anchors and post-installed reinforcing bars in mineral substrates, such as structures made of brickwork, concrete, pervious concrete or natural stone.

A self-drilling differential grouting combined bolt and method of anchoring the same are described. The bolt consists essentially of a drill (1), a grouting pipe (2), a spindle (3), a bolt head mechanism and a bolt tail mechanism, wherein the bolt head mechanism comprises a fixed ring (4), a slip ring (7), a limiting pipe (6) and several pairs of driven linkages (501) and driving linkages (502); and the bolt tail mechanism comprises a bolt disc (11), a connecting cap (12), a spring (13) and a nut (14). The method of anchoring includes the steps of hole drilling, hole expanding at inner anchor end, differential grouting rock bolt fastening.

Provided is a mounting method for an extensible reaming self-anchoring anchor rod, which is especially applicable to roadway construction in coal mines. A big helical structure is arranged on two rod sections of a sectional type anchor rod, a simple drill bit drills and reams a bore and cuts the coal mass in one operation, the outer diameter of the simple drill bit is smaller than the outer diameter of the big helical rod body, and the big helical structure accomplishes secondary reaming, self-drilling and self-anchoring in the drilling process; the big helical structure inhibits propagation and development of sheet cracks of the coal wall in the radial direction, and is embedded in the coal mass through a self-stabilization process of the rock mass.

Provided is a mounting method for an extensible reaming self-anchoring anchor rod, which is especially applicable to roadway construction in coal mines. A big helical structure is arranged on two rod sections of a sectional type anchor rod, a simple drill bit drills and reams a bore and cuts the coal mass in one operation, the outer diameter of the simple drill bit is smaller than the outer diameter of the big helical rod body, and the big helical structure accomplishes secondary reaming, self-drilling and self-anchoring in the drilling process; the big helical structure inhibits propagation and development of sheet cracks of the coal wall in the radial direction, and is embedded in the coal mass through a self-stabilization process of the rock mass.

A self-drilling differential grouting combined bolt, as described consists essentially of a drill (1), a grouting pipe (2), a spindle (3), a bolt head mechanism and a bolt tail mechanism, wherein the bolt head mechanism comprises a fixed ring (4), a slip ring (7), a limiting pipe (6) and several pairs of driven linkages (501) and driving linkages (502); and the bolt tail mechanism comprises a bolt disc (11), a connecting cap (12), a spring (13) and a nut (14), the bolt disc (11) is sleeved on a rear end of the grouting pipe (2), the connecting cap (12) is passed through by the spindle (3) and blocks off the rear end of the grouting pipe (2), the connecting cap (12) is provided with a grouting hole in communication with the grouting channel in the grouting pipe (2), and a grouting hole and an air vent are provided in the bolt disc (11).

The present invention relates to a support method of preset internal cable for in-situ tunnel expansion project, comprising a cable, lockset and an anchoring agent, wherein before the excavation of the newly-built tunnel, a borehole is drilled into the surrounding rock from the in-situ tunnel, and the cable is installed in the borehole and pre-stressed, so as to play a supporting role at the moment of excavation of the newly-built tunnel. The cable is fixed in the depth of the surrounding rock by the anchoring agent, and the lockset of the cable is set at the position of the excavation contour line of the newly-built tunnel inside the surrounding rock. The present invention provides a method that does not interfere with the excavation construction and can effectively support the surrounding rock of the expanded tunnel in advance. It breaks through the excavation first and then supports model in the previous tunnel construction, and uses the space of the in-situ tunnel for pre-support, and by applying prestress, the deformation of surrounding rock can be controlled to the maximum extent.

A zonal bolt-grouting support device and method for cataclastic rock mass large deformation of a high-stress tunnel, the method includes: drill holes in surrounding rock of a tunnel against a tunnel face after rock mass excavation, install high-strength prestressed anchor members, apply a preload to anchor bolts when expansion anchoring agent is fully expanded and has a certain strength, and zonally grout the surrounding rock after stress adjustment. The high-strength prestressed anchor member comprises an anchor bolt, an expansion anchor agent, a decoupling material, a grouting device, a reverse anti-skid device, etc. The grouting device consists of a shallow grouting steel pipe, a deep grouting steel pipe and a grouting stop valve, and the grouting steel pipe is arranged side by side with the anchor bolt in a drill hole. The technical proposal of the invention effectively inhibits the large deformation of a cataclastic rock mass.

A fastening arrangement is made with a screw that has a shank, at least one thread helix being arranged on the shank, and a cured compound. The screw is arranged in a hole in a substrate, and a gap between the shank and the hole wall is filled with a cured aluminate-containing inorganic composition.