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Apparatus, systems and methods for excavating trenches in earth or soil and installing underground conduits or other media
09951495 · 2018-04-24 · ·

Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for cutting a trench in soil or earth by driving a cutter tube member through the soil or earth, injecting compressed fluid into the tube member to break up the soil and drive it through the tube member along the flow of compressed fluid, imparting dynamic vibrational forces to the tube member to assist the flow of soil therethrough, ejecting the soil from the tube member, guiding and releasing media and/or filler material into the trench, and backfilling the trench with the ejected soil.

Submersible pump
09863440 · 2018-01-09 · ·

Submersible pump which comprises: a first motor provided with a first outlet shaft; a pumping body in which an impeller is housed that is fixed to the first outlet shaft of the first motor and drivable by the latter in order to pump a process fluid from a suction mouth to a delivery mouth of the pumping body itself; a support casing fixed to the pumping body and provided, at a lower end thereof, with an inlet opening through which a flow of the process fluid is susceptible to enter into the support casing itself; a dispersion head arranged at the lower end of the support casing and drivable in order to remove detrital material, which is conveyed by the flow of the process fluid into the inlet opening of the support casing.

APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXCAVATING TRENCHES IN EARTH OR SOIL AND INSTALLING UNDERGROUND CONDUITS OR OTHER MEDIA
20170247857 · 2017-08-31 ·

Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for cutting a trench in soil or earth by driving a cutter tube member through the soil or earth, injecting compressed fluid into the tube member to break up the soil and drive it through the tube member along the flow of compressed fluid, imparting dynamic vibrational forces to the tube member to assist the flow of soil therethrough, ejecting the soil from the tube member, guiding and releasing media and/or filler material into the trench, and backfilling the trench with the ejected soil.

Apparatus, systems and methods for excavating trenches in earth or soil and installing underground conduits or other media
09708791 · 2017-07-18 ·

Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for cutting a trench in soil or earth by driving a cutter tube member through the soil or earth, injecting compressed fluid into the tube member to break up the soil and drive it through the tube member along the flow of compressed fluid, imparting dynamic vibrational forces to the tube member to assist the flow of soil therethrough, ejecting the soil from the tube member, guiding and releasing media and/or filler material into the trench, and backfilling the trench with the ejected soil.

Cutting dredger

A method for operating a cutting dredger in open water, in particular to control a ground reaction force during dredging operations, the dredger including; a floating body, an elongate cutter ladder having a cutting head at its lowerable free end for dredging, which cutter ladder is hingeably coupled to the floating body and hingeable between an upwards position and a cutting position wherein the cutting head engages matter to be cut away at the floor of a body of water.