US 12,110,795 B2
Device for laying pipes in the ground
Dominik Haritzer, Heiligenblut (AT)
Assigned to SPIDERPLOW ROHR—& KABELPFLUG GMBH, Mühldorf am Inn (DE)
Appl. No. 18/557,164
Filed by Spiderplow Rohr- & Kabelpflug GmbH, Mühldorf am Inn (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 28, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/061201
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 25, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/228670, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0263524 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. E02F 3/06 (2006.01); E21B 7/04 (2006.01); E21B 7/20 (2006.01); E21B 7/26 (2006.01); F16L 1/028 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 7/20 (2013.01) [E21B 7/04 (2013.01); E21B 7/265 (2013.01); F16L 1/028 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for laying pipes in the ground, the device comprising—a ploughshare with a ploughshare shoe, wherein the
ploughshare shoe has at least one displacement element protruding in a laying direction,
a drill, which drill is connected to the ploughshare and comprises at least one drill head arranged in a drill head housing section of a drill housing and a conveyor device arranged in a conveyor housing section (8a) of the drill housing for removing drilled material in the form of soil grasped by the drill head to the surface, and
a connection device for connecting a pipe to be laid to the drill, wherein
the ploughshare is arranged behind the drill when viewed in the laying direction so that the soil is already loosened by the ploughshare and/or the displacement element before it is grasped by the drill, the laying direction being a direction in which the ploughshare and the drill are configured to be pulled through the soil.