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Abstract
Apparatus 10 for fracturing a hard material 24 includes a loading head 12 provided with a guide tube 14 for receiving a cartridge 16 containing a charge of energetic material. A flexible elongated conduit 26 is advanced and retracted through the tube 14 via a reel 88. The conduit 26 is also in communication with a stemming loader 30 which holds a supply of particulate stemming material. Tube 14 is supported by a carriage 70 which is able to slide along a member 52 by operation of a rod 76 and cylinder 78. A motor 60 is also coupled to the member 52 to effect rotation of the member 52 and thus tube 14 about an axis A which is parallel to a hole 18 drilled in the material 24. By appropriate operation of the motor 60 and rod 76, the tube 14 can be moved into and out of alignment with the hole 18. When the tube 14 is moved into alignment with the hole 18, cartridge 16 is loaded into the tube 14 and pushed through the tube 14 into the hole 18 by advancing the conduit 26. Particulate stemming material from the loader 30 is then injected through the conduit 26 into the hole 18. Tube 14 and conduit 26 are then retracted from the hole 18 and subsequently moved out of alignment therewith. The cartridge 16 may then be initiated to cause fracturing of the material 24.
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- The present application claims the benefits under 35 U.S.C. §119 of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60/359,251, of the same title, filed Feb. 20, 2002, to Carnegie-Smith, which is incorporated herein by this reference in its entirety.
- This specification relates to an apparatus and method for fracturing a hard material particularly, thought not exclusively, for application in mining and civil excavation.
- The most common underground mining rock fracturing and/or breakage processes are:
- (a) mechanical methods using rock cutting techniques using specialised equipment such as tunnel boring machines (TBM's) and impact breakers; or
- (b) drill and blast techniques where holes are drilled into a rock face, explosive charges placed in the drillholes connected up to a firing box, and once the area is clear the explosives initiated. The initiated explosives create shock waves and a rapid build up of gas pressure to cause the rock to crush, fracture and disintegrate into smaller pieces.
- A major impediment with the drill and blast technique or indeed other techniques using explosives is its cyclical nature. The technique is slow and tedious because a miner operating a drilling machine must stop drilling, get down from the machine and manually load the explosive. This means that either additional personnel or equipment is required to charge and load the explosives and initiators or productive cycle time is lost while the drill operator stops to load the drill holes as well.
- Recently in mining and civil excavation work, small charge blasting or controlled fracture techniques have been introduced as an alternative to conventional drill-and-blast, mechanical breakers, chemical expansion agents and, in some cases, hand methods. The term “small charge blasting” as used herein includes any excavation method where relatively small amounts of an energetic substance (typically a kilogram or less) is consumed for each drill hole or alternatively where a fluid is sealed in the bottom of a drill hole and pressurised in order to propagate a fracture in the material to be broken. The term “sealing” refers to the partial or total blockage of the hole to impede escape of the high-pressure gas pulse or fluid from the hole. Examples of small charge blasting devices and methods are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,765,923, 5,308,149 and 5,098,163.
- The pressurised fluid can be generated in a number of different ways including by: combustion of a propellant; an electrical discharge into a conductive fluid; or mechanical compression of the fluid. Some form of stemming seals the hole for sufficient time to enable the fluid pressure to cause fracturing of the rock.
- Small charge breakage can be highly mechanised and automated so that it can be carried out more or less continuously to increase productivity. It can also allow excavation machinery to remain near the face due to reduced flyrock discharge, and has an additional advantage of producing a relatively small seismic signature due to the small amount of blasting agent used and the lack of a shock wave.
- By and large, the systems used for automated small charge breakage have relied on either gas injectors for injecting a compressed gas pulse into a hole where a barrel of the gas injector itself acts as a stemming bar or alternately have coupled a cartridge containing energetic material directly to an end of a stemming bar which is then inserted into a hole. One problem with such systems is damage to the components inserted into the drill hole due to the energy released and pressure waves produced. Additionally, it is difficult to accurately and quickly align the gas injector or stemming bar with the drilled hole. It is typical in such system for a common boom to support both the drilling system, (eg a rail, drill steel and drifter), and a gas injector or a stemming bar. However the additional weight provided by the stemming bar or gas injector upsets the weight distribution of the boom and makes it difficult to maintain accurate alignment. This is exacerbated by the addition of a recoil mechanism which is often incorporated to reduce recoil forces on the system arising from the injector/stemming bar being held in the hole when the energetic substance is initiated.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for fracturing of hard material which attempts to alleviate the disadvantages in the above described prior art.
- According to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for fracturing a hard material, said apparatus including at least:
- a loading head provided with a guide for receiving a cartridge containing a charge of energetic material, and guiding said cartridge into a hole formed in a face of a hard material to be fractured;
- a system for advancing said cartridge along said guide to a toe of said hole; and,
- a stemming loader for loading a particulate stemming material into said hole through said guide.
- Preferably said system for advancing said cartridge includes a flexible elongated member having a first end which abuts an end of said cartridge distant said hole, and a device for advancing and retracting said flexible elongated member.
- Preferably said flexible elongated member is a conduit and constitutes a part of said stemming loader, said stemming loader further including a stemming injector for injecting particulate stemming material into a second end of said conduit.
- Preferably said stemming injector includes a blower for blowing said particulate stemming material into and along said conduit.
- Preferably said apparatus further includes an alignment mechanism for moving said guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
- In one embodiment, said alignment mechanism rotates said loading head about an axis parallel to an axis of said hole, to move the guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
- However, in an alternate embodiment, said mechanism slides said loading head along an axis perpendicular to an axis of said hole, to move the guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
- Preferably said apparatus further includes a drilling system for drilling said hole, said drilling system including a rail and a drill slidably mounted on said rail, wherein said alignment mechanism is supported on said rail.
- It is further envisaged that said loading head includes a stemming bar which can be moved into and out of alignment of said hole for insertion into said hole to support said particulate stemming.
- Preferably said stemming bar includes a transmitter for transmitting a signal into said hole for operating an initiator or a detonator contained in said cartridge.
- According to the present invention there is also provided a method of fracturing a hard material, said method including the steps of:
- providing a guide for receiving a cartridge containing a charge of energetic material;
- aligning said guide with a hole formed in a face of a hard material;
- inserting the cartridge into said guide;
- advancing said cartridge along said guide into said hole;
- injecting particulate stemming material through said guide into said hole; and,
- initiating said energetic material.
- Preferably said method of aligning includes advancing said guide into abutment with said face of said hard material.
- Preferably said step of advancing said cartridge includes pushing said cartridge along said guide.
- Preferably said step of pushing includes advancing a length of a flexible elongated member into said guide to push said cartridge along said guide into said hole.
- Preferably said step of injecting particulate material includes forming said flexible elongated member as a conduit and blowing said particulate stemming material through said conduit into said hole.
- Preferably said method further includes a step of retracting said conduit from said hole as said particulate material is blown into said hole.
- Preferably said method further includes a step of attaching said guide to a drilling system which includes a rail and a drill mounted on said rail and supporting said guide on said rail.
- Preferably said method includes providing an alignment mechanism for moving said guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
- Preferably said method further includes a step of providing a stemming bar coupled to said alignment mechanism, moving said guide out of alignment with said hole; and moving said stemming bar into alignment with said hole and into abutment with said particulate stemming in said hole.
- An embodiment of the present invention will now be described by way of example only with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
- FIG. 1 is an exploded view of a loading head incorporated into the apparatus for small charge blasting;
- FIG. 2a is an elevation view of an apparatus for small charge blasting mounted on a conventional drillrig;
- FIG. 2b is a plan view of the apparatus depicted in FIG. 2a; and,
- FIGS.3-11 depicted in sequence a method of small charge blasting using the apparatus depicted in FIGS. 1-2 b.
- Referring to the accompanying drawings and in particular, FIGS.1-3, 6 and 7 an
apparatus 10 for small charge blasting includes aloading head 12 provided with a guide in the form of atube 14 for receiving acartridge 16 containing a charge of energetic material, and guiding thecartridge 16 to acollar 18 of thehole 20 formed in aface 22 of a hard material such as a body ofrock 24 to be fractured. The term “energetic material” is used here in a general sense to include a propellant, an explosive, a pyrotechnic, and any combination thereof. Theapparatus 10 also incorporates a flexible elongated member in the form of aconduit 26 as part of a system for advancing thecartridge 16 along (and more particularly through) thetube 14 to atoe 28 of thehole 20. A stemming loader 30 (see FIG. 7) is also provided for loading a particulate stemming material, such as sized and graded aggregate material, into thehole 20 through thetube 14. - As shown in FIGS. 2a and 2 b, an embodiment of the
apparatus 10 is attached to aboom 32 of a jumbo 34 and also supports a drilling system or rig 36 comprising arail 38,drifter 40 anddrilling steel 42, all of conventional construction. - Looking at the components of the
apparatus 10 in more detail with particular reference to FIG. 1, theloading head 12 includes a swing arm 44 comprising a first relatively short member 46 which is attached at oneend 48 to oneend 50 of a secondlonger member 52 which extends perpendicular to the member 46. Anopposite end 54 of the member 46 is formed with a profiledsocket 56 for receiving asplined drive shaft 58 of amotor 60. - The
motor 60 is attached by a series of bolts 62 to amotor bracket 64. Themotor bracket 64 in turn is coupled by bolts 66 to a mountingbracket 68. The mountingbracket 68 is attached to therail 38 of thedrilling system 36. - A
carriage 70 is slidably mounted on themember 52. To facilitate the sliding motion of thecarriage 70, the carriage incorporates a number of rollers orwheels 72. Thecarriage 70 supports acradle 74 to which is attached thetube 14. - A
rod 76 of anextension cylinder 78 is attached to a bracket 80 of thecarriage 70.End 82 of thecylinder 78 opposite therod 76 is coupled by abracket 84 to an end 86 of themember 52. - The
motor 60 moves thetube 14 by way of rotation about an axis A parallel to an axis B of the hole 18 (see FIG. 5) into and out of alignment with thehole 18. Further, theextension cylinder 78 can be operated to move thecarriage 70 along themember 52 and thus lineally advance and retract thetube 14 from theface 22. The combination of themotor 60, swing arm 44,rod 76,extension cylinder 78 andcarriage 70 constitute an alignment mechanism for moving thetube 14 into and out of alignment with thehole 18. - Referring to FIG. 7, it can be seen that the
conduit 26 which is used for advancing or pushing thecartridge 16 is wound on areel 88 which can be operated to advance or pay out the conduit 26 (i.e. feed it into and along the tube 14) and to retract or reel it in. When thereel 88 pays out theconduit 26, one end of theconduit 26 pushes thecartridge 16 through thetube 14 towards and into thehole 20. However, thetube 26 also forms part of the stemmingloader 30 used for loading particulate stemming material into thehole 20. In this regard, a second end of thetube 26 can be selectively placed into fluid communication with a stemmingfeed pipe 90 into which is fed particulate stemming material from a stemming kettle 92. An end of the stemmingfeed pipe 90 upstream of the kettle 92 is coupled to ablower 94. Theblower 94 blows air into the stemmingfeed pipe 90 in which is entrained the particulate stemming material from the kettle 92. Thus, theblower 94 blows the particulate stemming material through theconduit 26 and thetube 14 into thehole 20. - As also shown in FIG. 7, an upstream end96 of the
tube 14 is provided with abreach 98 for facilitating loading ofcartridges 16 into thetube 14. Thebreach 98 is held by abreach support 100. In this particular embodiment, thecartridge 16 is pre-coupled to an initiator line 192 which is unwound from areel 104. - As depicted in FIGS. 2a and 2 b, the
apparatus 10 is attached to a jumbo 34 with theloading head 12 attached by mountingbracket 68 to rail 38 of thedrilling system 36. The stemming kettle 92 and reel 88 are mounted to the rear of the jumbo 34. Thebreach 98 is located in a position where an operator of the jumbo 34 can easily manually load thecartridges 16 into thebreach 98. Thetube 14 has a relatively shortrigid section 106 which is supported by thecradle 74 and aflexible hose portion 108 attached to an upstream end of therigid section 106. Thebreach 98 is provided in thehose portion 108. - The operation of the
apparatus 10 will now be described with particular reference to FIGS. 3-11. - Referring to FIG. 3, the jumbo34 (not shown in this Figure) is operated in a conventional manner to drill the
hole 20 into the body ofrock 24. As is known in the art, during this process, thedrifter 40 is advanced along therail 38 to advance thedrilling steel 42 into the body ofrock 24 producing ahole 20. While this is happening, theloading head 12, which is coupled to therail 36 by thebracket 68, is disposed so that thetube 14 is out of axial alignment with and lineally spaced from, theface 22. - After the
hole 20 has been drilled to a required depth, the jumbo operator operates thedrilling system 36 so as to retract thedrilling steel 42 from thehole 20. This is achieved by sliding thedrifter 40 along therail 38 away from theface 22 as shown in FIG. 4. - Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the
motor 60 is operated to rotate the swing arm 44 (and thus the tube 14) about axis A, so that thetube 14 is in axial alignment with thehole 20. At this stage, thetube 14 remains spaced from theface 22. - The
extension cylinder 78 is now operated to extend therod 76 thereby sliding thecarriage 70 along themember 52 and lineally advancing thetube 14 to thecollar 18 of thehole 20, as shown in FIG. 6. - Thereafter, a
cartridge 16, to which aninitiator lead 102 has been attached, is inserted into thebreach 98. The breach is then closed. Thebreach 98 when closed is provided with an opening to allow thelead 102 to feed into thehose portion 108. Next, thereel 88 is operated to pay out or advance theconduit 26 so that one end of theconduit 26 abuts thecartridge 16 and pushes it along thehose portion 108 andrigid portion 106 of thetube 14 into thehole 20 and to thetoe 28 of thehole 20. - With the
conduit 26 still in thehole 20, particulate stemmingmaterial 110 from the stemming kettle 92 is blown through theconduit 26, and thus thetube 14, into thehole 20. Thereel 88 is operated to retract or reel in theconduit 26 from thehole 20 as the stemming material flows through it. Accordingly, thehole 20 from thecartridge 16 to thecollar 18 is filled with particulate stemmingmaterial 110. The injection of stemming material ceases when the packed stemming reaches thecollar 18 of thehole 20. Theextension cylinder 78 is again then operated to retract therod 76 sliding thecarriage 72 along themember 52 away from theface 22 thus similarly lineally retracting thetube 14 from theface 22, as depicted in FIG. 8. Thelead 102 is then cut. Themotor 60 is operated to rotate the swing arm 44 about axis A to rotate or swing thetube 14 out of axial alignment with thehole 20, as depicted in FIG. 9. This action will cause at least a part of the length of thelead 102 to pull out of thetube 14. If any portion of thelead 102 remains within thetube 14 it can easily be pulled out manually so that it is free of theapparatus 10. Theboom 32 of the jumbo is then retracted to further space theapparatus 10 from theface 22, as shown in FIG. 10. - Finally, the
lead 102 is attached to a battery or other type of energy source which is then operated to cause initiation of the energetic material within thecartridge 16. This results in a fracturing of the rock in the vicinity of thehole 20 as schematically illustrated in FIG. 11. In particular, if the energetic material is a propellant its initiation can result in a penetrating core fracture of the rock. The fractured rock if not released from theface 22 can be removed by an impact breaker. - The above process can then be repeated as required to cause further fracturing of the
rock 24. - Now that an embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail it would be apparent to those skilled in the relevant arts that numerous modifications and variations may be made without departing from the basic inventive concepts. For example, in the illustrated embodiment, the
cartridge 16 is attached to aninitiator lead 102 which is physically coupled to a battery or some other source for providing power to initiate the energetic substance held within thecartridge 16. However in a further embodiment, thecartridge 16 may be detonated by radio waves in which case theinitiator lead 102 is not required. However in such an embodiment thecartridge 16 may (though not necessarily) be provided with a short antenna for receiving the radio signals. More particularly, theapparatus 10 may further include a stemming bar coupled to a second swing arm andsecond carriage 70 which can be rotated into axial alignment with thehole 20 and then lineally advanced to bear on or support theparticulate stemming material 110 in thehole 20 where the stemming bar includes some form of transmitter for transmitting a radio signal into the hole to provide either initiation signals/commands which can be received by a circuit in thecartridge 16 to initiate the energetic material. Indeed, the stemming bar and an initiator in the cartridge can be configured in a manner as set out in Applicant's Patent Application No. PCT/AU98/00929 (the contents of which is incorporated herein by way of reference) so that a signal is transmitted via that stemming bar also provide operational power for the initiator. - In a further variation, rather than rotating the tube14 (and/or stemming bar if provided) into and out of axial alignment with the
hole 20, the tube 14 (and stemming bar) can be moved lineally along an axis perpendicular to the axis B of thehole 20 into and out of axial alignment with thehole 20. - All such modifications and variations together with others that would be obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art are deemed to be within the scope of the present invention the nature of which is to be determined from the above description and appended claims.
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1. An apparatus for fracturing a hard material, said apparatus including at least:
a loading head provided with a guide for receiving a cartridge containing a charge of energetic material, and guiding said cartridge into a hole formed in a face of a hard material to be fractured;
a system for advancing said cartridge along said guide to a toe of said hole; and,
a stemming loader for loading a particulate stemming material into said hole through said guide.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said system for advancing said cartridge includes a flexible elongated member having a first end which abuts an end of said cartridge distant said hole, and a device for advancing and retracting said flexible elongated member.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said flexible elongated member is a conduit and constitutes a part of said stemming loader, said stemming loader further including a stemming injector for injecting particulate stemming material into a second end of said conduit.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3 wherein said stemming injector includes a blower for blowing said particulate stemming material into and along said conduit.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 further including an alignment mechanism for moving said guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5 wherein said alignment mechanism rotates said loading head about an axis parallel to an axis of said hole, to move the guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
7. The apparatus according to claim 5 wherein said alignment mechanism slides said loading head along an axis perpendicular to an axis of said hole, to move the guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
8. The apparatus according to claim 5 further including a drilling system for drilling said hole, said drilling system including a rail and a drill slidably mounted on said rail, wherein said alignment mechanism is supported on said rail.
9. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said loading head includes a stemming bar which can be moved into and out of alignment of said hole for insertion into said hole to support said particulate stemming.
10. The apparatus according to claim 9 wherein said stemming bar includes a transmitter for transmitting a signal into said hole for operating an initiator or a detonator contained in said cartridge.
11. A method of fracturing a hard material, said method including the steps of:
providing a guide for receiving a cartridge containing a charge of energetic material;
aligning said guide with a hole formed in a face of a hard material;
inserting the cartridge into said guide;
advancing said cartridge along said guide into said hole;
injecting particulate stemming material through said guide into said hole; and,
initiating said energetic material.
12. The method according to claim 11 including the step of advancing said guide into abutment with said face of said hard material.
13. The method according to claim 11 wherein said step of advancing said cartridge includes pushing said cartridge along said guide.
14. The method according to claim 13 wherein said step of pushing includes advancing a length of a flexible elongated member into said guide to push said cartridge along said guide into said hole.
15. The method according to claim 14 wherein said step of injecting particulate material includes forming said flexible elongated member as a conduit and blowing said particulate stemming material through said conduit into said hole.
16. The method according to claim 15 including a step of retracting said conduit from said hole as said particulate material is blown into said hole.
17. The method according to claim 11 including a step of attaching said guide to a drilling system which includes a rail and a drill mounted on said rail and supporting said guide on said rail.
18. The method according to claim 11 including the step of providing an alignment mechanism for moving said guide into and out of alignment with said hole.
19. The method according to claim 18 including a step of providing a stemming bar coupled to said alignment mechanism, moving said guide out of alignment with said hole; and moving said stemming bar into alignment with said hole and into abutment with said particulate stemming in said hole.
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