DEVICE FOR ORIENTATION OF TUNNELLING SYSTEM DURING CONSTRUCTION OF CURVED TUNNELS Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC E21D9/93 E21C35/24 G01C7/06 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: device for orientation of tunnelling system during construction of curved tunnels includes the units located in line of sight and at the specified distance from each other, the end ones of which are rigidly fixed, one - in starting tube, and the other one - on tunnelling shield, intermediate units are installed inside the erected part of the tunnel, each unit is equipped with a photo sensor, light emitting element and roll sensor, also, the device is provided with sensor of amount of advance and data transfer channels between the device assemblies and computing unit with a display; at that, each unit is equipped with a plate with sector symmetric light-tight slots, plate is located on motor shaft the axis of which coincides with the direction of tunnelling operation, on both sides of the plate in horizontal and vertical planes passing through motor axis there installed are light-emitting elements directed to the plate side; at that, each unit contains differently directed photo sensors oriented parallel to motor axis.

EFFECT: improving the orientation accuracy of tunnelling system and operating characteristics of the device, and increasing standardisation of the device components.

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