TRENCHLESS PIPELINE REPLACEMENT DEVICE Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC F16L1/28 E02F5/18 

FIELD: machine building.

SUBSTANCE: device includes a pipe-destructing working element with two disc knives, a reamer for enlarging the well diameter, an attachment device of a new plastic pipeline and a tie-rod element in the form of a rope with elements installed on it. Each element installed on the rope is made in the form of a detachable sleeve with three equally spaced radially oriented cylindrical rods, in each of which a fork with a ball is installed so that fixed radial movement is possible. A radial slot is made throughout the length of detachable sleeve between adjacent cylindrical bars; a retaining screw is inserted in a threaded hole in the middle of the above radial radial slot. The pipe-destructing working element is made in the form of an assembled two-section framework, the centre of the rear end face of which has a spherical slot. The reamer is made in the form of an assembled two-section flattened cone, the centres of both end faces of which have spherical slots The rear end face of the pipe-destructing working element and the front end face of the reamer are connected by means of a hinge joint consisting of a pin, on both ends of which balls are installed by means of a thread The rear end face of the reamer and the attachment device of a new plastic pipeline are connected by means of a hinge joint consisting of an additional pin, on one end of which a ball is installed by means of thread and inserted in the spherical slot of the rear end face of the reamer, and the other end of the additional pin is installed in an axial hole of the attachment device of the new pipeline and fixed with a nut

EFFECT: improving reliability of hinge joints and a tie-rod element at passage of curved sections of pipelines.

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