Method of consolidating cracks in a structure
AssigneeHilti Aktiengesellschaft
InventorArno P. O. Schmidt
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Abstract
A method of injecting a hardenable mass into cracks in a structure includes drilling a borehole into the structure traversing the cracks. Inserting a tubular member into the borehole with the tubular member having an outside diameter smaller than the diameter of the borehole. Filling the gap between the borehole surface and the tubular member with a hardenable mass forming a seal of the gap at the opening into the borehole. After the seal has hardened, injecting a hardenable mass into the tubular member so that it flows into the borehole and enters into the cracks in the structure.
Claims4
Method of injecting a hardenable flowable mass into cracks and the like within a structure comprising the steps of drilling an axially extending borehole into the structure traversing the cracks with the borehole having a base within the structure and an opening into the structure, inserting a filling member including an axially extending tubular member into the borehole with the tubular member having a smaller outside diameter than the borehole and with the tubular member having an open first end located adjacent the base of the borehole and a second end projecting out of the borehole with an annular gap formed within the borehole between the tubular member and the surface of the borehole, introducing a flowable hardenable sealing mass into the gap between the tubular member and the surface of the borehole for forming a seal of the gap at the opening into the borehole when the sealing mass hardens, and, after the hardening of the sealing mass in the gap, injecting a flowable hardenable mass into the tubular member for flow through the tubular member into the annular gap so that the flowable mass enters into the cracks and the like.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.