Technique for establishing and recording a boring tool path using a survey reference level
US5764062A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 11, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jun 9, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 11, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V3/165
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An overall process in which a boring tool is moved through the ground within a given region along a particular path from a specific starting point is disclosed herein. A method of establishing and graphically recording the location of at least a portion of the particular path taken by the boring tool within the given region is also disclosed herein along with and with respect to a reference path which may change with time and vertical survey reference path which will remain unchanged with time.
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