Mining · Tunnelling · Excavation support

What holds the ground up: we make it.

Rock bolts, expansion shells, plates, threaded bar anchors, couplers, nuts, bevel washers and soil nails, made in Houston to your drawings and specifications.

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    Innovation Fasteners · mining & ground support

    Ground support, taken apart to show what we make

    A 20 ft length of mine drift, 18 ft wide, bolted on a 4 ft × 4 ft pattern: 5/8 in. mechanical bolts with expansion shells, No. 6 (3/4 in.) resin rebar bolts with dome plates, cable bolts between the rows, rib bolts, roof straps and welded wire mesh. Beside it, an anchored retaining wall: No. 8 threaded bar tiebacks through a waler, and a soil nail wall. It comes apart collar first: the nuts spin off, the plates, straps and mesh come away, and the bolts, shells and plugs draw out of their holes. At the wall the anchor nuts, bevel washers and plates come off, the bars draw out and the couplers part. The parts we make are in colour; strand, wedges and friction stabilisers are not ours and stay blueprint. Press Solid view for rock, steel and timber, or Cutaway to see each bolt full length in its hole and a tieback along its whole length.

    In colour · parts Innovation Fasteners makes

    What's highlighted, and where it goes

    Mine roof & ribs

    Mechanical rock bolts

    Headed 5/8 in. bar with a 5/8-11 thread at the top end (ASTM F432). Turning the head draws the plug into the shell and clamps the plate to the roof.

    Expansion shells & plugs

    The anchor at the back of the hole: a serrated shell spread against the rock by a tapered, threaded plug.

    Bearing plates & hardened washers

    A plate goes on with every roof bolt, at least 6 in. square against the roof (30 CFR 75.204), with a 2 in. hardened washer under the head.

    Resin rebar bolts

    No. 6 (3/4 in.) threaded rebar grouted along its full length in resin.

    Dome plates, spherical seats & nuts

    Let the nut bear square on a bolt that is not square to the roof. Dome, shear-pin or plain hex nuts.

    Cable bolt plates

    Plates under the barrel-and-wedge anchors of the cable bolts. The strand and wedges are not ours.

    Rib bolts, plates & nuts

    Shorter threaded rebar bolts set level into each rib, with the same plate, seat and nut.

    Retaining wall

    Threaded bar ground anchors

    No. 8 continuous-thread bar tiebacks at 15° through the waler, with a 10 ft unbonded length and a grouted bond length.

    Bar couplers

    Threaded sleeves joining two bar lengths end to end.

    Anchor plates & bevel washers

    The plate spans the waler channels; the bevel washer takes up the 15° between the plate and the bar.

    Anchor nuts & washers

    Hex nuts and hardened washers that hold each anchor against the wall.

    Soil nail bars

    No. 8 threaded bars grouted along their full length at 15°, on 5 ft centres.

    Soil nail plates, bevel washers & nuts

    8 in. square, 3/4 in. bearing plates with headed studs, bevel washers, flat washers and hex nuts.

    Rock bolts, plates, threaded bar anchors and soil nail hardware to your drawing. Send us your drawings and material spec.

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    A generic layout, not any mine's roof control plan or any wall's design. Bolt diameters, threads, the hardened washer and the plate rule follow ASTM F432 and 30 CFR 75.204; bar sizes follow ASTM A615; the tieback angle and unbonded length and the soil nail angle, spacing and plate size follow the FHWA manuals. Everything else is typical: bolt and nail lengths, hole sizes, the mix of bolt types in one drift, cable bolts, straps and mesh, and the counts. The drift, shells, plates, waler, piles and facing are illustrative typical proportions, and the tieback bond length is drawn short. Your drawings and your ground control plan govern. We manufacture to your drawings and specifications.

    Drawn to ASTM F432 (roof and rock bolts and accessories), 30 CFR 75.204 and 75.222 (roof bolting), ASTM A615 and A722 (threaded bar), and the FHWA ground anchor (GEC 4) and soil nail (GEC 7) manuals.

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