Lost Motion Patents (Class 279/19)
  • Patent number: 11691204
    Abstract: A drill bit for chiseling stone includes an impact face at an insertion end of the drill bit, a hollow shank, where a delivery passage is defined within the hollow shank, and a drill head, where the drill head has, at a front end of the drill head, a cutting edge, an intake opening, and an intake passage. The intake passage connects the intake opening to the delivery passage. A cross section of the intake passage increases from the intake opening to the delivery passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktlengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Bohn, Roland Foser, Markus Hartmann, Bastian Pluemacher
  • Patent number: 11597046
    Abstract: A vacuum dust extraction system includes a snorkel coupled to the implement end of an air tool, a dust bellows surrounding the air tool's implement and fastened to the outboard end of the snorkel, a pneumatically powered water filtration industrial vacuum, and a suction hose coupling the snorkel to the vacuum. The apparatus features an improved coupling arrangement for attaching the snorkel to the barrel of the tool driver that permits the apparatus to work with a wide assortment of air tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: G.A.W. Inc
    Inventors: Robert Arthur, Kenan Wollborg, Nicholas Russell
  • Patent number: 10875169
    Abstract: A bit retention device has an upper support member having an inner surface and an outer surface. A lower support member fixed to the upper support member. A stationary plate is mounted to the inner surface of the upper support member. A clamp plate opposes the stationary plate and is spring biased toward the stationary plate and slidably moveable between the upper support member and the lower support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Schaub, James R. Parks, Richard J. Heavel
  • Patent number: 10286536
    Abstract: A tool holder system with first and second spindles, a locking ring slideably mounted on the first spindle, a first biasing mechanism biasing the locking ring towards an indentation position where the locking ring surrounds an indentation on the first spindle, and a moveable locking element mounted on the second spindle, the locking element being engageable to the indentation. The first spindle can be unlocked from the second spindle by sliding the locking ring away from the indentation position against the biasing force of the biasing mechanism and towards the second spindle. Such action moves the locking element to disengage from the indentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Suthan Mohanasundaram, Norbert Hahn, Tobias Heep
  • Patent number: 10030449
    Abstract: An arrangement at a drill includes a drill bit intended to be inserted at its neck into a chuck in a down-the-hole drill, a control means for guiding the drill and a lining pipe, a coupling arrangement in the form of a bayonet coupling or similar with which the drill can be coupled to the control means in a manner that allows them to be separated and that in its freed condition allows the drill, together with the down-the-hole drill, to be withdrawn through the lining pipe, a flushing passage for the supply of flushing agent in front of the drill and an evacuation passage for the removal of drilling cuttings together the flushing agent. It also includes a casing shoe that can be applied at the forward end of the lining pipe and a contact surface arranged at a stationary part of the down-the-hole drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LKAB WASSARA AB
    Inventor: Fredrik Egerström
  • Patent number: 10022851
    Abstract: A bit retention device has an upper support member having an inner surface and an outer surface. A lower support member fixed to the upper support member. A stationary plate is mounted to the inner surface of the upper support member. A clamp plate opposes the stationary plate and is spring biased toward the stationary plate and slidably moveable between the upper support member and the lower support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Schaub, James R. Parks, Richard J. Heavel
  • Patent number: 9086091
    Abstract: A bearing assembly for a rock drill includes a housing and a bearing. The housing includes a cylindrical tail portion and a head portion having a multi-sided outer surface configured to inhibit a rotation of the bearing assembly relative to the rock drill. The bearing is positioned within the housing and configured to receive a rotatable component of the rock drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC
    Inventors: Stuart A. Connell, Larry W. McClure
  • Patent number: 8590905
    Abstract: Connection of a bit with two balls is enabled while high operability of attachment and detachment of the bit is maintained. A pressing ring 23 is held at the advance position together with an operation sleeve 22 by a guide washer 24 forced by a coil spring 25. When the rear end of the bit is inserted into a tool holder 8, the balls 27, 27 that are rolled rearward by the contact of the rear end of the bit are pushed in between the pressing ring 23 and the guide washer 24 in order, and the balls 27, 27 can be retracted from the tool holder 8 in the state where the pressing ring 23 is held at the advance position by the tilt of the guide washer 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya
  • Patent number: 8459658
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool for at least percussively driving a working tool (2) along a percussion axis (A) and including a chuck (4) for receiving the working tool (2) and including a receiving sleeve (6, 6?) fixedly connected with the chuck (4) for joint rotation therewith and for limited axial displacement relative thereto, at least one locking member (7) radially displaceably supported in the receiving sleeve (6, 6?) for axially securing therein a shank (3, 3?) of the working tool (2) insertable in to the receiving sleeve (6, 6?), and an axially extending anvil (8) securable in the receiving sleeve (6, 6?) for closing a power tool side end of the receiving sleeve (6, 6?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexander Cycon
  • Publication number: 20130056940
    Abstract: A tool receptacle is disclosed. The tool receptacle has a receiving sleeve which has a prismatic or cylindrical cavity for receiving a tool and an elongated hole for receiving a locking body. The elongated hole has a closed edge formed of two opposing longitudinal sides at a constant distance and two end sides completing the elongated hole. An extension along the working axis of at least one of the end sides is less than half of the constant distance of the opposing longitudinal sides. A groove running parallel to the working axis is provided on an inner surface of the receptacle sleeve. The groove is disposed in an extending manner at the elongated hole on the inner surface along the working axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Doberenz, Andres Wellmann Jelic
  • Publication number: 20120187639
    Abstract: A holding device for hand machine tools, in particular a drill and/or a chipping hammer holding device, includes a hammer tube and at least one blocking body, which, when installed, connects the hammer tube to at least one additional holding component. The blocking body is provided with at least one blocking surface that is curved around at least one load tipping axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Steinke, Lars Schmid, Johannes Schnitzler, Gerhard Meixner, Christian Koepf, Jan Koalick
  • Publication number: 20120144969
    Abstract: There are provided a workpiece and a gripping mechanism capable of shortening the handling time not involved in machining, shortening the overall time required for producing a plurality of finished members, accurately positioning the workpiece even if there is an axial dimension error, lessening waste of a material and reducing the burden of disposal of discharged chips. The workpiece has a shape in which plural raw blanks that become products by material removal are integrally molded. The gripping mechanism comprises a free moving means that relatively and freely moves a gripper and the workpiece, and a positioning means for defining the axial gripping position of the gripper and the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicants: CITIZEN MACHINERY MIYANO CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nakaya Takaichi, Hiroshi Kasuya
  • Patent number: 8172235
    Abstract: Connection of a bit with two balls is enabled while high operability of attachment and detachment of the bit is maintained. A pressing ring 23 is held at the advance position together with an operation sleeve 22 by a guide washer 24 forced by a coil spring 25. When the rear end of the bit is inserted into a tool holder 8, the balls 27, 27 that are rolled rearward by the contact of the rear end of the bit are pushed in between the pressing ring 23 and the guide washer 24 in order, and the balls 27, 27 can be retracted from the tool holder 8 in the state where the pressing ring 23 is held at the advance position by the tilt of the guide washer 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya
  • Patent number: 7819203
    Abstract: An impact force is transmitted to a tip end tool due to the changes of the air pressure within an air chamber generated by the reciprocal operation of the piston within a striker. The attachment portion of a tip end tool holding member for holding the tip end tool to a cylinder casing is sandwiched between buffers disposed in the two directions of the axial direction of the tool thereby to elastically support the tip end tool holding member to be movable in the two directions of the axial direction of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sato, Tsukasa Suzuura, Takahiro Hirai
  • Publication number: 20100264608
    Abstract: A chuck assembly, an assembly for an earth-boring drill assembly, and a method of retaining a drill bit for an earth-boring drill assembly, the drill assembly including a casing. The assembly includes a drill bit having a generally cylindrical head, a chuck connectable to the casing and operable to support the bit, the chuck having an outer surface with a radially-outwardly extending chuck ridge, an axially-extending first slot being defined in the ridge, a sleeve having an inner surface with a radially-inwardly extending sleeve ridge engageable with the chuck ridge to limit axial movement of the sleeve relative to the chuck, the sleeve having a first lug supported on the inner surface, the first lug being positionable in the first slot to limit relative rotational movement between the sleeve and the chuck. The assembly may also include a retainer assembly provided between the sleeve and the bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Dale Richard Wolfer
  • Patent number: 7712746
    Abstract: A chuck, which is releasably connectable with a tool spindle (1), includes a guide sleeve (3) having a plurality of openings (4), a plurality of locking elements formed as tilt segments (5) each having an axially fixedly supported, support part (7) and a radially tiltable locking part (8) extendable into a respective opening (4) of the guide sleeve (3) for engaging the tool spindle (1), and a manually displaceable locking sleeve (6) for radially locking the locking elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erwin Manschitz, Udo Hauptmann
  • Patent number: 7533889
    Abstract: A fitting device for a machine tool has a tool holder for a hand-guided machine tool, for receiving insertion tools. The tool holder forms a releasable sliding fit with a drive tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Otto Baumann, Thomas Berndhardt, Hardy Schmid, Sven Kageler
  • Patent number: 7527272
    Abstract: A chuck is described, in particular for a hammer drill or chisel hammer, having a chuck body having an insertion opening for holding a tool shank, and a locking element for axially locking the tool shank in the insertion opening, the locking element being movable between a locked position and an unlocked position, and having an arresting pin, mounted in the locking element and radially displaceable between an arresting position and a release position, which axially arrests the locking element in its arresting position and axially releases it in its release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Heinz Schnerring, Joerg Friedrich, Andreas Strasser, Michael Mayer, Werner Huser
  • Publication number: 20090051129
    Abstract: A replaceable chuck for a percussion hand-held power tool (3) for applying axial blows to a working tool receivable in the chuck, includes a release sleeve (4) axially displaceable relative to the base body (6) against a spring-biasing force and including an inwardly located locking element (11) for formlockingly securing the chuck on a power tool spindle (15) with locking elements (12) extending through respective openings (13) formed in a base body (6) and engageable in associated recesses (14) of the power tool spindle (15), and a formlocking displacement guide (5) that provides for displacement of the release sleeve (4) relative to the base body (6) and includes, along its axial extension, a tangential section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventor: Gunter Haas
  • Patent number: 7360606
    Abstract: A hand power tool has a striking element via which a tool (10) in a tool holder (12) can be driven in striking fashion, which the tool holder can be detachably secured—via its body (14)—to a drive part (16) via at least one locking element (18), which the locking element, in its engaged position, is capable of being fixed in position radially by a retaining element (20), which the retaining element is capable of being automatically guided by means of an operating element (22) out of its locked position into a release position that radially releases the locking element (18) in order to release the tool holder (12), whereby the retaining element (20) is capable of being moved by a corresponding component (14) into its release position against a spring force of a spring element (24) when the tool holder (12) is pushed onto the drive part (18), wherein the retaining element (20) is captively held on the drive part (16) and is capable of being guided into its release position by the operating element (22) in the p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Saur, Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek
  • Patent number: 7338051
    Abstract: A tool holder (1) for a rotary hammer which has a tube like tool holder main body (10) having a side wall formed with through holes (11) for receiving corresponding locking bodies (12) and formed with additional through holes (40). The tool holder includes hardened metal driving ribs (46) each located on an insert (42) and the inserts are fitted within the additional through holes (40) so that the ribs extends axially and radially inwardly of the radially inward facing surface of the holder body. The locking bodies (12) are arranged to releaseably engage a corresponding axial closed groove of a tool or bit inserted within the tool holder and the ribs (46) are arranged to releaseably engaging a corresponding axial rearwardly open driving grooves of a tool or bit inserted within the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Achim Buchholz
  • Patent number: 7325811
    Abstract: A chuck (2) for a hand-held power tool (4), which is connected with a motor-driven spindle (6) of the power tool for joint rotation therewith, includes a locking device for securing a shaft section of an exchangeable working tool and having a circular cross-section in the chuck (2) without a possibility of axial displacement and rotation relative to the chuck (2), with the locking device having a clamping element (12; 34) for securing the shaft section (8), and an element (18) for transmitting rotation to the shaft section (8) and rotationally separated from the clamping element (12; 34) by a rotary bearing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Hartmann, Martin Noser, Guenther Sanchen
  • Patent number: 7258350
    Abstract: A chuck for receiving a working tool (2) rotable about a longitudinal axis (A) includes a receiving sleeve (3) having a guide surface (12) extending along the longitudinal axis (A) and at least three, axially extending, up to a free end surface (4) of the chuck (1), entraining grooves (5) located in front of the guide surface (12), arranged radially outside of the radial dimension (R) at angles of 0°, 120°, and 240°, and each having a central angle (?) defined with respect to the radial dimension (R) and amounting to at least 40°; and at least one locking member (6) radially displaceable over the radial dimension (R) and arranged between two circumferentially adjacent entraining grooves (5) and diametrically opposite a third entraining groove (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Kleine, Werner Britten
  • Patent number: 7258349
    Abstract: A hand power tool selected from the group consisting of a drill hammer and an impact hammer has an exchangeable tool holder, a guide pipe which receives the tool holder at its free end, a locking device arranged on the guide pipe and operative manually for fixing the tool holder on the guide pipe in a defined locking position assumed by the tool holder on the guide pipe, so that the locking position is arranged before a mounting position in a displacement direction of the tool holder, in which mounting position the tool holder is held unlocked on the guide pipe, the locking device being provided with means activatable by a release of the locking device and providing a displacement of the tool holder to the mounting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Publication number: 20040245731
    Abstract: A hand power tool selected from the group consisting of a drill hammer and an impact hammer has an exchangeable tool holder, a guide pipe which receives the tool holder at its free end, a locking device arranged on the guide pipe and operative manually for fixing the tool holder on the guide pipe in a defined locking position assumed by the tool holder on the guide pipe, so that the locking position is arranged before a mounting position in a displacement direction of the tool holder, in which mounting position the tool holder is held unlocked on the guide pipe, the locking device being provided with means activatable by a release of the locking device and providing a displacement of the tool holder to the mounting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Publication number: 20040227307
    Abstract: A chuck for a pneumatic hammer including an insert and a pin engaged with the insert and one or more other components of the chuck, such as, for example, the nosepiece. The pin is configured to prevent or otherwise limit rotation of the insert relative to the one or more components of the chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Frederick C. Chudy, Raymond E. Kinsley
  • Patent number: 6691799
    Abstract: A tool holder for a power tool, such as a drill hammer, a chisel hammer, and both, includes a striking mechanism for strikingly driving a tool, a base body, a drive part on which the base body is releasably mounted, at least one locking body for releasably mounting the base body on the drive part, a component having a throughgoing passage in which the at least one locking body is arranged, a securing body which radially fixes the at least one locking body in its engaging position, an actuating element for unlocking the securing body from its locking position to an unlocking position for radially reieasing the at least one locking body, and at least one holding element which holds the at least one locking body in the unlocking position of the securing body in the throughgoing passage. The holding element is lowered or lowerable into the component having the throughgoing passage and is overrun by the securing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek, Richard Engel
  • Patent number: 5878823
    Abstract: A hydraulic breaking hammer having a machine housing including a cylinder bore and an impact piston which is reciprocatingly movable in the cylinder bore in response to an alternating hydraulic pressure, and a tool part having: (i) a head portion fitted to a front portion of the machine housing, and (ii) a guide bore which lies in line with the cylinder bore and in which a breaking tool is slidably carried and repeatedly subjected to impact by the impact piston. A seal is arranged at the front portion of the machine housing between the cylinder bore and the impact piston for separating drive hydraulics of the breaking hammer from the tool part, and a transverse slot is formed in the front portion of the machine housing between mutually opposing side wall portions of the machine housing so as to intersect the cylinder bore forwardly of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Berema AB
    Inventor: Stig Roland Henriksson
  • Patent number: 5873579
    Abstract: A percussion tool includes a housing part having a frontal end provided with an opening; a tool bit guide supported in alignment with the opening; and a tool bit slidably supported in the tool bit guide and projecting from the housing part through the opening. The tool bit is arranged for a reciprocating motion parallel to the longitudinal tool bit axis and transverse excursions substantially perpendicular to the tool bit axis. A transverse guide is attached to the housing part and displaceably receives an outer seal composed of a transverse slide. The transverse slide has an aperture through which the tool bit passes. The transverse slide and the tool bit are arranged such that the transverse slide and the tool bit move as a unit during the transverse excursions of the tool bit. There is further provided an inner seal disposed in the housing part between the transverse slide and the tool bit guide externally thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Krupp Bautechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Jurgen Prokop, Karlheinz Fritz, Thomas Deimel, Martin Schareina, Thorsten Ahr
  • Patent number: 5702112
    Abstract: In the front head (11) of a machine hammer (10), transversely disposed wedges (18) are adapted to lock the working tool (12) so that the working tool (12) is axially movable by form-restricted cooperation with recesses (16) on the working tool (12). Each wedge (18) is locked in the front head (11) by a key (20), which extends across the wedge (18) into engagement with a transverse bore (21) therein. The key (20) has a releasable locking device including a locking element affixed in the front head (11) and formed by a polyurethane block (24). The block (24) is provided with a through bore (27) and has elastically form-recovering material properties. When, for purposes of locking the key (20), the key (20) is pressed through the bore of the block (24), the block (24) is caused to expand resiliently into an annular groove (22) on the key (20), thereby locking the key (20) in the front head (11) and providing its wedge (18) locking function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Berema Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Osten Kurt Brannstrom, Stig Bertil Artur Fredin
  • Patent number: 5542797
    Abstract: A tool for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool used for chiseling and/or percussion drilling includes an axially extending chucking shank (1) with a locking 1groove (2) closed at its ends spaced apart in the axial direction. The chucking shank (1) has two rotary entrainment grooves (3) each with an entrainment side flank arranged so that the entrainment side flanks are located diametrically opposite one another. One of the rotary entrainment grooves (3) extends in the axial direction through a part of another locking groove (4) in such a way that the locking of the tool bit in a chuck is improved. To increase the transmission of torque, the chucking shank (1) has at least one additional axially extending groove (5). With this groove arrangement of the chucking shank (1) the tool bit is useful with a correspondingly shaped tool bit chuck as well as with different commercially available chucks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Obermeier
  • Patent number: 5529445
    Abstract: A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck on a manually operated tool used for cutting and/or percussion drilling includes an axially extending chucking shank (1). The chucking shank has two axially extending rotary entrainment grooves (2, 3) open at a free end of the shank and located diametrically opposite one another. The transverse cross-sectional areas of the rotary entrainment grooves (2, 3) are different. A locking element displaceable into a locking groove (4) with axially displaced closed ends affords axial securement of the chucking shank in the chuck. To increase the torque to be transmitted, an axially extending groove (5) open at the free end of the shank is provided with its cross-section transverse of the axial direction corresponding at least to the transverse cross-section of the locking groove (4). Due to this arrangement, faulty locking of the chucking shank in the chuck of conventional commercially available manually-operated tools can be easily recognized by the tool operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Obermeier, Axel Neukirchen
  • Patent number: 5529444
    Abstract: A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool used for chiseling and/or percussion drilling has an axially extending chucking shank (1). The chucking shank has two axially extending rotary entrainment grooves (2) open at its end inserted into the chuck and located diametrically opposite one another. In addition, the chucking shank (1) has a locking groove (3) closed at its ends extending transversely of the axial direction and serving to lock the tool bit in the axial direction. Further, the chucking shank (1) has an axially extending groove (4) and an additional axially extending groove (5) for providing greater surface areas in entrainment side flanks for transmitting torque. The axially extending groove (4) extends through a part of the locking groove (3) so that an end face (3a) is formed extending transversely of the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Obermeier
  • Patent number: 5520488
    Abstract: A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool, used for cutting and/or percussion drilling, has an axially extending chucking shank (2) with a free end. The chucking shank (2) has two locking grooves (6, 7) located diametrically opposite one another and closed at their ends spaced apart in the axial direction. In addition, the chucking shank has two axially extending rotary entrainment grooves (8, 9) disposed diametrically opposite one another and open at the free end. The transverse cross-sectional areas of the rotary entrainment grooves (8, 9) are different. To increase the transmittable torque, an additional axially extending groove (11) open at the free end of the chucking shank extends through and is positioned asymmetrically to one of the locking grooves (7). An end shoulder face (7a) for axially securing the tool bit is formed in the end region of the locking groove located laterally outwardly from the axially extending groove (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Obermeier
  • Patent number: 5518345
    Abstract: A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool used for chiseling and/or percussion drilling includes a chucking shank (6). The chucking shank has two rotary entrainment grooves (7) located diametrically opposite one another and open at the end of the chucking shank to be inserted into the chuck. A pair of locking grooves (8) are located diametrically opposite one another. Axially extending grooves (9) overlap at least part of the pair of locking grooves (8) so that end faces (8a) are formed extending transversely of the axial projection and facing away from the end of the chucking shank to be inserted into the chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Obermeier
  • Patent number: 5375950
    Abstract: The clamping shank (1) of a chisel-cutting and/or percussion boring tool bits has stop faces effective in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction. Entrainment faces (2), open towards a free end of the clamping shank (1) are located upstream of these stop faces in the direction of the cutting area of the tool bits. The radial dimension (r) of the essentially radially extending entrainment faces (2) is greater than their axial dimension (a). In cooperation with an appropriately designed tool bit receptacle, the entrainment faces (2) can carry such a large share of the torque, that the stop faces are effectively relieved or unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Schulz, Werner Kleine
  • Patent number: 5348430
    Abstract: A universal chuck is presented which has the ability to either transmit a tensile or pulling force to the end of a piercing rod or transmit a rotational moment or force to a drill bit on a piercing machine for piercing a tap hole of a shaft furnace. The universal chuck of this invention comprises a rotary body mounted on the drive spindle of a working member slidably mounted on a piercing machine. A suitable support structure integral with the working member forms a guide cage around the rotary body. Structure for transmitting the tensile or pulling force to the end of a piercing rod and a rotational moment or force to a drill bit along with structure for adequately controlling operating and cooling fluids to a drill bit are arranged about a front cavity in the rotary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Paul Wurth S.A.
    Inventors: Jean Metz, Patrick Millen, Henri Radoux, Fernand Roemen
  • Patent number: 5170560
    Abstract: A hand held nibbling machine has a manipulatable housing with a drive head in which there is a downwardly opening passage. A tool assembly has an upper portion extending into the passage of the drive head, a lower portion for supporting a die, and a neck portion therebetween providing a throat portion between the upper and lower portions and into which a workpiece may extend. The upper portion of the tool assembly is releasably engaged in the passage of the drive head by interengaging surfaces about a portion of the outer surface of the upper portion of the tool assembly and about a portion of the wall of the drive head defining the passage, and these surfaces are disengageable by rotation of the tool assembly within the passage to move the interengaging surfaces out of alignment. A releasable fastener in the drive head is engageable with the upper portion of the tool assembly to secure the tool assembly in a rotated position in which the surfaces are interengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Trumpf Gruesch AG
    Inventors: Marco Allemann, Kurt Schmied, Hendrik W. Grobler
  • Patent number: 5095998
    Abstract: In a ram boring machine that has a striking piston displaceable in a tubular housing, a displaceably mounted chisel passing through a housing tip has a collar by which it is guided in a bore in the housing that has a front and a rear stop limiting the stroke of the chisel, and has a shank that projects into the working chamber of the striking piston, rebounding blows are avoided by making the length of projection of the shank is smaller than the maximum stroke of the collar between the stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Paul Schmidt
    Inventors: Alfons Hesse, Herbert Hupertz
  • Patent number: 5016892
    Abstract: A drill tool-holder comprises close to its end at least two radial cavities each opening outwardly of the tool-holder and inwardly of its axial bore, and each adapted for housing a ball, or cylinder, the outlet orifices of the cavities being dimensioned so that the ball, or cylinder, may be introduced from the outside into these cavities, but cannot come out thereof towards the inside of the tool-holder axial bore, which tool-holder is characterized by the fact that there is associated therewith a piece made from a hard material (3) whose body (10) has the same form as the cavities and may be housed therein without play, and has on each of its opposite faces a projecting portion (11,12) in the form of a small bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Societe de Prospection et d'Inventions Techniques
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Lafforgue, Claude Schwartz
  • Patent number: 4943192
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a drill bit which firstly comprises two locking grooves (1,1') diametrically opposed with respect to each other, and secondly, also diametrically opposed, with respect to each other, a first driving groove (3) and a second driving groove (4) associated with a locking groove (2) by being superimposed thereon. The driving groove (4) is advantageously angularly offset with respect to the associated locking groove (2) so as to have, in the drill bit driving zone, the lateral faces of the two associated grooves almost merged. This permits an extension of the friction zone so as to increase the wear resistance thereof, while the opposite lateral faces or edges of the superimposed grooves defines projecting locking surfaces (7) insuring proper locking of the drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: Societe de Prospection et d'Inventions Techniques (S.P.I.T.)
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Lafforgue, Claude Schwartz
  • Patent number: 4844482
    Abstract: The drill chuck has an adapter shaft which is held in the drill chuck nonrotatably with axial motion play and formed for receipt in a tool holder of a hammer drill machine. The hammer action of the adapter shaft is transmittable to the end of a drill held between centrally adjustable clamp jaws through an axial passage. A stop piece is carried in the drill chuck which is movable above the drill chuck axially into a position clamped and locked against the tool holder of the hammer drill machine. Hence axial motion play of the adapter shaft is prevented in both the drill chuck and also in the tool holder and the former is for all intents and purposes rigidly attached with the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Inventor: Gunter H. Rohm
  • Patent number: 4840519
    Abstract: The invention contemplates an improved drill-bit construction wherein the shank by which the bit is clamped is characterized by (a) three angularly spaced grooves which are continuous over their entire length of engageability to the jaws of a multi-jaw chuck, (b) at least one of the grooves being closed at its rear end, (c) the rear end of the closed-end groove is at no greater offset than 5-mm from the rear end of the bit, and (d) the diameter of the cutting part of the bit shank is greater than the diameter of the clamping part of the shank, to an extent which at most results from shaped formation of the chip-removal groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Gebruder Heller GmbH. Werkzeugfabrik
    Inventor: Werner Kleine
  • Patent number: 4775159
    Abstract: A chuck for receiving and holding the shank of a drilling tool includes a chuck member with a central bore. An anvil for transmitting axially directed percussive force extends into a rear end of the central bore. Clamping jaws are movable in guide channels formed in the chuck member extending into the central bore ahead of the anvil for frictionally locking the shank. In the region of the chuck member into which the anvil is located, there is a radially extending passageway through the chuck member extending between the central bore and a guide channel. A retaining member is radially displaceable through the passageway and has a dimension so that it can project outwardly or inwardly from the passageway. When the remaining member extends radially inwardly from the passageway, it can seat within an annular groove in the anvil and hold the anvil in a position so that it does not transmit percussive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Erwin Manschitz
  • Patent number: 4702651
    Abstract: 1. A tool holder for drilling machines, drilling devices as well as drills and drill sets.2. The tool holder, which is developed as a multi-jaw chuck, has a cylindrical bore 326 into which, with maximum opening of the holder, the jaws 322 engage, or the driver of each jaw has an end surface 416 which faces the hollow space of the holder and is interrupted by an axially extending rib 320.The drilling device has a tool holder developed as multi-jaw chuck and a drill whose chucking shank is guided axially in the hollow space of the holder and has grooves for the engagement of radially inner parts of the jaws of the multi-jaw chuck.In its chucking shank the drill has axially extending grooves for the engagement of the jaws of a multi-jaw chuck, within the bottom of which grooves, or at least in one of them, there is a trough which terminates at a distance from the rear end surface and is connected with said end surface by an introduction groove whose cross section is smaller than the cross section of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: Gebruder Heller GmbH, Werkzeugfabrik
    Inventor: Werner Kleine
  • Patent number: 4630836
    Abstract: In a chuck for use in a drilling device, such as a hammer drill, capable of performing rotary or rotary/percussion drilling, clamping jaws are provided to secure a tool in the drilling device. The clamping jaws each have a convex surface transverse to the chuck axis and with the surface directed inwardly toward the axis. The more radially inward portion of the convex surface has a V-shaped notch extending in the axial direction of the chuck. The notch forms a pair of spaced edges which grip the surface of the tool secured in the chuck so that the tool can be reliably rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Hunger, Anton Neumaier
  • Patent number: 4623155
    Abstract: A drill chuck for a hammer drill apparatus or the like having a plurality of clamp jaws advanceable to and retractable from a chuck drill axis so as to be able to grasp and hold a drill, wherein each of the clamp jaws is advanced into and retracted from a chuck opening in the chuck in a feed channel directed toward, and preferably perpendicular to, the chuck drill axis and further oriented so that the clamp jaws engage and hold the drill in the chuck opening when advanced in the channels, each of the feed channels being conformed so that each of the clamp jaws fits movably, but sufficiently tightly, therein so that drilling dirt does not penetrate between the clamp jaws and the surfaces of the feed channels, and the drill chuck is provided with a plurality of open cleaning passages connecting the interior wall of the chuck opening adjacent a mouth of one of the feed channels to the outside through the chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Inventor: Gunter H. Rohm
  • Patent number: 4621819
    Abstract: A hammer drill having a drive spindle rotatable about a spindle axis and a hammer displaceable axially in the drive spindle has a chuck in turn having a generally tubular chuck body centered on a chuck axis, formed with an axially centered array of axially backwardly open recesses, and having a central axially extending passage adapted to receive the shank of a drill bit. The body normally is carried on the spindle and receives the shank of the drill bit in its passage with the spindle, shaft, and chuck axes all coaxial. The hammer projects axially forward into the passage and is engageable therein with the bit. A plurality of jaws radially but not angularly displaceable in the chuck body have inner ends engageable with the drill-bit shank. An adjustment ring centered on the chuck axis, rotatable thereabout on the chuck body, and coupled to the jaws can move same radially synchronously and thereby center the bit in the body by engagement of the inner ends with the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Inventor: Gunter H. Rohm
  • Patent number: 4621818
    Abstract: The drill chuck comprises a chuck body connected to a drive shaft of a drilling drive device so as to deliver hammer blows to the working tool (e.g. the drill) of a hammer drill and the like, a plurality of clamp jaws which axially guide and hold the drill bit centered on the chuck axis, and a catch device which optionally acts to restrain the drill bit from rotary slipping with respect to the chuck body. The chuck jaws are positioned to axially overlap any axially extending working grooves provided in the drill bit shaft. At least one catch device is provided circumferentially between the clamp jaws, is radially movable in the chuck body and is constructed to engage in grooves running axially in the drill bit shaft or not according to the desire of the operator without loosening during drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Inventor: Gunter H. Rohm
  • Patent number: 4619460
    Abstract: A chuck is used with a hammer drill having a drive spindle rotatable about a spindle axis and a hammer displaceable axially in the drive spindle, and with a drill bit having a shaft extending along a shaft axis and having a radially outwardly open and at least generally axially extending groove. The chuck has a generally tubular chuck body centered on a chuck axis and having a central axially extending passage. This body is normally carried on the spindle and receives the shaft of the drill bit in its passage with the spindle, shaft, and chuck axes all coaxial. The hammer projects axially forward into the passage and is engageable therein with the bit. A plurality of jaws radially but not angularly displaceable in the chuck body have inner ends engageable with the drill-bit shaft and in turn provided with formations complementarily engageable in the groove thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Inventor: Gunter H. Rohm