Abstract: A drill bit for drilling a hole in layered material where the first layer encountered by the bit is softer than the second layer and where the second layer encountered by the bit produces chips capable of abrading the first layer. The drill bit comprises a solid shaft having a cutting tip, an internal bore for conducting flushing fluid to the tip and a flute for conveying the fluid and the chips away from the tip. A collar fixed to the outer surface of the shaft prevents the chips from contacting the bore drilled in the first layer.

Abstract: A drill assembly for use with a drill motor having a chuck is provided for drilling large holes in masonry materials. The drill assembly includes a tube having at least one masonry cutting element attached to one end. A rod has one end adapted to be received within and rotatably driven by the chuck of the drill motor while a clutch assembly mechanically connects the other end of the rod to the tube. The clutch assembly is movable between an engaged position and a released position. In its engaged position, the clutch assembly mechanically connects the rod and tube together so that they are rotatably driven in unison with each other by the drill motor. Conversely, in its released position, the clutch assembly allows relative rotational movement between the rod and the tube.

Abstract: A drill includes a plurality of lips with enlarged portions at one end defining heads therefore. The heads form frusto-conical surfaces and cutting edges extend from the frusto-conical surfaces to remove chips. The cutting edges are limited in size with respect to the frusto-conical surfaces to control the removal of chips and a pocket behind each head readily receives the shavings to convey the latter away from the one end.

Abstract: An end mill includes a body having a core receiving recess and a cutting insert releasably mounted thereon. An upper surface of the insert has a first cutting edge ridge serving as an outer peripheral cutting edge, a second cutting edge ridge providing an end cutting edge and a third cutting edge ridge providing an inner peripheral cutting edge. The upper surface has a corner where the second and third cutting edge ridge intersecting each other. The upper surface is composed of a central portion and a corner portion including the corner, whereby the third cutting edge ridge comprising a first edge portion defined by a ridge of the corner portion and a second edge portion defined by a ridge of the central portion. At least that portion of the corner portion disposed adjacent the central portion is inclined providing a thickness of the insert is progressively reduced toward the corner. The insert has a negative radial rake at the outer peripheral cutting edge and a positive axial rake.

Abstract: A rotary router bit for smoothing the edges of a sheet of abrasive or easily splintered material has two collars axially spaced on the router shank. Each collar has peripheral cutting teeth overlapping opposed teeth of the other collar and inclined at a shearing angle with respect to the axis of the shaft. The teeth extend oppositely toward each other and are formed around a central open space between the teeth and the shank into which chips from the sheet are fed so as not to clog the cutting edge of the teeth but so as to allow for subsequent ejection from the bit.

Abstract: This invention relates to an instrument of a type known variously a a biopsy needle or cannula and used to gather tissue, and particularly soft tissue such as bone marrow, from living persons or animals for pathological study. The instrument retains a gathered tissue specimen by closing the end of a hollow member while the member is in the gathering position, and more particularly by deforming a flexible portion of the member. A pair of members are employed, one moving within the other. By a particular cooperation between the members, a flexible portion of the inner member is displaced or deformed to occlude an open, tissue receiving end thereof and thereby capture tissue and retain it against loss on removal of the instrument from the body of tissue into which it has been thrust.

Abstract: This invention uses a unique tubular cutting tool in a method for separating individual cables from the elastomeric body of a cable-type conveyor belt. The tool bores a cylindrical path through the elastomeric body coaxial with the individual longitudinal reinforcement cables. A transverse cut is then made across the belt width which just intersects the cylindrical paths which have been made around the cables. The elastomeric material can then be removed leaving only the cables exposed. The prepared belt end is then ready for application of a mechanical or vulcanized splice. The tubular cutting tool features both circular and axial cutting edges. The tool can be utilized in a hand drill to allow on-site splice preparation of the conveyor belt.

Abstract: A facing cutter for making annular holes which includes a substantially cylindrical jacket having inner and outer peripheries and a lower end. A plurality of axial teeth are spaced circumferentially at the lower end of the jacket with each tooth having an inner and outer cutting edge which extends helically along the jacket. The teeth are of alternately different design, with a different angle formed by the intersection of the inner and outer cutting edges on every other tooth and the axial length of the alternate teeth being different. An initial tooth cuts the central portion of a groove to be formed to a deeper level than an alternate tooth that cuts the side portions of the groove to be formed.

Abstract: An annular hole cutter including a barrel and cutting teeth attached to a lower portion of the barrel. A portion of a cutting edge of the cutting teeth including hard teeth each having an outer cutting edge formed into a segment which is concentric with respect to an outer circumferential surface of the barrel and an inner cutting edge formed into a segment which is eccentric a slight distance with respect to an inner circumferential surface of the barrel in the radial direction. Eccentric regions of the hard tooth project from the inner circumference of the barrel in the centripetal direction. A gullet is defined between adjacent edges of the cutting teeth for the removal of chips. An inner peripheral surface of the hard teeth located above a stepped portion of the gullets each being formed into a segment which is concentric with respect to the inner circumferential surface of the barrel, and has the same radius of curvature as that of the inner circumferential surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved core drill and a method of detachably coupling the same to a power driving unit to expedite the removal of a core therefrom. This is achieved by equipping the rear end of the drill stem with a fixedly attached externally threaded bushing. A coupling sleeve has internal threads at either end matable respectively with the bushing threads and the threaded drive shank of a power driving unit. This sleeve and the core drill are readily detached as a unit from the power drive thereby permitting the rapid removal of the core from the rear end of the drill rather than past the cutting ring at its front end.

Abstract: A valve refacing tool having a housing with a bore therethrough which includes a large-diameter portion at one end thereof. A substantially cylindrical support is disposed within the large-diameter portion of the bore and is removably fixed to the housing, as by a plurality of screws extending radially therebetween. This cylindrical support has a small-diameter cylindrical opening which extends axially from the inner end thereof, and which communicates with the small-diameter end of a truncated conical recess which opens outwardly through the other axial end thereof. This conical recess accommodates the head of a poppet valve. A plurality of cutting blades are secured in angularly spaced relationship around the conical recess. The cylindrical support is split into a plurality of separable arcuate sectors, and each is individually fixedly but releasably secured to the housing.

Abstract: A ring having a frustoconical inner periphery for beveling the end of a conduit is mounted on an upright side surface of the circular saw blade of a portable cutoff saw concentric with the axis of rotation of the blade.

Abstract: An annular hole cutter wherein each tooth is formed with a radially outer cutting edge and at least alternate teeth are formed with radially extending, circumferentially staggered inner and outer cutting edges. The bottom face of each tooth is formed with oppositely radially inclined inner and outer back-off faces which intersect in a downwardly extending crest which in turn intersects the radially outer cutting edge. The outer back-off faces of alternate teeth are vertically relieved relative to the outer back-off faces of the intermediate teeth and the inner back-off faces of the intermediate teeth are vertically relieved relative to the inner back-off faces of the alternate teeth a distance greater than the chip load at which the cutter is operated. In the preferred form, the radially inner portion only of the unrelieved inner back-off face is relieved to a greater extent than the relieved inner back-off faces.

Abstract: A drill bit comprises a body having a shank portion and an end face at its forward end. The drill bit body has at the forward end a cutting means having at least one cutting edge provided on the end face. The cutting edge is spaced from the axis of rotation of the body. The body has a rake surface which terminates in the cutting edge and extends along the axis of rotation.

Abstract: A hot tape saddle fitting (FIG. 1), has means (5) for connecting a pipe to a chamber (4) having an opening of which a rim (14) in use seals with the exterior of a pressurized main pipe encircled by a collar (1). The fitting is characterized in that a cutter (6) within chamber (4) is operable to cut the saddled main pipe in a chordal direction whereby to connect the pipe to the mains pipe. For preference chamber (4) extends as an elongate tubular body (3) in the chordal direction and cutter (6), is hollow, tubular, sharpened at one end (61), closed at the other end (63), and sealing slideable within body (3).

Abstract: An intramedullary reamer comprising a tapered cylindrical body member, a groove extending along the opposite sides and across the small end of the body member, a plurality of longitudinally disposed valleys disposed in advance of the groove to facilitate removal of cutting chips and a replaceable blade adapted to fit into the groove in the body member, the cutting edge of the blade being exposed above said groove, the open end of the blade being provided with locking means to secure the blade to the body member.

Abstract: A rotatable shell cutter has a cylindrical member which advances to cut into a pipe. A plurality of cutting elements are arranged in a circle at one end of the cylinder. Each cutting assembly comprises a cartridge fixed as one piece to the cylindrical member, such as by brazing or the like, a seat positioned thereon through dowel pins, a cutting insert mounted on the seat through a cooperating V-shaped projection and recess, and a clamp engaging, positioning and securing the cutting element against the seat and also secured to the cartridge for urging all of the cutting assembly elements together.

Abstract: A method and tool for trepanning holes in a composite of materials having different strength and elastic characteristics. The method provides for simultaneous point and surface cutting which occurs at the inner and outer circumferential surfaces of an annular hold being formed. The trepanning tool includes a cylindrical side wall with portions removed at one end to form a plurality of cutting elements or teeth. Each tooth includes a cutting single end point and associated cutting edges, there being inwardly and outwardly directed teeth.

Abstract: A cutter for use in making plugs of wood or the like to be used in the insulation industry for plugging holes made in order to provide insulation in an existing structure. The cutter is adapted to be held in a chuck or the like for rotation about a central axis defined by a holder, with a pilot being spring biased in the holder and having a centering tit for locating the wooden plug as it is being cut. Four steel cutters are provided in circumaxially spaced relationship around the axis, and two of these are oriented at a slightly different angle than the other two such that the plug can be cut with two distinct tapers, such that the steeper plug taper permits the plug to be first located in the hole to be plugged, and a shallower slightly larger diameter tapered portion for securing the plug in the hole. Each cutter is adjustable in the holder, and is held in place by a screw with any number of shims being provided in order to cut plugs of different size.

Abstract: A plurality of cutting plates are mounted in a recess forming a mouth at one end of a drill bit and each cutting plate has a plurality of cutting edges. The drill bit mouth provides chip removal. In the cutting position, the cutting plates are arranged in a plane extending in the direction of the axis of rotation of the drill bit and the cutting edges are arranged in a step-wise manner. The cutting plates can be turned for arranging different ones of the cutting edges in the cutting position. The cutting plates extend radially outwardly from the axis of rotation with one plate adjacent the axis of rotation and the at least one other plate extending radially outwardly from it. The cutting plates have a parallelogram shape in the axial plane of the cutting position. In the cutting position, cutting edges of the cutting plates are in parallel relation to one another with adjacent parallel cutting edges on adjacent cutting plates being in contact with one another.

Abstract: A catch is pinned or screwed to a conventional hole saw pilot pin. The catch is free to pivot through an axial cutout in the pilot pin. The catch is sized and oriented to pass through a previously drilled standard sized pilot hole and is then pivotable out of the cutout into a projecting position extending radially of the pilot hole. In this position, a cut plug is retained on the pilot pin rather than dropped. Upon completion of sawing, the catch can be manually positioned back into the pilot pin cutout and the cut plug can then be removed.

Abstract: A bone cutter for shaping a socket, such as a hip socket, comprising a cutter head located at one end of a rotatably driven shaft and having a hemispherical portion with a hemispherical exterior surface, the hemispherical portion containing a closed hollow chamber, and openings, such as slots, in said hemispherical portion connecting between the exterior surface and the chamber, the trailing portion of each of the openings having a cutting edge raised slightly above the hemispherical surface to move material from the socket into the chamber during rotation of the cutter head, and quick release means for connecting and disconnecting the cutter head and the shaft.

Abstract: An arbor for an annular hole cutter which includes a center pilot pin spring biased axially outwardly beyond the leading end of the cutter and which is retained in the cutter frictionally so as to be readily manually removable therefrom after the cutter has initiated a cut in the material in which the hole is being formed.