Axially Spaced Patents (Class 408/224)
  • Patent number: 11839921
    Abstract: A spiral step twist drill bit, including a shank and a cutting portion. The cutting portion is provided with a spiral flute and a body clearance. A tip of the cutting portion is provided with a chisel edge and a cutting edge. A flank face is connected to the cutting edge, and is provided with a spiral cutting groove. A spiral direction of the spiral cutting groove is the same as that of the spiral flute. A slope of the spiral cutting groove is the same as that of the flank face. The spiral cutting groove is configured to divide the cutting edge into multiple segments to form multiple first edges and second edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Danyang Kaiyiyuan Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaibin Wang
  • Patent number: 11819931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drill comprising a drill tip, wherein the drill tip comprises at least one main cutting edge having a cutting corner, from which the main cutting edge extends to a center, wherein the drill tip comprises at least one additional cutting edge having an additional cutting corner, from which the additional cutting edge extends in the direction of the center, wherein the additional cutting edge is formed only on an outer portion of the drill tip and is thus shorter than the main cutting edge, wherein the additional cutting corner projects beyond the cutting corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Herbert Rudolf Kauper, Jürgen Schwägerl, Christian Strauchmann
  • Patent number: 11612942
    Abstract: A milling insert for a side and face milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a lower side defining a lower extension plane, and a side surface extending between the upper and the lower sides around a periphery of the insert that includes a main radial clearance surface, two opposite axial clearance surfaces and two corner clearance surfaces. At least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper and the side surfaces, wherein each cutting edge includes a main cutting edge extending above the main radial clearance surface and two corner cutting edges extending above the corner clearance surfaces on opposite sides of the main cutting edge. The main cutting edge slopes downward toward a midpoint of the main cutting edge and the main cutting edge and the main radial clearance surface slope outward from the corner cutting edges toward the midpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Linda Stefansson, Ulrik Sunnvius
  • Patent number: 11598362
    Abstract: A screw fastener comprising: an elongate shank (3) having a screw thread (9) extending along at least a substantial portion of the shank; a drive section (7) located at one end of the shank for allowing the screw fastener to be rotatably driven into one or more material layers; and a self-drilling or piercing point (5) at an opposing end thereof for forming a bore in said one or more material layers; wherein the drive section is shaped to minimise or avoid the need for countersinking of the formed bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IDEAL FASTERNERS PTY LTD.
    Inventor: Neville Deutscher
  • Patent number: 11524345
    Abstract: A bore cutting tool for cutting metal workpieces includes a tool substrate and a tool coating on a surface of the tool substrate. The bore cutting tool includes a plurality of pits in the surface of the tool substrate and wherein the tool coating extends over the pits such that the pit surface includes the tool coating. In this way, the pit dimensions can be retained over prolonged tool life and the pits, with their coated surface, are particularly effective at retaining lubricant so that the thickness of a lubricant film can be increased as compared to a tool without the coated pits. In the embodiments, the pits are formed by laser etching and are present only on the cylindrical land. Average pit depth is suitably in the range 8 ?m to 25 ?m, average pit width and pit length is independently selected from 40 ?m to 250 ?m and average pit density may be 20 to 30 pits/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Jamie Green, David Goulbourne
  • Patent number: 11413690
    Abstract: In this small-diameter drill bit, two cutting blades having main cutting blades, of which a difference between lengths are 0.04 mm or less, are formed on a tip of a double-margin drill bit body having a diameter of 2 mm or less and a margin length/diameter ratio of 3 or more. Two tip flank faces are formed such that a first extension line extending from a linear first intersecting ridgeline between a first tip flank face and a second tip flank face of one of the flank faces to the linear first intersecting ridgeline of the other flank face is located on a side in the drill bit rotation direction with respect to the other linear first intersecting ridgeline. A distance between the first extension line and the linear first intersecting ridgeline is in a range of 0.04 mm-0.08 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shogo Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11407039
    Abstract: A drill bit includes a body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and an axis of rotation extending centrally through the body. The drill bit includes a cutting head with a cutting tip on the axis of rotation and a cutting portion. The cutting portion includes first tip surfaces on opposite sides of the axis of rotation and second tip surfaces on opposite sides of the axis of rotation. Each first tip surface extends radially outward from the cutting tip to a corresponding second tip surface. Each second tip surface extends from a corresponding first tip surface to an outer periphery of the body. The first tip surfaces define a first tip angle measured through the axis of rotation that is oblique. The second tip surfaces define a second tip angle measured through the axis of rotation that is smaller than the first tip angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brett A. Parendo, Alexander R. Greenhill, David Hlavac, Carter A. Gibson
  • Patent number: 11396048
    Abstract: A turning tool for internal turning of a metal work piece having a rear end, an opposite forward end and a longitudinal center axis extending therebetween. The first nose cutting edge includes a first radially distal point having an associated first rake face and separates and connects a first forward cutting edge and a first rearward cutting edge. A second nose cutting edge of the turning tool includes a second radially distal point having an associated second rake face and separates and connects a second forward cutting edge and a second rearward cutting edge. The second radially distal point is positioned ahead of the first radially distal point. The first forward cutting edge forms an acute first entering angle, the second forward cutting edge forms an obtuse second back clearance angle, and the second rearward cutting edge forms an acute second entering angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Adam Johansson, Ronnie Lof
  • Patent number: 11370040
    Abstract: A rotary tool according to a non-limiting aspect has a body that has a rod shape extending from a first end to a second end and is rotatable about a central axis. The body has a first cutting edge positioned on the first end, a first flute extending from the first cutting edge toward the second end, a second cutting edge being on a side of the second end and on a side of an outer periphery with respect to the first cutting edge and being positioned away from the first cutting edge, and a second flute, extending from the second cutting edge toward the second end and being positioned along the first flute. The second flute has a projecting portion extending from a side of the first end toward a side of the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11351615
    Abstract: A drill bit for use with construction using cross laminated timbers (CLT) is provided. The bit has both sharpened and dull portions of the cutting element of the bit, so that it can clean-out an opening in the CLT that has been partially obscured by shifts in the laminated constituents of the CLT, without elongating or otherwise changing the shape of the fastener opening. The use of the bit is made at the construction site in fastener openings previously made and otherwise obscured, thereby allowing the quick assembly and construction of a structure made of CLT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: The Miller Dowel Company
    Inventor: Michael R. Miller
  • Patent number: 11260459
    Abstract: Tools and methods for creating a plurality of aligned holes from a plurality of near full-sized holes. The tool includes a cutting member having a first diameter and a pilot member connected to and coaxial with the cutting member. A first section of the pilot member includes a centering member and is positioned between the cutting member and the second section having a second diameter. The centering member may include a cutting surface. The second diameter corresponds to a positional tolerance of misalignment of a plurality of near full-sized holes of the same diameter and a full-size hole diameter. The centering member may have a third diameter between the first and second diameters. The centering member may be tapered. The pilot member may be inserted into a plurality of near-full sized holes and the cutting member may cut through the holes to form a plurality of aligned full sized holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: John P. Scheibel, James L. Scherer, Michael A. Ward
  • Patent number: 11246606
    Abstract: Drill bits for cutting bones adjacent to soft tissue are disclosed. According to one example, the drill bit includes a working portion having a top cutting surface including a first top cutting surface and a second top cutting surface. The second stop cutting surface has an angle with respect to a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the drill bit that is less than an angle with respect to a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the drill bit of the first top cutting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Biomet 3I, LLC
    Inventors: Weston Whitaker, Kaushal Kumar
  • Patent number: 11229958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a step drill having a shaft section extending along a longitudinal axis of the step drill and a cutting section with a cutting tip, and having a chip-breaking geometry which comprises a concavely curved surface and is configured such that ribbon chips are broken on the concavely curved surface during rotation of the step drill, whereby the chip-breaking geometry is disposed on a reaming step of the step drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Herbert Rudolf Kauper, Jürgen Schwägerl
  • Patent number: 11207098
    Abstract: A surgical obturator comprising an elongate shaft extending along an axis between a proximal end and a distal end includes a bladeless tip disposed at the distal end of the shaft. The tip has a blunt point and a pair of shorter side surfaces separated by a relatively longer pair of opposing surfaces to form in radial cross-section a geometric shape that has a longer length and relatively narrower width. The side surfaces and opposing surfaces terminate in end surfaces located proximally from the blunt point. The end surfaces extend radially outwardly from opposite locations of the outer surface. A conical surface facilitates initial insertion of the obturator and the geometric shape facilitates separation of consecutive layers of muscle tissue having fibers oriented in different directions and provides proper alignment of the tip between the layers of muscle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Scott V. Taylor, Matthew A. Wixey
  • Patent number: 10974328
    Abstract: A drilling insert has a central portion with a central axis, and three circumferentially spaced tip portions. Each tip portion has a first axis and two diverging first cutting edges with radially outermost cutting points defining a first circle lying on a tip plane perpendicular to the first axis and having a first cutting diameter. In a view along one of the first axes, a second circle having a second diameter circumscribes the drilling insert, and the first cutting diameter is at least sixty percent of the second diameter. A cutting tool rotatable about a tool axis with a tool cutting diameter includes the drilling insert, and a second cutting insert having a second cutting edge. One of the tip portions is operative having its first axis coaxial to the tool axis, and the second cutting edge extends radially outward of the first cutting diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shim'on Shitrit
  • Patent number: 10940545
    Abstract: A drill bit includes an elongated shaft having an outer surface forming plural lands and spaces between the lands forming a helical flute; a shank located at a first end of the elongated shaft, the shank configured and arranged to engage the drill bit in a tool; a head located at an opposing end of the elongated shaft from the shank, the head including a first cutting arm and a second cutting arm, the first cutting arm including a first cutting portion having a first leading cutting edge, the second cutting arm including a second cutting portion having a second leading cutting edge; and wherein the first cutting arm includes a first groove extending through the first leading cutting edge and the second arm includes a second groove extending through the second leading cutting, the first and second grooves configured to cause shorter fibers, shavings or chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Disston Company
    Inventors: Eugene A. Kulig, Jacky Zhang
  • Patent number: 10926344
    Abstract: Provided is a taper reamer with which it is possible to achieve an improvement in machining accuracy and machining life. The taper reamer comprises a plurality of cutting edges each having a helical shape provided on the outer periphery of a cutting-edge portion having an external diameter being expanded from a front end toward a rear end thereof, wherein an intertooth angle, defined between each of a pair of the cutting edges adjacently arranged in a circumferential direction, is different from one another at any given reference position, and wherein the plurality of cutting edges each have a helix angle that is different from one another. As the plurality of cutting edges that are unequally partitioned each have the helix angle that is different from one another, a resonance during cutting can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ISHII CORPORATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Sasagawa, Yuichi Hirokawa, Hiroshi Saito, Takumi Abe, Shunsuke Sakuma, Yuki Ogiue, Satoshi Koike, Mitsuru Otaki, Hiroto Kanda, Suguru Machiya, Hifumi Okada
  • Patent number: 10870158
    Abstract: A milling tool for face milling includes a tool body and a plurality of cutting members arranged successively along a periphery of the tool body. Each cutting member includes a main cutting edge provided for a roughing operation and a subset having a first, a second and a third secondary cutting edge provided for a finishing operation. The first and third secondary cutting edges extend in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction and the second secondary cutting edge extends between the first and third secondary cutting edge. The main cutting edges are situated at the same radial position and the first secondary cutting edges are situated at the same axial position. A first end point of the second secondary cutting edges successively progress radially inward and a second end point of the second secondary cutting edges successively progress radially inward and axially outward along the periphery of the tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Jacques Gasthyus, Damien Joly, Philippe Andre, Vincent Lemoine
  • Patent number: 10603049
    Abstract: A drill tool for implant surgery including a first drill part having a first, smaller diameter for drilling a recess for an implant post and a second drill part having a second, larger diameter for drilling a recess for an implant hat is disclosed. The second drill part has one or more shape cutting edges and one or more sharp pre-cutting edges extending beyond said one or more shape cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: EPISURF IP-MANAGEMENT AB
    Inventors: Nina Bake, Karin Wermelin, Manuel Otero Quevedo, Niklas Hero
  • Patent number: 10473137
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various embodiments of a winged threaded fastener primarily suited to be used to connect a wooden object to a metal object. The fastener includes a head, a shank, a helical thread formation extending from the shank, a first wing extending from the shank, and a second wing extending from the shank. In various embodiments, the wings are offset along the longitudinal axis of the shank with respect to each other and are angled with respect the longitudinal axis of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Dill
  • Patent number: 10427224
    Abstract: A drill includes drill body and peripheral insert having a radial cutting edge extending generally in a direction of a radius of the drill body, and a central insert. The peripheral insert includes a rake face including a plurality of chipbreaker protrusions. A first angle measured between a line tangent to forward ends of the plurality of chipbreaker protrusions and the central axis of the drill body extending toward the shank end is an acute angle. Also a peripheral insert is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: PRAMET TOOLS, S.R.O.
    Inventors: Martin Straka, Roman Reindl, Marios Goltsis, Simon Hellborg
  • Patent number: 10328499
    Abstract: A step drill bit has a cutting head defining a longitudinal axis and having a plurality of steps having different effective diameters. First and second cutting edges are formed in the cutting head. The first cutting edge and the second cutting edge are arranged such that the bit is asymmetric in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis relative to a plane containing the longitudinal axis. A rubbing surface is formed on each step where the rubbing surface extends to approximately the effective diameter of that step such that the first cutting edge, second cutting edge and the rubbing surface forms three points of contact with the side wall of the hole being cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: LaVerne R. Durfee
  • Patent number: 10328500
    Abstract: A cutting and deburring tool according to some embodiments of the disclosure includes a body portion configured to cut a hole in the workpiece, and a workpiece engaging portion and a shaft extending therefrom. The body portion includes a cutting edge configured to cut a hole in a workpiece and deburring cutting edges configured to deburr a first edge of a hole of a workpiece when the body portion is rotated in a clockwise direction or in a counter-clockwise direction after the hole is cut by the body portion. In some embodiments, a second body portion is provided and includes deburring cutting edges configured to deburr a second, opposite edge of the hole when the body portions are rotated in rotated in the clockwise direction or the counter-clockwise direction after the hole is cut by the first body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GREENLEE TOOLS, INC.
    Inventors: John Jeremiah Morton, Arthur Anton Piper, Gerald Tully
  • Patent number: 10315257
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a drill has an elongated shape and a rotation axis. The drill includes a drilling portion, a shank portion, and a tapered portion. The shank portion includes a first helical flute and a first cutting edge. The tapered portion is located between the drilling portion and the shank portion. The tapered portion includes a second helical flute, a second cutting edge, a chamfered part, and a connection part. The chamfered part is getting smaller gradually as moving toward the first end side. The connection part has a curved surface and connects the second cutting edge and the drilling portion. A ratio of w/L is 0.0015-0.5 where L is a length of the second cutting edge in a front view of the first end, and w is a width of an outer peripheral end of the chamfered part in a direction parallel to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10299802
    Abstract: A reconstruction system for ligament employing a button/loop construct with a drill pin. The drill pin has a shaft with a proximal and a distal end. A pin tip provided at the distal end of the shaft has a width greater than the shaft diameter. The pin tip helps cut a wider tunnel for fixation of ligaments/grafts in reconstructive surgeries. The shaft of the drill pin is provided with a laser marks for measurement of intraosseous length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.
    Inventors: James Saylor, Jonathan Decker
  • Patent number: 10245656
    Abstract: A step bit according to some embodiments includes a body including one or more flutes having a cutting edge configured to cut a hole in a workpiece, and a plurality of steps provided on the body. The steps progressively increase in diameter from a first distal step to a terminal proximal step. One or more of the steps have first and second lands. An outer diameter of the first land is less than the outer diameter of the second land. A length of the first land is less than a length of the second land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: GREENLEE TOOLS, INC.
    Inventors: Arthur Anton Piper, John Jeremiah Morton, Nalin Devalam, Robert Bruce Bentley
  • Patent number: 10195675
    Abstract: A twist drill having a shaft with a longitudinal axis, wherein the cutting tool includes a plurality of flutes extending about the longitudinal shaft along a helix angle and a plurality of lands adjacent the flutes. Each land has a cutting edge adjacent a corresponding flute and a margin (i.e. relief surface). A cutting point is adjacent a forward end of the shaft. A first, second and third forward cutting surfaces are adjacent the first, second and third cutting edges, respectively, and extend proximate the cutting point axially rearward for a predetermined length about the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The cutting edges are unequally angularly spaced from each other, and each forward cutting surface has a primary relief angle that are unequal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Michael George
  • Patent number: 10150168
    Abstract: A blade section has two lands and two flutes in an alternating manner and also has a linear chisel edge. The lands are each provided with: a margin section that is continuous with a cutting blade; a clearance section that is continuous with the margin section and that has a smaller diameter than the margin section; and a pad that is continuous with the clearance section and that has the same width as the width of the margin section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukushima, Akihiro Osawa, Junya Onose, Toshihiko Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10137507
    Abstract: A hole cutter can include a cylindrical blade body with a cutting edge and one or more axially-elongated apertures. Each axially-elongated aperture can include a first fulcrum axially spaced from the cutting edge, and a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum. The blade body can also include a third fulcrum defined by a second aperture different from the one or more axially-elongated apertures. The third fulcrum may be spaced closer to the cutting than the first and second fulcrums. A lever, such as a screw driver, can be inserted into the apertures and placed against each of the fulcrums to lever slugs out of the interior of the blade body. The third fulcrum may alternatively be defined by another axially-elongated aperture that is located a different distance from the cutting edge than the axially-elongated aperture containing the first and second fulcrums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: IRWIN INDUSTRIAL TOOL COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Novak, Justin Beach, William Korb
  • Patent number: 10105765
    Abstract: A combined drill and chamfer tool (13, 21) for producing boreholes (29) in a workpiece (28) and for subsequently producing a chamfer (30) on at least one bore edge of the borehole (29), comprising a drill bit (1), which is secured in a rotationally fixed manner in a base body (3), and at least one chamfering blade (4) arranged behind the drill bit (1) in the axial direction, said chamfering blade being mounted in a blade window (25) arranged in the drill shank (35) and spring-loaded so as to be displaceable transversely to the longitudinal axis of the combined tool (13, 21), wherein the drill body (13) comprising the drill bit (1) and the drill shank (35) is made of a solid hard metal material, and wherein a spring-loaded, displaceable control bolt (5) is located in a central longitudinal bore (36) of the solid hard metal drill, the front tip (15) of said bolt controlling the transverse displacement of the chamfering blade (4), which is transversely displaceable within the blade window (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Heule Werkzeug AG
    Inventor: Harry Studer
  • Patent number: 10086444
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drill tip (2) comprising a base body (6) having chip flutes (22A,B) and extending in the axial direction along an axis of rotation (8) and having at least two main cutting edges (14A,B) on the front face thereof extending outward in the radial direction to a cutting corner (16A,B). Seen in cross section, the base body is asymmetric relative to rotation about the axis of rotation (8) at the height of the cutting corner (16A,B). The cross section of the base body is simultaneously designed having symmetrical spacing from the main cutting edges (14A,B). The drill tip (2) is in particular designed as an interchangeable modular part of a modularly designed drill tip (5). A drill base body (4) in which the drill tip (2) can be inserted can therefore in turn be designed symmetrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Jürgen Schwägerl, Herbert Rudolf Kauper
  • Patent number: 10076793
    Abstract: A drilling tool for producing drill holes includes a tip and a shaft arranged opposite the tip in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the drilling tool. The drilling tool has at least one geometrically defined cutting edge in the tip area, and has an expanded diameter trailing the tip in a longitudinal direction from the tip. The drilling tool has a first area with a first diameter that precedes the expanded diameter, and a second area with a second diameter, larger than the first diameter, that trails the expanded diameter. The drilling tool is distinguished in that the expanded diameter and/or the second area is/are embodied such that chips are produced in the area of the expanded diameter and/or in the second area when a workpiece is machined, chips consistent with those produced when a workpiece is machined with a geometrically undefined cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MAPAL FABRIK FUR PRAZISIONSWERKZEUGE DR. KRESS KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kress
  • Patent number: 10072389
    Abstract: A coupler interconnects adjacent sections of soil nail members to extend a length for a soil nail to be installed. The coupler includes a plurality of projections extending from the exterior surface of the coupler. The projections serve multiple purposes. One purpose is to center the soil nail within a drilled hole. Another purpose is to provide mixing for selected amounts of drilled material to remain within the hole, and/or evacuation of drilled material to be removed from the hole. Another purpose is to create a drilled hole with varying diameters in response to different geological layers encountered during drilling. The coupler with projections therefore serves as a secondary drill bit implement. The size of the projections can be altered to selectively enlarge a desired portion of a drilled hole. The invention further includes a soil nail assembly and a method for installing a soil nail assembly including couplers with projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: R&B LEASING, LLC
    Inventors: Colby Barrett, Nathan Beard, Timothy Allen Ruckman, Matt Birchmier, Todd Hamilton, Justin Petersen
  • Patent number: 9937566
    Abstract: A spirally-fed drilling and milling cutter to be driven spirally in order to drill and mill includes a shank, a groove at one of a plurality of offset positions at one end of the shank, a blade at a bottom side of the groove, and a spiral flute on the periphery of the main body of the shank, wherein the spiral flute has a flute end connected with the groove. When the cutter is rotated at high speed and in high torsion, drilling/milling chips are pushed upward, along with a cutting liquid, through the spiral flute out of a hole being made. Thus, the heat generated by the cutting action is reduced, and the chips are efficiently discharged, allowing the cutting edges to stay sharp and the cutter to make deep holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventor: Hsin-Tien Chang
  • Patent number: 9931178
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary cutting instrument, in particular of the bur type, intended for chirurgical or dental use and comprising an active cutting part and a handle. Said active part is made of a metal carbide and the handle is made of a nickel-titanium alloy. The instrument further comprises an intermediate part made of stainless steel placed between the active part and the handle and metallurgically connected to said active part and to said handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
    Inventor: Alain Delval
  • Patent number: 9925602
    Abstract: A replaceable cutting head stably rotates a head body using a work tool during attachment. An outer periphery of the head body is provided with a plurality of chip discharge grooves extending along a direction of an axis, cutting blades extending along the chip discharge grooves, and a pair of latching faces that are formed by cutting the outer periphery of the head body and are arranged back to back with the axis interposed therebetween at a base end portion along the axial direction. A first chip discharge groove, and a second chip discharge groove having a narrower width along a circumferential direction around the axis than the first chip discharge groove at at least the base end portion along the direction of the axis are included in the chip discharge grooves. At least one latching face is connected to a base end portion of the second chip discharge groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Azegami, Tarou Abe
  • Patent number: 9883873
    Abstract: A surgical bur includes a body and a drill point. The body includes flutes and lands. Each of the flutes includes a cutting edge, a rake face, and a clearance surface. Each of the lands is convex-shaped and disposed between a pair of the flutes. The drill point includes axial relief surfaces. Each of the axial relief surfaces has a planar area, is distinct from the lands and borders (i) a distal portion of one of the cutting edges, (ii) one of the lands, and (iii) one of the clearance surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Kulas, Donald E. Stearns
  • Patent number: 9884374
    Abstract: A hole cutter can include a cylindrical blade body with a cutting edge and one or more axially-elongated apertures. Each axially-elongated aperture can include a first fulcrum axially spaced from the cutting edge, and a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum. The blade body can also include a third fulcrum defined by a second aperture different from the one or more axially-elongated apertures. The third fulcrum may be spaced closer to the cutting than the first and second fulcrums. A lever, such as a screw driver, can be inserted into the apertures and placed against each of the fulcrums to lever slugs out of the interior of the blade body. The third fulcrum may alternatively be defined by another axially-elongated aperture that is located a different distance from the cutting edge than the axially-elongated aperture containing the first and second fulcrums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: IRWIN INDUSTRIAL TOOL COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Novak, William Korb, Justin Beach
  • Patent number: 9802258
    Abstract: The drill head (2) extends along a rotational axis (24) in the axial direction (22) and has a central area (6) on the front with first main cutting edges (26), an intermediate area (8) connecting thereto, and an outer area (10) in turn connecting thereto with second main cutting edges (30). The intermediate area (8) in this case expands in the axial direction (22) toward the outer area (10) and in particular forms an expanding conical shell. A centering effect is hereby achieved via the intermediate area (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Herbert Rudolf Kauper
  • Patent number: 9713846
    Abstract: A three-flute drill includes: three chip discharge flutes; and three cutting edges each having concavely-curved and convexly-curved cutting edge portions, an axially perpendicular cross-sectional view orthogonal to an axial center having first convex and concave curves respectively corresponding to the convexly-curved and concavely-curved cutting edge portions intersecting each other, in the axially perpendicular cross-sectional view, a concave amount of the first concave curve being within a range of 0.01D to 0.05D in terms of a drill cutting diameter relative to a reference line connecting an outer circumferential point, at which a drill outer circumferential portion intersects with the first convex curve, and the axial center, and in the axially perpendicular cross-sectional view, a rake chamfer width being a distance from an intersection between a straight line through the intersection and orthogonal to the reference line and the reference line, to the outer circumferential point, and being within 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Itoh, Kazuteru Takai
  • Patent number: 9676041
    Abstract: A power tool accessory includes a shank member having a first hardness. A conically-shaped body is coupled to the shank member and includes a series of stepped shoulders that increase in diameter from a tip portion to a base portion. A flute extends substantially from the tip portion to the base portion, with cutting edges defined at the intersection of the flute and the shoulders. The body has a second hardness greater than the first hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Douglas W. Allen
  • Patent number: 9662719
    Abstract: In order to ensure good guidance of a drilling tool at the start of a drilling operation and at the same time ensure a reliable evacuation of a center chip, in the drill bit, in a tool flank adjoining a respective main cutting edge, an additional point thinning is recessed in the region of a transverse cutting edge, which additional point thinning, extending in a principal direction from the tool flank, merges, with a convex course, into a chip flute. As a result of the convex design, an as far as possible homogeneous, edge-free transition into the chip flute is obtained. Since the point thinning is additionally made, the tool flank, even in the rear end facing away from the cutting edge, remains at a front axial position, so that a second land is effective for a reliable guidance of the bore already at an axially front position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL, INC.
    Inventors: Herbert Rudolf Kauper, Juergen Schwaegerl
  • Patent number: 9662718
    Abstract: A drill includes a cutting section having a cylindrical shape and configured to be rotated about a rotation axis. The cutting section includes a first cutting section and a second cutting section, at a front end portion thereof, a first flute continuous with the first cutting section and extending helically around the rotation axis toward a rear end of the cutting section, and a second flute continuous with the second cutting section and extending helically around the rotation axis toward the rear end of the cutting section. The first cutting section includes a first inner cutting edge and a first outer cutting edge positioned closer to the outer peripheral surface than the first inner cutting edge and gradually inclined to the rear end of the cutting section toward the outer peripheral surface. The first inner cutting edge is positioned closer to the rear end of the cutting section than the inner end of the first outer cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichirou Koga
  • Patent number: 9586264
    Abstract: A double-sided cutting insert for a drilling tool includes a top side, a bottom side, and at least one side surface interconnecting the top side and the bottom side and forming at least one cutting edge. The top side and the bottom side comprise a different external profile and chip groove geometry and an identical inscribed circle, and each of the top side and the bottom side comprises four indexable cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Dufour, X. Daniel Fang, David J. Wills, Thomas B. Hartman
  • Patent number: 9586271
    Abstract: A drill cutting insert has a cutting edge at a transition between a side surface and a top side which is formed with n identical cutting corners and n identical partial cutting edges —with n?{3, 4} —extending between the cutting corners. Each of the n partial cutting edges has: adjoining a first cutting corner, a main lip which is straight in plan view of the top side; adjoining the other cutting corner, a secondary lip which is straight in plain view of the top side, and a transition section, via which the main lip and the secondary lip merge into one another and which has a convex section adjoining the main lip and a concave section adjoining the secondary lip. The main and secondary lips enclose on the outside an angle a ?<180° in plan view of the top side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Josef Prast, Remus Venturini, Uwe Schleinkofer
  • Patent number: 9486885
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool for machine tools has a drill body, a cutting head arranged on the front face of the drill body and a shaft arranged at the end thereof, wherein the drill body has two chip flutes, which are delimited at their flanks by ribs and a first chip flute of which is spirally curved. A second chip flute is not spiraled or is spirally curved with a pitch differing from the first chip flute, preferably running in the same direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: KOMET GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Hendrik Nitzsche, Gerhard Stolz, Hans Haidinger, Benno Spors
  • Patent number: 9393625
    Abstract: A high-torque connection refacing tool, including a shaft, a mandrel, a primary face plate, and a torque-stop face plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MAGNA-SONIC STRESS TESTERS, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin K. Manwaring
  • Patent number: 9156094
    Abstract: A wood drill bit has a plurality of step sections where each step section has at least one flute that terminates in a cutting edge. The effective diameter of each of the plurality of step sections is different than the diameter of the other of the plurality of step sections such that a single bit may be used to bore holes in wood of different diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Irwin Industrial Tool Company
    Inventors: LaVerne R. Durfee, Ryan F. Hall
  • Patent number: 9108252
    Abstract: A modular drill for machining applications includes a central pilot drill made of cemented carbide and outboard radial inserts having cutting edges with a diamond surface. Additionally, the diamond surface associated with the cutting edges includes indicia identifying each cutting edge, such that indexing of the inserts is made easier. To ensure the indicia withstands the harsh machining environment, the indicia is laser etched onto the diamond surface of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Kent L. Reiner, Dan Elwyn Chesney, Jai Prasad
  • Patent number: 9101988
    Abstract: A pipe extractor removes a broken pipe from a connector or a fitting. The pipe extractor comprises an upper shaft mechanically coupled to a lower shaft where the lower shaft is further mechanically coupled to cutting insert, the cutting insert comprises a stop, a shaving edge and a cutting edge. A user can affix the upper shaft to a drill and engage the drill to turn the cutting insert causing the cutting edge to remove the broken pipe from the connector or the fitting. The cutting insert is further affixed to a guide such that the guide can ensure that the cutting edge is properly aligned with the broken pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Inventor: Michael Patrick Shannon