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Pistol grip, bone drill

US4620539A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 11, 1983
Grant dateNov 4, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 11, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T408/96
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A pistol grip, bone drill with a lever lock for convenient locking of the drill chuck for manipulation of the chuck jaws, particularly for facilitating advances of the drill bit, the bone drill having a contoured pistol grip handle with a hand crank for rotating an elongated drill barrel by a conventional bevel gear mechanism, the drill barrel having an end chuck with a connected revolver cylinder having engagement holes for receiving a locking pin displaced by the lever lock.

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