Patent · US Expired

Axially self-aligning drill bit

US4906146A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 13, 1984
Grant dateMar 6, 1990
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 13, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T408/9093
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A drill bit having an elongated, stiffly flexible shank and integral, hardened, enlarged cutting head and tip is adapted to maintain a penetration angle through a plurality of spaced wooden objects while being rotatably driven by a drill. The tip of the drill bit forms a portion of a cutting head and is of generally triangular shape having two relatively enlarged opposed flat surfaces joined by two tapered surfaces. The tapered surfaces intersect at a tip edge defined by a line which makes an acute angle with a plane bisecting said drill bit along the longitudinal axis thereof, and which plane is perpendicular to the flat surfaces.

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