Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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This application is a divisional application of co-pending application Serial
No.
2,447,223, filed May 16, 2002.
The invention relates to a drill bit with straight and curved cutters on its
face.
Drill bits, especially percussive or rotary percussive drill bits, with a
cutting head which
on its face has cutters for detaching and/or crushing the material to be
worked, are known in
various embodiments.
These drill bits are used for example on the front end of self boring
injection drill
anchors which are set to protect rock against rock thrust.
A drill bit of the initially mentioned type is known from AT 001 513 Ul. The
known
drill bit on its face has cutters which run in at least two different axial
directions of the face. AT
001 513 U1 shows various combinations of straight and curved cutters on the
face of a drill bit.
A drill bit with a curved cutter or with one curved and one straight cutter,
or with one
straight cutter or finally with two cutters which are parallel to one another
is known from DE
918 741 A.
Similar arrangements of cutters for drill bits are known from GB 189 021 A.
One aspect of the present invention is to develop a drill bit of the initially
mentioned type
such that by the shape and arrangement of the cutters better efficiency of the
drill bit is achieved
and a tighter stop picture is obtained when it is used in rotary-percussive
drilling.
The arrangement of the cutters on the face of the bit as provided in the drill
bit of the
invention, regardless of whether they are curved or straight, yields the
desired efficiency of the
drill bit as claimed in the invention which is improved compared to the known
drill bits.
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Drill bits, especially percussive or rotary percussive drill bits with a
cutting head which
on its face bears cutters for removing or crushing the material to be worked
have at least one
channel which discharges in the face of the drill bit (AT 00 151 3U1). While
drilling, a flushing
medium (for example, water or air) emerges from this channel, cools the drill
bit during drilling
and flushes the drillings out of the drilled hole. After the drilled hole has
reached the desired
depth, a cementing mass (for example, mortar or concrete) is forced out of the
channel and after
setting fixes the injector drill anchor in the drilled hole. These known drill
bits have the
disadvantage that the channel from which the flushing medium is designed to
emerge is often
clogged by drillings, especially When drilling in soft rock, such as
sandstone.
Furthermore, an aspect of the invention is to develop these drill bits such
that there is no
danger that the channel will become clogged by drillings in the course of
drilling.
Thus, in one aspect of the present invention there is provided a dill bit with
straight and
curved cutters which are located on its face for removing or crushing the
material to be
worked, whereby a straight cutter being located in an area of the face of the
drill bit which is
diametrically opposite to an area of a face of the drill bit in which the
curved cutter is located
and whereby the curved cutter is curved such that its concave side points
toward the area of
the face of the drill bit in which the straight cutter is located,
characterized in that an
additional curved cutter is provided, that the curved cutters are located
opposite to each other,
that the curved cutters are curved in opposite directions with reference to a
direction of
rotation, and that the straight cutter and the cutters curved in opposite
directions are arranged
essentially Y-shaped, whereby the straight cutter is located symmetrically to
the curved
cutters curved in opposite directions.
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Since in the drill bit as claimed in the invention which is intended
especially for use in
injection drill anchors, at least one mouth of at least one channel through
which first flushing
medium and then setting mass, for example bonding (cement) mortar, is forced
in order to fix
the injection drill anchor in the drilled hole, in the plane defined by the
cutters of the drill bit in
the essentially vertical side surfaces of the drill bit the channel is
prevented from being clogged
with drillings when using the drill bit for drilling and thus passage through
at least one channel
in the drill bit during flushing during the drilling process and when forcing
out the binding mass
is reliably not hindered.
In the drill bit as claimed in the invention it is preferred that the mouth of
at least one
channel lies in one surface of the drill bit which is set back relative to the
periphery of the drill
bit.
Other features, details and advantages of the drill bits as claimed in the
invention result
from the following description of drill bits as claimed in the invention.
Figure 1 shows a drill bit of a first embodiment in an oblique view,
Figure 2 shows the drill bit from Figure 1 in another oblique view,
Figure 3 shows the drill bit from Figure 1 in a side view,
Figure 4 shows the drill bit from Figure 1 in another side view,
Figure 5 shows the drill bit from Figure 1 in a face view,
Figure 6 shows a section along line VI-VI in Figure 3,
Figure 7 shows a section along line VII-VII in Figure 5,
Figure 8 shows a section along line VIII-VIII in Figure 4,
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Figure 9 shows in an oblique view a second embodiment of a drill bit as
claimed in the
invention with cutters formed by hard metal inserts,
Figures 10 to 21 schematically show the arrangement and shape of cutters, each
with the
assigned stop picture (cutting picture) of embodiments with the drill bit as
claimed in the
invention,
Figures 22, 23, 24, and 2S show in different views a drill bit with the
arrangement/execution of the cutters as shown in Figure 10,
Figure 26 shows a section along line XXVI-XXVI in Figure 2S,
Figures 27, 28, and 29 show another embodiment of a drill bit as claimed in
the
invention,
Figure 30 shows a section of line XXX-X~~X in Figure 29
and
Figure 31 shows another section through the drill bit of Figures 27, 28 and
29.
In the embodiment shown in Figures 1 to 8 the drill bit 1 on its face has
three cutters 2
which are curved with the same radius of curvature and in the same direction,
with cutting edges
3 which run toward the middle of the face and which meet one another in the
middle, i.e. in the
axis 4 of the drill bit 1.
In the drill bit 1 there is a blind hole S which emerges from the end of the
drill bit 1
opposite the face surface and which has an inside thread so that the drill bit
1 can be screwed
onto an anchor rod which has an external thread, as is used for injection
drill anchors. From the
blind hole S in the illustrated embodiment three channels 10 emerge which are
tilted to the axis 4
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of the drill bit 1 at an acute angle, for example an angle of 30°
(compare Figure 6). The channels
are aligned in the drill bit 1 such that their mouths 11 discharge on the side
surface of the drill
bit 1 in the area between two adjacent cutters 2.
The discharges 11 of the channels 10, as is shown for example in Figures 1 to
4 and
especially the section from Figure 6, lie in the area of concavely curved
surfaces 12 which are
roughly normal to the plane which is defined by the cutting edges 3, therefore
essentially to the
face of the drill bit 1. For this reason and due to the circumstance that the
outside surface 13 of
the drill bit 1 is made as a cone (truncated cone) which widens toward the
face and which for
example has an opening angle of 10° (compare Figure 3 and 6), the
mouths 11 of the channels
10 are arranged such that the channels 10 when drilling cannot be clogged with
drillings. This
contrasts with the embodiment of known drill bits (compare for example AT 001
S 13 O l ) in
which the channels discharge in the area of the face of the drill bit.
The embodiment of a drill bit 1 as claimed in the invention which is shown in
Figures 1
to 8 is designed for one direction of rotation in which the concave sides of
the cutters 2 in the
direction of rotation point to the outside.
In the embodiment of a drill bit as claimed in the invention which is shown in
Figure 9,
which bit is otherwise made as has been described for the drill bit 1 of
Figures 1 to 8, the cutting
edges 2 are formed by hard metal inserts 20 which are attached in the drill
bits 1, for example by
shrinking. In this embodiment the cutters 2 and their cutting edges 3 end with
a distance from
the axis 4 of the drill bit 1.
The shape of the cutters 2 which is shown in the embodiments of the drill bit
1 as
claimed in the invention as shown in Figures 1 and 9 is shown schematically in
Figure 11
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together with the pertinent stop picture.
The cutters 2 of the drill bit 1 as claimed in the invention can however also
be curved for
certain applications such that the convex sides of the cutters 2 and the
cutting edges 3, as is
shown in Figure 15, point forward relative to the direction of rotation.
In addition to embodiments of the drill bit 1 as claimed in the invention with
exclusively
curved surfaces 2 which can preferably meet essentially in the center of the
face of the drill bit 1,
other arrangements and combinations of cutters are also conceivable.
Thus for example Figure 10 shows (schematically) the face of a drill bit 1 in
which two
cutters 2 which are oppositely curved relative to the direction of rotation
and which are
combined with a straight cutter 2' which likewise emerges from the center of
the face of the drill
bit 1 so that the stop picture likewise shown in Figure 10 results [sic].
In the embodiment show in Figure 10 the straight cutter 2' relative to the
axis 4 of the
drill bit 1 is opposite in the area of the face of the drill bit 1 in which
the cutters 2 which are
curved in opposite directions are located.
In the embodiment shown in Figure 12 a straight cutter 2' is combined with two
cutters 2
which are curved in the same direction. This yields the stop picture which is
shown likewise in
Figure 12.
In addition to the embodiments of the drill bit 1 as claimed in the invention
with three
cutters 2 or 2', embodiments with more than three cutters 2, 2', for example
four cutters, are also
possible. Here drill bits 2 with exclusively curved cutters 2 and drill bits 1
with a combination of
at least one straight cutter 2' and at least one curved cutter 2 are likewise
possible, as in the
above described embodiments with three bits 2, 2'.
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One example of this is shown in Figure 13 in which two straight cutters 2'
which are
opposite one another relative to the axis 4 of the cutting head 1 are combined
with two cutters 2
which are curved in the same direction relative to the direction of rotation
and which likewise
are located opposite one another with respect to the axis 4. The stop picture
of this embodiment
of a drill bit as claimed in the invention is likewise shown in Figure 13.
Figure 14 schematically shows one embodiment in which on the face of the drill
bits 1
there are exclusively curved cutters 2, specifically four cutters 2 which all
proceed essentially
from the center of the face of the drill bit l, i.e. from its axis 4. In the
shape and arrangement of
the cutters selected in Figure 14, the cutters 2 are curved alternatively in
opposite directions, so
that two cutters 2 which are opposite one another with respect to the axis 4
of the drill bit 1 make
up into a surface S.
In the embodiment shown in Figure 16, there are four cutters 2 which are all
curved in
the same direction, here too similarly to the embodiment shown in Figures 11
and 15 the
curvature of the cutters 2 being chosen such that relative to the axis of
rotation either their
convex or their concave sides point forward.
In the embodiments of the drill bits of the invention of Figures 17 and 18,
there are three
curved cutters 2 which are arranged and aligned such that two of the three
cutters make up into a
continuous arc and the third curved cutter 2 is located from the convex side
of that of the other
two cutters which make up into a continuous arc.
In the embodiment shown in Figure 19, the drill bit 1 on its face has two
cutters 2 which
are curved in opposite directions and two straight cutters 2' which lie in the
common axial plane
of the drill bit 1.
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In the embodiment shown in Figure 20 the drill bit 1 has a straight cutter 2'
which
extends to the middle (axis) of the drill bit, and two cutters 2 which are
curved in opposite
directions, which are located only in the outer area of the drill bit 1 and
which are not
diametrically opposite one another, but are located in the half of the face of
the drill bit 1 which
is opposite the straight cutter 2'.
The curved cutters 2 both in the embodiment shown in Figures 20 and also the
one
shown in Figure 21 extend as far as for example the circular depression 20
which is concentric
to the axis of the drill bit 1 and which is located in the face of the drill
bit.
In the embodiment of a drill bit 1 as claimed in the invention which is shown
in Figure
21, there are two diametrically opposite straight cutters 2', therefore
straight cutters which lie in
the axial plane of the drill bit 1, and two diametrically opposite cutters 2
which are curved in
opposite directions and which extend from the outside edge of the face of the
drill bit 2 as far as
the depression 20.
The embodiment of a drill bit as claimed in the invention which is shown in
Figures 22
to 26 has an arrangement of the cutters 2 and thus of the cutting edges 3
which on their face
corresponds to Figure 10 and when used for rotary percussive drilling yields
the stop picture
shown likewise in Figure 10 (right).
The embodiment of the drill bit as claimed in the invention which is shown in
Figures 22
to 26, proceeding from its blind hole 5, has three channels 10 which lead from
the outside
peripheral surface 13 of the drill bit 1 and which in the area of the
concavely curved surfaces 12
discharge in the outside surface 13 of the drill bit l, in a manner similar to
the case in the
embodiment of the drill bit which is shown in Figures 1 to 8.
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The embodiment of the drill bit 1 shown in Figures 27 to 31 likewise has a
combination
of curved cutters 2 with one straight cutter l, both the curved cutters 2 and
thus their cutting
edges 3 as well as the straight cutter 2' and its cutting edge 3' end at a
distance from the axis 4 of
the drill bit 1 of Figures 27 to 31.
In the embodiment of the drill bits as shown in Figure 27, proceeding from the
blind hole
of the drill bit 1 there are three channels 10 which are aligned, as has been
described
beforehand using Figures 1 to 8 and 23 to 26, specifically to the face of the
drill bit 1. The
mouths 11 of the channels 10 are located off center to the concavely curved
surfaces 12
(compare Figure 29). Preferably the mouths 11 of the channels 10 in the
section of the surfaces
12 which lies forward in the direction of rotation of the drill bit 1 (in
Figures 27 to 31 the drill bit
1 is designed for rotation clockwise) lie so to speak in the shadow of the
edges between the
jacket surface 13 of the drill bit l and the concave surfaces 12. Thus the
entry of drillings into
the channels 10 is prevented even better than for the mouths 11 which are
located in the middle
in the surfaces 12 (compare Figure 22). Between these channels 10 there are
other channels 10'
which discharge in the outside surface 13 of the drill bit 1 between the
concavely curved
surfaces 12, as can be seen for example from Figures 28 and 29. These channels
10' discharge in
a concavely retracted section of the outside surface 13 of the drill bit 1.
Here the channels 10 of
the drill bit 1 which is shown in Figures 27 to 31, as well as the channels 10
of the embodiments
of the drill bit 1 which are shown on the one hand in Figures 1 to 8 and
Figures 22 to 26 on the
other relative to the axis 4 of the drill bit 1 are slanted pointing toward
the front end (face) of the
drill bit 1. The channels 10' conversely are obliquely aligned to the axis 4
of the drill bit 1
toward their end, therefore tilted away from the face of the drill bit, from
which the blind hole 5
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proceeds, and their mouths 11' lie in a tapering section 13' of the outside
surface 13 of the drill
bit 1. In this alignment of the channels 10' the entry of drillings into the
channels 10' is
prevented. In addition, this alignment has the advantage that the flushing
medium can enter the
drilled hole without sharp deflection of its flow out of the channels 10'.
Even if Figures 27 to 31 show a drill bit 1 with channels 10 and 10', a drill
bit as claimed
in the invention can also be equipped exclusively with the channels 10 shown
as in this Figure or
exclusively with channels 10'.
In summary, one preferred embodiment of the drill bit as claimed in the
invention can be
described as follows:
A drill bit 1 on its face has solely curved cutters 2 or a combination of at
least one
straight cutter 2' with at least two curved cutters 2. The cutters 2, 2' on
the face of the drill bit 1
are arranged such that they proceed from the axis 4 of the drill bit 1 or end
directly adjacent to it.
Channels 10 proceed from the blind hole 5 which is used to attach the drill
bit 1 to the anchor
rod of an injection drill anchor. Their mouths 11 are not located in the area
of the end face of the
drill bit 1, but in the area of its lateral outside surface 13 which widens
conically to the cutters 2,
2'. The mouths 11 of the channels 10 in the area of the concave depressions 12
of the jacket
surface 13 of the drill bit 1 are located such that they are arranged set back
relative to the
periphery of the face of the drill bit 1.
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