AUSTRALIA PATENTS ACT 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION FOR A STANDARD PATENT Name of Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc. Actual Inventors: Heinrich KERSTEN Address for Service: DAVIES COLLISON CAVE, Patent Attorneys, I Nicholson Street, Melbourne, 3000 Invention Title: Rotary hammerdrill bit The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to us.
The present invention relates to a rotary hammerdrill bit for use with a percus 5 sion drilling device or hammer drilling device. An essential criterion for the configuration of drill bits of the type in question is the drill progress per time unit achievable with such a rotary hammerdrill bit, the drill speed, in particular in hammer drill usage for example in concrete or steel 10 reinforced concrete, but also in other wall work, solid rack or the like. A prior art rotary hammerdrill bit for use with a percussion or hammer drilling device (DE 38 25 107 C2) has a main cutting plate that projects over the diame ter of the drill head by a minimal amount. Cutting pins are arranged on a diame 15 ter on both sides of the main cutting plate, and thus are positioned in the same way relative to each drill blade of the main cutting plate. Both drill blades of the main cutting plate have the same completely concave contour in normal projec tion to the plate plane. The free front ends of the cutting pins serve to surface chiseling of the drill hole base, so that each following drill blade of the main cut 20 ting plate can operate more effectively. Quiet operation and adhering to precise drill geometry has already been known to be problematic with the prior art rotary hammerdrill bit. This may have something to do with the fully concave trajectory of both drill blades of the main 25 cutting plate. It has already been proposed to design a rotary hammerdrill bit asymmetrically with cutting pins which are arranged on both sides of a main cutting plate sub stantially symmetrically at an angle of less than 90* of the main cutting axis de 30 fined by the main cutting plate (EP 0 943 780 A2). Quiet operation and precise drill geometry are achieved here in a better way due to the fact that the drill blades of the main cutting plate are extending substantially roof-shaped at an in cline radially from the tip. In contrast to the above discussed prior art there is no concave contour of the drill blades of the main cutting plate. 35 P OPERUPNUO330465Iqadoc-29/2009 -2 The cutting pins of above mentioned prior art (EP 0 943 780 A2) are arranged on the drill head in the same essentially radial positions with the rotation surfaces defined by those cutting pins lying slightly below the rotation surface defined by the drill blades as such as seen in the advance direction of the drill bit. 5 A problem with above described further prior art, however, is the power necessary to achieve a specific drill speed. The two drill blades of the main cutting plate are contacting the concrete in full length and therefore need the highest possible torque. This is only slightly reduced by the fact that in 10 percussion drilling and hammer drilling the movement of the drill head in the advance direction leads to a contact of the cutting pins with the concrete in the drill hole at persistently varying angle positions. Further prior art (EP 0 824 626 BI) shows a drilling tool similar to the drilling 15 tool discussed above but with secondary cutting plates instead of the cutting pins. Here the length of the main cutting plate is supplemented by the lengths of the secondary cutting plates with the result that the torque necessary for this drill bit is more or less the same as in the prior art mentioned before. 20 The problem to be solved with the present invention can be seen in achieving a high drill speed with a reduced torque necessary as well as with quiet operation and precise drill geometry. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a 25 rotary hammer drill bit for use with a percussion drilling device or a hammer drilling device, said hammer drill bit comprising: a shank; a drill head on the shank; the drill head having a front side pointing in an advance direction 30 thereof, said front side having a main cutting plate forming a main cutting axis, wherein the main cutting plate extends beyond a diameter of the drill head, has a tip lying on a longitudinal axis of the drill bit, and includes a plurality of radially inclined drill blades extending outward 35 from the tip along the main cutting axis; and at least one pair of cutting pins which are arranged on both sides of the main cutting plate, wherein PAOPER\PNO03304M5 1sp. dc-2/9/O09 -2A a maximal radial extent of at least one of the pins from the longitudinal axis of the drill bit is smaller than a maximal radial extent of the main cutting plate from the longitudinal axis of the drill bit, and the pins are symmetrically arranged with respect to the main cutting plate at an 5 angle between 200 and 750 with respect to said main cutting axis. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rotary hammer drill bit for use with a percussion drilling device or a hammer drilling device, said hammer drill bit comprising: 10 a shank; a drill head configured to be connected to the shank; a front side pointing in an advance direction of the drill head, said front side has a main cutting plate forming a main cutting axis, wherein the main cutting plate extends over a diameter of the drill 15 head and has a tip lying on a longitudinal axis of the drill bit, said main cutting plate includes a plurality of radially inclined drill blades extending outwardly from the tip along the main cutting axis; at least one pair of cutting pins located radially on the drill head and arranged symmetrically with respect to the main cutting plate at an angle between 20' and 20 750 with respect to said main cutting axis. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drill head connectable to a shank of a rotary hammer drill bit for use with a percussion drilling device or a hammer drilling device, said drill head 25 comprising: a front side pointing in an advance direction of the drill head, said front side has a main cutting plate forming a main cutting axis, wherein the main cutting plate extends over a diameter of the drill head and has a tip lying on a longitudinal axis of the drill head, said main 30 cutting plate includes a plurality of radially inclined drill blades extending outwardly from the tip along the main cutting axis; at least one pair of cutting pins located radially on the drill head and arranged symmetrically with respect to the main cutting plate at an angle less than 90' with respect to said main cutting axis. 35 An example drill bit for use has a percussion drilling device or a hammer drilling device has a shank and a drill head attached to or configured on the P:\OPERUPN 0330465 Ia doc-2/9/2009 - 2B shank, wherein on its front side pointing in the advance direction the drill head has a main cutting plate forming a main cutting axis, wherein the main cutting plate extends at least over the diameter of the drill head, has a tip or tip-edge lying in the longitudinal axis of the rock drill, and forms drill blades that are 5 extending substantially roof-shaped at an incline radially from the tip or tip edge, wherein on its front side pointing in the advance direction the drill head also has at least one pair of cutting pins, wherein the cutting pins are arranged on the drill head in essentially the same radial positions, and are arranged on both sides of the main cutting plate substantially 10 symmetrically at a specific angle of less than 900 to the main cutting axis, wherein the drill blades each have a recess extending against the advance direction in the region of the rotation surface defined by -3 the cutting pins, and wherein the rotation surface defined by the cutting pins projects in the advance direction beyond the rotation surface defined by the drill blades as such without considering the recesses, by approximately 0.1 mm to ap proximately 1.0 mm, 5 As the drill blades of the main cutting plate each have a recess extending against the advance direction in the region of the rotation surface defined by the cutting pins the torque necessary for a required drilling speed is substantially less than with drill blades extending over the full radial length from the tip to the outer pe 10 rimeter of the drill head. This, however, is not leading to a reduced drilling ef fect, because the cutting pins project in the advance direction beyond the rotation surface defined by the drill blades as such. So the cutting pins are effective in chiseling the drill hole base at a drilling diameter where the drill blades leave a circular dam of concrete due to the position of the recesses. This circular dam of is concrete is smashed by the hammer effect of the projecting cutting pins. The measures given in the main claim are the result of extensive testing with an aim to optimise the relationship between drill speed, drill effectiveness and wear on the cutting pins and the drill blades. 20 In practice it has been proven that the asymmetrical (leading and lagging) ar rangement of the cutting pins does not negatively influence the drill speed, but influences it even more positively, and also that the quiet running of the drill bit and the dimensional stability of the holes made With the drill bit are extraordi 25 narily good. Preferred embodiments and further developments of the rotary hammerdrill bit according to the present invention are described in the dependent claims. 30 The invention will now be explained in greater detail herein below by means of a diagram illustrating several embodiments of a rotary hammerdrill bit according to the present invention, in which: 35 -4 Fig. 1 shows an embodiment of rotary hammerdrill bit in general in a lat eral elevation, Fig. 2 shows the rotary hammerdrill bit of Fig. I in a plan view, i.e. a front 5 elevation of the drill head against the advance direction, for expla nation of one aspect of the invention, Fig. 3 shows a sectional view of the drill head in the area of the drill blade lying on the side of the cuffing pins, the position of the cutting pins 10 projected into the plane of the drill blade, Fig. 4 shows a main cutting plate for a rotary hammerdrill bit according to a further embodiment of the invention shown in a top plan view, is Fig. 5 shows a sectional view of the drill head according to a further em bodiment of the invention on the side of the drill blade lying on the side of the cutting pins, again in a projection similar to Fig. 3, here with a main cutting plate according to Fig. 4. 20 The rotary hammerdrill bit for percussion or hammer drilling has a shank 1 (Fig. 1) and a drill head 2 configured on the shank 1. It is not mandatory for the shank 1 and drill head 2 to be designed monobloc. For reasons of force transfer from the shank 1 to the drill head 2 a monobloc design of the drill head 2 on the shank I is the preferred norm, 25 On its front side pointing in the advance direction the drill head 2 has a main cutting plate 4 forming a main cutting axis 3. The main cutting plate 4 extends to the side slightly beyond the outer diameter of the drill head 2, as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. The main cutting plate 4 has a tip edge 5 lying in the longitudinal axis 30 of the rotary hammerdrill bit. Instead of a tip edge 5 a pointed tip can also be formed here. The main cutting plate 4 generally forms drill blades 6, 7 running inclined out from the longitudinal axis, In fact the drill blades 6, 7 are extending substantially 35 roof-shaped at an incline radially from the tip edge 5 towards the outer perimeter of the drill head 2 and, in this embodiment, slightly farther outwards.
-5 In general, this drill head 2 has on its front side pointing in the advance direction a pair of cutting pins 8, 9 arranged on both sides of the main cutting plate 4. The free front ends of the cutting pins 8, 9 project over the rotation surface formed by the drill blades 6, 7 of the drill head 2 in the advance direction. The cutting pins 5 8, 9 are arranged on both sides of the main cutting plate 4 substantially symmet rically at a specific angle of less than 90* to the main cutting axis 3 and thus asymmetrically assigned to one drill blade 6. Both cutting pins 8, 9 are arranged on the drill head 2 in essentially the same radial positions. Therefore, both cut ting pins 8, 9 together define a rotation surface. This rotation surface projects in 10 the advance direction beyond the rotation surface defined by the drill blades 6, 7 as such. Specifically, here the radii which join the cutting pins 8, 9 to the longitudinal axis of the drill head 2 lie at an angle of approximately 600 to the main cutting is axis 3. If the direction of rotation of the drill bit indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2 is assumed, then the cutting pin 8 with respect to the right drill blade 6 is ar ranged leading and the cutting pin 9 -is arranged lagging. The cutting pin 9 is also effective relative to the left drill blade 7, though even with another relative posi tion. With respect to the angle of the cutting pins 8, 9 the specific angle-is pref 20 erably between 200 and 750, in particular between approximately 60' and ap proximately 700. With respect to dimension it has proven appropriate with customary diameters of drill bits, for example in-a drill with a diameter of 16 MM (effective diameter of 25 the main cutting plate 4), for the cutting pins 8, 9 to project beyond the rotation surface of the drill blades 6, 7 as such by approximately 0.1 mm to approxi mately 1.0 mm, preferably by approximately 0.2 to approximately 0.5 mm. In a specific embodiment we have 0.25 mm for diameter 16 mm, and 0.50 mm for di ameter 20 mm, and 0.75 mm for diameter 30 mm. 30 The illustrated embodiment of Fig. 3 shows the cutting pins 8, 9 to be conical. With a greater load the cutting pins 6, 7 can be configured truncated as shown in Fig. 5, With respect to the surface chiseling of the drill hole base and for exam ple chiselling out smaller concrete rocks and gravel truncated cutting pins 8, 9 35 are very effective.
-6 It is recommended to make the cutting pins 8, 9 from a particularly impact resistant metallic material, in particular a specific tungsten carbide. Further, ma terials for the main cutting plate 4 and the other parts of the drill bit as such are known from the prior art. 5 The illustrated embodiments show that the cutting pins 8, 9 are arranged in the radial outer third of the diameter of the drill head 2. The cutting pins 8, 9 absorb substantial axial machining forces and forward these to the drill head 2. The cut ting blades 6, 7 of the main cutting plate 4 are thereby less susceptible to wear 10 and breakage. As can be seen in Fig. 3, to increase the drill speed, in the illustrated and in this respect preferred embodiment the cutting pins 8, 9 are not arranged axially par allel to the longitudinal axis of the shank 1 of the drill bit, but are arranged with 15 their longitudinal axes approximately right-angled to the cutting blade 6. The embodiment illustrated in Fig. 3 in this context shows an arrangement of the cutting pins 8, 9, where their jacket cuts the jacket of the drill head 2 at the upper edge. This takes into consideration that due to the geometric ratios sometimes 20 only very small residual cross-sections remain for embedding the cutting pins 8, 9. It has been discovered that it actually suffices* if the shanks of the cutting pins 8, 9 are not fully embedded at the edges, but have a recoiling receiving line on account of cutting the jacket surface of the drill head 2. 25 In the explanation of Fig. 2 it has been pointed out that the main cutting plate 4 projects over the drill head 2 slightly radially, so that the hole diameter, which can be made using this drill bit, is defined by the outer contour of the main cut ting plate 4. But this corresponds to the usual practice with rotary hammerdrill bits which have embedded the main cutting plate 4 made of hard metal and other 30 impact-resistant materials in the drill head 2. Fig. 3 shows a first embodiment of the invention. First of all, the features which can be obtained from Fig. 2 and the description given above are realised here. In particular the rotation surface defined by the cutting pins 8, 9 projects in the ad 35 vance direction beyond the rotation surface defined by the drill blades 6, 7 as such by approximately 0.1 mm to approximately 1,0 mm. However, in contrast -7 to what is shown in Fig. 2, the drill blades 6, 7 each have a recess 10 extending against the advance direction in the region of the rotation surface defined by the cutting pins 8, 9. The projection of the cutting pins 8, 9 beyond the rotation sur face of the drill blades 6, 7 as such is given without considering the recesses 10 s (see dashed line in Fig. 3); The cutting pins 8, 9 take up the predominant axially acting components of the machining force and remove the dam of concrete mate rial left of the working surface due to the position of the recesses 10. As ex plained above, the recesses 10 have the effect to reduce the effective length of the drill blades 6, 7 and thus reduce the torque necessary for achieving a specific io drilling speed and result. With correspondingly greater diameter of the drill head 2 it is possible to arrange several cutting pins in varying radial arrangement and/or different angle posi tions on the drill head 2, 15 The particularly preferred embodiment illustrated in section in Fig. 3 further shows that in spite of the edge-flush arrangement of the cutting pin 8 the radial outer point of the transition from the cylindrical jacket of the cutting pin 8 to the conical jacket surface of the cutting pin 8 is inside the rotation surface fonned by 20 the drill blades 6, 7 of the main cutting plate 4. Thus the drill hole diameter is still determined by the dimensions of the main cutting plate 4. In Fig. 3 different dimensions are entered, namely the diameter D of the main cutting plate 4, the diameter d of the cutting pin 8, the projection P of the drill 25 blade 6 relative to the drill head 2, the projection p of the cutting pin 8 relative to the drill blade 6, the depth t of the recess 10 and, of major significance, the over hang 0 of the cutting pin 8 relative to its anchoring in the drill head 2. The measurements d, P, p and 0 are interconnected and depending on one another and should be adjusted optimally. 30 Relevant details have been determined by testing. In the illustrated embodiment there are the following dimensions, however as a example: 35 -8 D =25mm d 5mm P =2.5mm p =0.5mm 5 t =0.75 mm - 1,0 mm 0 =3.0 mm An optimal combination of configuration of the main cutting plate 4, arrange ment and configuration of the cutting pins 8, 9 and choice of matching dimen 10 sions are appropriate. As described above, the preferred embodiment of the in vention with frequently used diameters has the cutting pins 8, 9 to project by ap proximately 0.2 nun to approximately 0.5 mm beyond the rotation surface de fined by the drill blades 6, 7 as such, as projected in the drawing of Fig. 3. is The rotary hammerdrill bit of the present invention may preferably be used with diameters of 15 to 45 mm with preferential diameters of 15 and 22 mm (80 % of all sales). Fig. 4 shows a further embodiment of the invention with a main cutting plate 4 20 that is commercially available. Fig. 4 shows this main cutting plate 4 which shows that the drill blades 6, 7 each have one further recess 10' outside the re gion of the rotation surface defined by the cutting pins 8, 9. So the main cutting plate 4 is generally point-symmetric relative to the longitudinal axis of the rotary hanmerdrill bit as such. 25 Fig. 5 shows the position of the cutting pins 8, 9 projected into the plane of the drill blade 6 of a drill bit equipped with a main cutting plate 4 according to Fig. 4. It can be seen that the cutting pin 8 is centered relative to the recess 10 and another recess 10' is positioned outside the region of the rotation surface defined 30 by the cutting pins 8, 9. This further recess 10' here and in the other drill blade 7 leads to a further reduction of the torque required in operation for this drill bit. This arrangement has been revealed to be particularly suitable for the intended purpose. In contrast to the embodiment of Fig. 3 the greatest depth of the recess 35 10 is not offset from the longitudinal axis of the cutting pius 8, 9 but indeed centered to this axis as projected into the plane of the drill blades 6, 7.
P:\OPER'JPNO330465 Isptdo.2/9/2009 -9 Throughout this specification and the claims which follow, unless the context requires otherwise, the word "comprise", and variations such as "comprises" and "comprising", will be understood to imply the inclusion of a stated integer or step or group of integers or steps but not the exclusion of any other integer or step or 5 group of integers or steps. The reference in this specification to any prior publication (or information derived from it), or to any matter which is known, is not, and should not be taken as an acknowledgment or admission or any form of suggestion that that prior 10 publication (or information derived from it) or known matter forms part of the common general knowledge in the field of endeavour to which this specification relates.