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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frederick R Kanigan, Nelson, CA;
Assignee:
The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21C / ; A01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
175396 ; 172381 ; 294 507 ;
Abstract
A hand auger comprises a frustoconical sheet of material split along a lateral strip to form a pair of lateral edges in spaced relation radially and circumferentially. One of the edges is an inner edge of predetermined length and the other of the edges is an outer edge having a length longer than the predetermined length and extending beyond the inner edge at the bottom edge of the sheet. The bottom edge of the sheet is of spiral configuration from the bottom of the inner edge to the bottom of the outer edge. The base edge is of split circular configuration.