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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1994
Robert W Britzke, Rogers, AR (US);
Jimmy Eason, Rogers, AR (US);
Zhigang Fang, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Rogers Tool Works, Inc., Rogers, AR (US);
Abstract
A drill but having a drill body with a cutting tip, an axis of symmetry, and a plurality of flutes wherein said flutes have a rake surface at said cutting tip. The cutting tip includes a plurality of side blades between said flutes and joined at a web, a plurality of flank surfaces extending from an outer diameter of said cutting tip to said axis of symmetry, and a plurality of primary cutting edges at the intersection of said flank surfaces with said rake surfaces. Both the rake and flank surfaces have extensions which would intersect each other at an intersection. The primary cutting edges include an angular surface formed on the forward end of said rake surfaces which is located such that the length of said extension of said rake surface measured between said angular surface and said intersection is a first predetermined value and the length of said extension of said flank surface measured between said angular surface and said intersection is a second predetermined value. The primary cutting edges also have a hardened layer formed from the outer surface of the primary cutting edge.