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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Werner Kleine, Achim, DE;

Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Munich, DE;

Udo Hauptmann, Landsberg/Lech, DE;

Martin Richter, Freising, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 1/038 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 1/038 ;
Abstract

A rock drilling tool including a tip ( ) formed of a hard material and provided at one end of the tool stem and a shank ( ) provided at an opposite end of the stem ( ) and having a plurality of entrain grooves ( ) extending up to a free end surface of the shank ( ), with an entire recessed surface ( ) of an entrain groove ( ) being larger than an entire outer surface ( ) of a groove-forming rest web ( ), and with a mean rest cross-sectional area (A′), which is measured within an axial section of the drilling tool having a length at least equal to a product of a natural logarithm base and a stem diameter (e×D), deviating from a mean rest cross sectional area (A) along the entire tool length maximum by 20%.


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