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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7344341 | Drill A portable power drill having an automatic drilling cycle for feeding a rotating tool bit to a workpiece to effect the desired operation. The drill uses a rotary gerotor pump to pump hydraulic fluid used in its system, and pressurized air to operate the hydraulic pu... | 03/18/2008 |
| 6840723 | Working unit for a machine operated tool carrier A working unit intended to be mounted on a movable machine operated tool support includes a casing which is attached to the tool support and which supports a pneumatic turbine motor with a rotor a shank end mill type machining tool with a cutter portion extending ou... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6343900 | Two-speed pneumatic machine tool This pneumatic machine tool includes a driving shaft (14) driven in rotation by pneumatic drive means (12), a driven tool-carrier shaft (16), a gear mechanism (18) disposed between the driving shaft and the driven shaft to drive the latter, a set of senso... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6264408 | Pneumatic tool kit A pneumatic tool kit including a main body, a threaded plug, a connecting seat, at least one grinding member, a protective cover, a saw disk seat, an adjustment seat, at least one edge-milling tool, a stopper board and at least one drilling/milling tool. ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6227773 | Compact autofeed drill and associated drilling method and apparatus A compact autofeed drill is provided and generally comprises an elongate housing having opposed ends, a motor disposed within the housing, an elongate drill bit, a drill bushing, an actuation device, and a resilient member. The motor is disposed within th... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6099213 | Automatic boring device An automatic boring device is provided that comprises a tool housing having attached to it two opposing handles with switches mounted thereon for selective engagement of pneumatic controls that activate a clamping device, rotation of a chuck of a pneumati... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6036409 | Blind hole self-collet countersink This invention is a portable pneumatic cutter tool for cutting countersinks into a workpiece 17 having pre-drilled holes 15. When pressure is applied, a piston return cylinder 57 and a feed rate cylinder 79 are also pressurized, which sets a body piston 7... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5833404 | Portable peck feed drilling system A peck feed drill incorporates a motor gear quill and a feed control assembly together on a moving race track shaped piston. External construction of the housing permits mounting of an indexing adaptor plug for attachment of drill bushings. Internal const... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5752789 | Right angle peck drill The invention provides a unique approach to solving a peck feeding problem in limited access areas restricting the drilling unit size. It uses a power transmission system which is comprised of a pinion gear driven by a motor source. The pinion gear drives... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5674032 | Tooling system and method with integral hydrostatic bearings and turbine power source An integrated tooling system and technique wherein the tool shaft serves as its own spindle and is provided on its surface with hydrostatic bearing grooves for permitting spinning within a supporting bore, and with the shaft connected at its rear end inte... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5613810 | Pneumatic power drill A portable pneumatic power drill whose tool-carrying spindle is rotated by a pneumatic motor. According to the invention spindle speed is under the control of an electric motor as a function of the speed of rotation of the tool-carrier spindle and of inst... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5533842 | Portable peck feed drilling system A peck feed drill incorporates a motor gear quill and a feed control assembly together on a moving race track shaped piston. External construction of the housing permits mounting of an indexing adaptor plug for attachment of drill bushings. Internal const... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5482413 | Pneumatic tool A pneumatic tool comprises a motor element including a body in which a pneumatic motor is housed. The body is connected at one end to a compressed air supply hose together with a device for controlling the entry of compressed air into the motor. At the ot... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5328302 | Air feed peck drill A pneumatic air feed peck drill adapted to drill in repetitive cycles including a rapid advance phase, a slower drilling phase, and a rapid retract phase. The rapid advance phase ends and the drilling phase begins at a set back position, an adjustable dis... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5295770 | Air feed peck drill with pneumatic safety system A pneumatic air feed peck drill adapted to drill in repetitive cycles including a rapid advance phase, a slower drilling phase, and a rapid retract phase. The rapid advance phase ends and the drilling phase begins at a set back position, an adjustable dis... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5205682 | Adjustable dual bit drilling machine A hand-held automatic drilling machine includes an expandable locating collet or locating pin, a pair of adjustably mounted drill bits for simultaneously drilling a pair of spaced-apart openings in a workpiece and a rotary drive motor for the drill bits. ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5073068 | Peck feed drilling machine A peck feed drilling machine incorporates a pneumatically operated vane motor and peck feed components. The vane motor drives a conventional drill bit through a speed reducing gear train. The peck feed assembly includes a plurality of multi-state shuttle ... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5022798 | Thrust-responsive two-speed drill and method of operation A positive feed drill and method of operation is disclosed for drilling through a workpiece consisting of a softer overlay material on a harder base material. The positive feed drill includes a high-speed air motor and a low-speed air motor and will start... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5020968 | System for controlling the rotating speed of a pneumatically driven spindle A rotating speed control system for a pneumatically driven spindle used in a machine tool, comprises a spindle possessing a male-threaded part, a turbine mounted on the spindle by a nut with a convexo-concave portion being formed in one face thereof, a ca... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5007778 | Portable power tool for milling tube ends A portable gas operated rotary tool is provided for milling a surface on the end of a cylindrical workpiece. The tool has a motor powered by a pressurized gas, such as compresseed air. The motor directly drives a rotary milling head which is axially align... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4958963 | Mobile work station for podiatrist An apparatus for assisting a podiatrist in the performance of various para-medical operations on patients. The apparatus consists of a unit movble on the ground as if a dental unit used by dentists. The work unit includes a pneumatic network, connected to... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4915552 | Portable power tool for milling tube ends A portable gas operated rotary tool is provided for milling a surface on the end of a cylindrical workpiece. The tool has a motor powered by a pressurized gas, such as compressed air. The motor directly drives a rotary milling head which is axially aligne... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4889454 | Portable power tool for milling tube ends A portable gas operated rotary tool is provided for milling a surface on the end of a cylindrical workpiece. The tool has a motor powered by a pressurized gas, such as compressed air. The motor directly drives a rotary milling head which is axially aligne... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4850754 | Automatic drilling machine A drilling machine operable to drill holes in desired patterns and diameters in circuit boards and similar items and the machine is provided with a base upon which a planar support is movable parallel to the base respectively in directions transverse to e... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4702650 | Positive feed drill use counter A positive feed drill assembly having an air powered motor and an automatic drill feed and retract mechanism with a normal feed, drill, and retract sequence of operation is provided with an improvement to control the number of times the drill can be used ... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4688970 | Power drill and automatic control system therefore A power drill and automatic control system includes a drill spindle for mounting a rotary cutter, a spindle rotation drive including a drive motor and an associated rotation drive mechanism operably connected to the spindle to rotate it; a spindle feed dr... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4650377 | Right angle drill An improved right angle drill including a pneumatically powered motor and feed and retract apparatus driven by the motor. The feed and retract apparatus includes a control valve for controlling the flow of pressurized air to the motor and to the feed and ... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4534682 | Hand airfeed powertool A feed rate attachment for a drilling tool or the like. The drilling tool is equipped with a piston attached thereto operating within a cylinder positioned against the work-piece. A hydraulic damper is utilized to linearly resist the movement of the drill... | 08/13/1985 |
