US 12,734,592 B1 · Hole saw combined with annular rabbet maker

Abstract

A tool that is removably attachable to a common handheld drill (or impact driver) generates a through-hole in a section of drywall and also removes some drywall-material around a circumference of the through-hole in the drywall, resulting in an annular rabbet in the section of drywall directly around the through-hole. This tool may include a hole-saw and a rabbet-making-means that are connected to each other. At least some of the rabbet-making-means radially surrounds an outermost diameter of the hole-saw. The hole-saw generates the through-hole (in the drywall). The rabbet-making-means generates the annular rabbet. A flange of a spackle frame is inlaid within the annular rabbet in the drywall such that a bottom exterior surface of the drywall is flush with at least some of a bottom exterior surface of the flange. Spackle frames are used in trimless (trim-less) pot (recessed) lighting installs, particularly in ceilings.

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Dependent claims

A tool that is configured to generate a through-hole in a section of drywall and that is also configured to remove some drywall-material around a circumference of the through-hole that results in an annular rabbet in the section of drywall directly around the through-hole, wherein the tool comprises:

a hole-saw and a rabbet-making-means, wherein at least some of the rabbet-making-means radially surrounds an outermost diameter of the hole-saw;
wherein the hole-saw is configured to generate the through-hole;
wherein the rabbet-making-means is configured to generate the annular rabbet;
wherein the rabbet-making-means comprises:
a larger-circular-base that is larger than a smaller-circular-base of the hole-saw;
an outermost-cylindrical-sidewall that extends upwards from an outer periphery of the larger-circular-base that terminates in an outermost-cutting-means, wherein the outermost-cutting-means is configured to saw into a portion of the section of the drywall defining an outermost edge of the annular rabbet;
and
interior-rabbet-making-means that is attached to at least some of an upper surface of the larger-circular-base, wherein the interior-rabbet-making-means is configured for removing the drywall-material within the portion of the section of the drywall to a fixed and a non-variable depth from an exterior surface of the section of the drywall;
wherein when the tool executes a rotational maneuver of rotating through at least three hundred and sixty degrees around a common-rotational-axis of the tool, a two-dimensional projected shape of that rotational maneuver in the section of the drywall is an annulus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Hole saw combined with annular rabbet maker

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Hole saw combined with annular rabbet maker

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Abstract

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