Drill force indicator for hand-operated drills
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorIsaac Charles Schevers
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Abstract
An apparatus for indicating a drilling thrust of a hand-operated drill includes a thrust-indicator assembly for attaching between a drill motor and a drill chuck of the hand-operated drill to indicate the drilling thrust. A method of indicating a drilling thrust asserted on a hand-operated drill includes: attaching a thrust-indicator assembly between a drill motor and a drill chuck of a hand-operated drill; and indicating, with the thrust-indicator assembly, a drilling thrust asserted on the drill chuck.
Claims20
An apparatus which indicates a drilling thrust of a hand-operated drill comprising:
- a thrust-indicator assembly for attaching between a drill motor and a drill chuck of a hand-operated drill to indicate a drilling thrust.
A hand-operated drill comprising:
- a drill motor;
- a drill chuck;
- and
- a thrust-indicator assembly attachable between the drill motor and the drill chuck for indicating a drilling thrust of the hand-operated drill.
A method of indicating a drilling thrust asserted on a hand-operated drill comprising:
- attaching a thrust-indicator assembly between a drill motor and a drill chuck of a hand-operated drill;
- and
- indicating with the thrust-indicator assembly a drilling thrust asserted on the drill chuck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.