# US 2013/0156518 A1 · Height Adjustable Overhead Drilling Apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2013/0156518 A1 - Document ID: US20130156518A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/692,898 - Filed: 2012-12-03 - Published: 2013-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2011-12-01 - Inventors: Andrew H. Ward - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130156518A1 ## CPC - B23B 47/26: Liftable or lowerable drill heads or headstocks; Balancing arrangements therefor {(weight and flexion compensation B23Q11/001)} - B23B 39/003: {Drilling machine situated underneath the workpiece} - B23B 39/161: {with parallel work spindles} - B25H 1/0035: {Extensible supports, e.g. telescopic} - B28D 1/14: by boring or drilling (rotary drilling machines B23B; {tools for drilling machines B23B51/00}; portabe percussive machines B25D; {rotary drilling machines for mining or quarrying E21B3/00}) - Y10T 408/21: with signal, indicator, illuminator or optical means - Y10T 408/44: with means to apply transient, fluent medium to work or product - Y10T 408/60: Plural tool-assemblages - B23B: TURNING; BORING (arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q) - B25H: WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS (storing or packaging B65) - B28D: WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A drilling apparatus designed used to drill multiple holes in the bottom surface of an overhead surface. The drilling apparatus includes a lower frame member and an upper frame member longitudinally aligned thereover. The lower frame member includes two vertical uprights perpendicularly aligned and attached to a lower base mounted on caster wheels. A cable attached to a winch selectively lowers and raises the upper frame member over the lower frame member. Attached to the upper end of the upper frame member is a perpendicularly aligned horizontal support member. Mounted on the support member are two or more drill brackets that hold inverted drill motors each with a drill bit at a fixed location and at a fixed angle. At least one drill bracket includes a horizontal alignment flange surface that is used as an alignment surface for a laser placed on the support surface and aimed upward to the precise hole location on the overhead surface. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A drilling apparatus of drilling holes on a raised elevated surface that is located at different heights above a flat support surface, the apparatus comprises: a. a length adjustable frame that includes a lower frame member and an upper frame member, said lower frame member includes a plurality of wheels that enable said lower frame member to be rolled over a flat support surface, the upper frame member includes an upper end; b. a support member attached and transversely aligned to the upper end of the upper frame member; c. at least two drill brackets adjustably attached to the support member, each drill bracket configured to hold a drill in an upward extended position on the support member, at t least one of the brackets includes an outward extending flange surface that is vertically aligned under a center axis of a drill attached to the drill connected to the bracket; d. an upward extending electric drill attached to each drill bracket; and, e. a means for longitudinally extending or retracting the upper frame member from the lower frame member. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the means for longitudinally extending or retracting the upper frame member from the lower frame member is a winch. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 1, further including a vacuum tank attached to the adjustable frame. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 2, further including a vacuum tank attached to the adjustable frame. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 1 further including one or more vacuum hoses attached to the vacuum tank with open nozzle ends that terminate near each drill to removed debris generated by each drill. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 3, wherein the vacuum tank is connected to ports formed on the legs and arms of the lower and upper frame member that transmit vacuum force to the vacuum tubes. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the lower frame member is mounted on base attached to wheels. ### Claim 8 (depends on 3) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 3, wherein the lower frame member is mounted on base attached to wheels. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 8, further including a pair of wheels attached to the upper end of the lower frame that, the pair of wheels being configured so that the adjustable frame may be transported by rolling the adjustable from in a horizontal orientation on a flat surface and then lifted into a vertical position before final placement. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 1, further including a reference point on the bottom surface of the flange surface that may be aligned with an upward laser beam generating device position on the flat support surface and aimed at a desired location on an overhead surface to be drilled. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The drilling apparatus as recited in claim 1, further including at least one electrical receptacle attached to the adjustable frame.