Hole saw with particle-aspirating accessory for hand drill

Abstract

A hole saw for use in a hand drill has a cup centered on a rotation axis and having a rim centered on this axis and provided with a plurality of teeth. This cup has a shaft extending backwardly along the axis and adapted to be received in a drill chuck so that when the shaft and cup are rotated about the axis the teeth can sink into a workpiece and cut a large-diameter hole therein. The cup is formed at its base with a bore lying on the axis and opening into the cup and with a passage extending non-axially from the bore to the outer surface of the shaft. A pilot bit has a shank non-rotatably received in this bore and a tip extending axially beyond the rim of the cup so that this pilot bit serves to center the drill accessory during the start of a hole-making operation. A collar is fitted to the outside of the drill shank over the passage and is connected to aspirating means so as to aspirate particles from inside the cup. Such aspiration can be aided after the start of a drilling operation by removing the drill shank from the bore, or by forming grooves in the shank or the bore for conduction of particles backwardly to the passage.

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