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US 4,617,692 AGranted
Tool for drilling and securing screw anchor to a wall
AssigneeEmhart Inc.
InventorsMichael E. Bond, Robert S. Noll
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Abstract
A tool is disclosed for both drilling a hole and thereafter securing a screw anchor therein in a quick and expeditious manner. The tool comprises a handle with a threaded stem extending therefrom. The threaded stem allows a screw anchor and a hard plastic drill tip to be threadably mounted thereon. The tool facilates the manual application of sufficient drilling pressure to the thus mounted drill tip so as to form the appropriately sized hole for the screw anchor.
Claims5
A tool for preparing a hole in a wall for receipt of a screw anchor that is to be secured to the wall by the same tool, said tool comprising:
- a handle with a threaded stem extending therefrom, said threaded stem having a length sufficient to allow a screw anchor to be threadably mounted thereon whereby at least two threads of the threaded stem are exposed beyond the end of the thus mounted screw anchor;
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- an integrally formed drill tip having a point and a tapered drilling length extending back from said point, said integrally formed drill tip furthermore having a tapped hole extending along the central axis of the drill tip, said tapped hole having threads therein which match the exposed threads on said threaded stem, said tapped hole furthermore being of sufficient depth so as to allow said drill tip to abut the end of a screw anchor threadably mounted on said threaded stem when said drill tip is threaded onto the exposed threads of said threaded stem, the abutment only being maintained when the drill tip is rotated in a drilling direction so as to drill a hole into a wall structure so as to form a hole for the screw anchor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.