Multi-purpose tool, suitable in particular for drilling and cutting

A multi-purpose tool for, successively, drilling a hole in a panel and cutting a piece off the panel beginning from the hole, comprising:

• a single piece generally U-shaped frame having first and second parallel branches jointed together by a connecting branch which is provided so as to extend in a direction generally perpendicular to said parallel branches, said first branch having an integral appendix at its free end provided so as to extend away from said first and second branches, said appendix being integral with said first branch, parallel to said connecting branch and having a free end provided with a drilling tool, said second branch having a free end in the vicinity of which a through hole is provided having an axis substantially parallel to said connecting branch;
• an elongated cutting tool having two ends, each of said ends being provided with a mounting hole;
• securing means provided on said free end of both said first and second branches for removable fixing said elongated cutting tool via said mounting holes;
• a handle separate from said U-shaped frame and made up of a straight rod having a threaded first end and a shoulder near a point along said rod where the threads from said first end terminate, said threaded first end being insertable into said through hole of said second branch to a point where said shoulder contacts said second branch so that said handle is substantially parallel to said connecting branch and extends away from said first and second branches;
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• a nut provided so as to cooperate with said threaded first end of said handle so that said handle is securable on said frame in a first position so as to be rotatable about said axis of said through hole in said second branch, thereby facilitating rotation of said frame during a drilling operation utilizing said drilling tool, and fixedly securable to said frame in a second position so as not to be rotatable, thereby facilitating a cutting operation utilizing said cutting tool.