TOOL FOR ROUGHENING A BOREHOLE SURFACE

Abstract

A tool for roughening a borehole surface. The tool includes a coupling portion for clamping the tool in a drilling machine; and a tool head for machining the borehole surface, where the tool head comprises a cutter that is circumferentially disposed on the tool head, and where the tool head has at least one slit, which passes through from one side to the other and which, starting from an end face of the tool head, and extends axially along a longitudinal axis of the tool.

Claims

1: A tool for roughening a borehole surface, comprising: a coupling portion for clamping the tool in a drilling machine; and a tool head for machining the borehole surface, wherein the tool head comprises a cutter that is circumferentially disposed on the tool head, and wherein the tool head has at least one slit, which passes through from one side to the other and which, starting from an end face of the tool head, and extends axially along a longitudinal axis of the tool.

2: The tool according to claim 1, the tool head has at least two radially resilient arms, which extend along the slit and at free end portions thereof, adjacent to the end face carry the cutter.

3: The tool according to claim 1, the tool head has at least two mutually intersecting slits that extend, starting from an end face of the tool head, axially along the longitudinal axis of the tool.

4: The tool according to claim 3, wherein a first slit has a greater length along the longitudinal axis of the tool than a second slit.

5: The tool according to claim 3, wherein the slits intersect one another at an angle smaller than or equal to 90.

6: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the tool is configured symmetrically at least in portions.

7: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the slit, at bottom facing away from an end face thereof, has a concave rounding.

8: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the cutter comprises at least two carbide and/or diamond pins pointing radially away from the longitudinal axis of the tool and are distributed in axial direction and/or circumferentially on the tool head.

9: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the tool head is substantially cylindrical and/or has a cambered outer contour.

10: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the coupling portion is present at a first end of a tool shank and the tool head at an opposite second end of the tool shank, and wherein the tool shank is at least twice as long as the tool head in axial direction.

11: The tool according to claim 10, the tool shank has a diameter smaller than that of the tool head.

12: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the slit comprises, at least in portions, an elastic filling material.

13: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the tool head has a cylindrical recess that starts from the end face and extends along the longitudinal axis of the tool.

14: The tool according to claim 1, wherein a geometrically determined cutting geometry is provided in the region of the tool head, in addition to the cutter.

15: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the at least one slit extends through the center axis of the tool.

16: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the at least one slit has different widths along the longitudinal axis of the tool.

17: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the cutter comprises a multiplicity of carbide and/or diamond pins pointing radially away from the longitudinal axis of the tool and are distributed in axial direction and/or circumferentially on the tool head.

18: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the coupling portion is present at a first end of a tool shank and the tool head at an opposite second end of the tool shank, and wherein the tool shank is at least three times as long as the tool head in axial direction.

19: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the slit comprises, at least in portions, an elastomer.

20: The tool according to claim 1, wherein the tool head has a bore that starts from the end face and extends along the longitudinal axis of the tool.

Description

[0032] The invention will be described in more detail hereinafter on the basis of a drawing that schematically illustrates exemplary examples, wherein:

[0033] FIG. 1 shows a first configuration of an inventive tool in a perspective view, a front view and a reduced side view;

[0034] FIG. 2 shows a second configuration of an inventive tool in a perspective view, a front view and two side views;

[0035] FIGS. 3a-3c show variants for arrangement of the slits in the region of the tool head in perspective and front views;

[0036] FIGS. 4a, 4b show variants for arrangement of carbide pins in the region of the tool head;

[0037] FIG. 5 shows a configuration of the tool head with a cutting geometry

[0038] FIG. 6 shows a configuration of the tool head with a step change in the slit profile.

[0039] FIG. 1 shows a first configuration of a tool 10 for roughening a borehole surface.

[0040] Tool 10 has a coupling portion 12 for clamping tool 10 in a drilling machine (not illustrated), a tool head 14 for machining a borehole surface (not illustrated) and a tool shank 16 joining a coupling portion 12 and tool head 14. Coupling portion 12 is disposed at a first end and tool head 14 at a second end, opposite the first end, of tool shank 16.

[0041] Tool shank 16 is more than twice as long as tool head 14 along an axial direction a. The diameter of tool shank 16 corresponds to that of coupling portion 12 and is smaller than the diameter of tool head 14.

[0042] Tool head 14 is substantially cylindrical and has circumferentially disposed, radially protruding carbide pins 18. Carbide pins 18 are facing radially outward and extend in a radial direction r2 transverse to axial direction a.

[0043] Tool head 14 has a slit 20 which, starting from an end face 22 of tool head 14, extends axially along longitudinal axis A of the tool as well as laterally from one to an opposite shell-surface portion, meaning that it passes though from one side to the other and divides tool head 14.

[0044] Thus tool head 14 has two arms 24 extending along slit 20. At their free end portions 26 adjacent to end face 22, arms 24 carry circumferential carbide pins 18.

[0045] As an example, three carbide pins 18 disposed adjacent to one another in axial direction are provided on each arm. It will be understood that diamond pins may be provided alternatively or additionally as cutting means.

[0046] Arms 24 are configured with mirror symmetry relative to a plane defined by axial direction a and radial direction r1. Arms 24 have flat faces 28, which face one another and are disposed with constant spacing from one another. In other words, slit 20 has a substantially constant gap width.

[0047] At its bottom facing away from end face 22, the slit has a concave rounding 30. Rounding 30 is a radial through-bore. Tool head 14 has a cylindrical recess 32, which is constructed here as a bore, that starts from end face 22 and extends along longitudinal axis A of the tool.

[0048] For roughening a borehole surface, tool 10 is introduced with its tool head 14 into a borehole. For this purpose, tool 10 is clamped with coupling portion 12 in a drilling machine. The nominal diameter of the borehole is smaller than the diameter of an outer envelope circle of tool 10 defined by carbide pins 18. During introduction of tool head 14 into the borehole, carbide pins 18 are therefore forced radially inward by the borehole surface, in the direction of longitudinal axis A of the tool. In this way, slit 20 is narrowed. In this condition, carbide pins 18 bear on the borehole surface and are resiliently braced elastically against the borehole surface via arms 24, which are elastically bent inwardly.

[0049] Rotation of the tool imposed by the drilling machines causes carbide pins 18 to penetrate into the borehole surface and introduce furrows or undercuts in the borehole surface. The borehole may be a blind hole.

[0050] For roughening the borehole surface, tool 10 merely has to be introduced by translation along longitudinal axis A of the tool into the borehole. The radial cutting forces are achieved solely by the resiliently elastic preload of tool head 14, and so no radial force has to be transmitted into tool 10 by the user.

[0051] FIG. 2 shows a second configuration of a tool 10. The basic structure and the manner of functioning of tool 10 illustrated in FIG. 2 correspond substantially to those of the embodiment described in the foregoing with reference to FIG. 1. Like features are therefore denoted hereinafter by like reference symbols, and only differences between the individual tools will be discussed.

[0052] Compared with FIG. 1, tool 10 illustrated in FIG. 2 has a modified coupling portion 12. In the exemplary embodiment illustrated here, a bore 32 at the end face is omitted, and so only a slit 20 is present. Carbide pins 18 disposed in end portion 26 are more closely packed in axial direction a than in the example described in the foregoing.

[0053] FIGS. 3a to 3c illustrate three different variants for arrangement of slits 20 in the region of tool head 14. FIG. 3a shows a tool head 14 in a perspective view and a front view. Tool head 14 has two slits 20 that intersect one another in the center axis of the tool, so that four arms 22 in total are formed, each carrying one carbide pin 18. Tool head 14 has symmetrical structure.

[0054] FIG. 3b likewise shows a tool head 14 with two mutually intersecting slits 20, but wherein one of the slits 20 has a greater length along the longitudinal axis of the tool than does the other slit.

[0055] FIG. 3c shows a further variant of a tool head 14, which differs from the variants described in the foregoing in that slits 20 do not pass through tool head 14 at right angles but instead are oriented obliquely relative to one another. Arms 24, disposed opposite to one another in pairs, therefore have different wall thicknesses and cross sections, as can be inferred from the front view.

[0056] FIGS. 4a and 4b show variants for arrangement of carbide pins 18 in the region of tool head 14. FIG. 4a shows an axial arrangement of the carbide pins, while FIG. 4b represents a circumferential distribution, in which the carbide pins are disposed with angular spacing from one another relative to the longitudinal axis of the tool.

[0057] FIG. 5 shows a configuration of tool head 14 with a cutting geometry 34. Arms 24 are shaped at the end face in the manner of a drill, wherein a drill tip split by slit 20 is formed along longitudinal axis A of the tool.

[0058] Naturally, tool head 14 may be manufactured separately and mounted on the shank detachably or permanently.

[0059] FIG. 6 shows a configuration of tool head 14 with a step change in the slit profile, so that slit 20, 20 has a different slit width along longitudinal axis A of the tool, wherein the slit, starting from the top end of the tool head, has a greater width over a region (slit 20) in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the tool than over the connecting region (slit 20) in the direction of its bottom facing away from the front end. Due to the broader slit region 20, arms 24 at the end of the tool head are able to be deflected resiliently inward sufficiently, corresponding to the borehole diameter, in the direction of longitudinal axis A of the tool, especially in the case of small borehole diameters, wherein the spring force is adjusted by the narrower slit 20.