Combined impact and pressure liquid rock drill
CA 1136118 A · Owner: Dravo Corporation · Inventors: Briggs, Aubrey C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A conventional type of impact rock drill is modified to include a fluid reservoir, valve and piston arrangement whereby each impact stroke of the driver ejects water at high pressure from the cutter bit, thereby increasing the mechanical cutting through hydraulic action of a small volume of high pressure jet of water.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted November 23, 1982. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 23, 1999.
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