Hammer drill

• US 4,703,942 A
• Filed: 03/13/1986
• Issued: 11/03/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gunter H. Rohm
• Original Assignee: Gunter H. Rohm
• Inventors: Rohm, Gunter H.
• Primary Examiner(s): BILINSKY, ZENON
• Application Number:
  US06/839,789
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 279/19-19.7, 279/60-65, 279/75, 173/48, 408/239 R, 408/239 A
• US Class Current: 279/19.4
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 31/123 with locking arrangements locking arrangements for chucks with simultaneously-acting jaws moving radially actuated by one or more spiral grooves B23B31/16041
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 31/1238 Jaws movement actuated by a nut with conical screw-thread
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/17076 Spreading elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 279/17632 Conical sleeve

Abstract

A drill chuck can be operated with or without an axial displacement mode with respect to the drill spindle. For operation without the axial displacement mode, lock formations can be moved by way of a coupling ring to engage with a seat portion of a contact sleeve which is fixed to the drill spindle. The lock formations are part of resilient lock strips which are cut from the wall of a lock sleeve secured at the chuck body. The lock formations can be contacted by control projections of the coupling ring. The coupling ring can be moved in axial direction towards the drill spindle so that the contact sleeve is secured due to engagement of the lock formations at the seat portion. At the same time, the chuck body contacts at a spring ring secured to the contact sleeve, and the relative axial movements between the chuck body and the contact sleeve or the drill spindle cannot take place.

Claims

1. A percussion drill assembly comprising:

a hollow percussion drill spindle formed with coupling retainers;

an impact rod axially disposed and guided in said spindle for imparting a percussion action to a drill bit;

a drill chuck rotatably entrained with spindle and axially displaceable thereon in a mode with axial displacement and being held against axial displacement in a mode without axial displacement, said drill chuck including a body with an axially directed passage therethrough for transferring the action of said rod to said drill bit, said chuck body being formed with chuck jaws engaging said bit and with coupling retainers cooperating with the retainers of said spindle;

a control ring for actuating said jaws for gripping and releasing said bit, said control ring having teeth in one face thereof;

an axially displaceable coupling ring mounted for precluding and enabling axial displacement of said chuck with respect to said spindle, said coupling ring being formed with a rim directed towards said control ring having a plurality of teeth which on axially positioning of the coupling ring towards a drill bit end of the chuck can operatively engage in the teeth of said control ring;

a contact sleeve between said chuck body and said coupling ring and having annular seat portion at an outer side providing a first lock component; and

a lock sleeve on said chuck body, extending an effective distance into an annular space left between said contact sleeve and said coupling ring, said lock sleeve having a projecting lock formation providing a second component such that, when said coupling ring is held nearer the drill spindle, said second lock component is held in a radially inwardly directed position such that it effectively contacts said first lock component, and said second lock component can be moved, when said coupling ring is closer to said drill, radially outwardly to be released from said first lock component.

2. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said second lock component is actuated by said coupling ring.

3. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said chuck body is formed with a groove having an effective length in conformity with the axial displacement of said chuck body at said drill spindle, said assembly further comprising a spring ring secured at the inner circumferential wall of said contact sleeve to provide an abutment for limiting the axial displacement by being adapted to be selectively contacted by a respective flank of said groove.

4. The assembly defined in claim 3 wherein said groove is an annular groove.

5. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said second lock component is a strip or similar projection which carries at the inner side the lock formation which is shaped as a radial lock nose.

6. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said lock sleeve is secured approximately coterminously with that contact sleeve.

7. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein at least a portion of said lock sleeve is axially secured at said chuck body.

8. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said second lock component points in the direction of said drill spindle.

9. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said second lock component is a radially outwardly directed and resilient lock formation cut from the wall of said lock sleeve.

10. The assembly defined in claim 9 wherein said lock formation is pretensioned.

11. The assembly defined in claim 1 and further comprising a control projection at said coupling ring.

12. The assembly defined in claim 11 wherein said control projection is a spring ring which is mounted in an annular groove in said coupling ring.

13. The assembly drfined in claim 1 wherein said first lock component has an inclined annular surface which is adapted to be contacted with the second lock component, and said second lock component including a matching inclined surface.

14. The assembly defined in claim 12 wherein an annular space is provided between said lock sleeve and said coupling ring, and further comprising a spring which urges said coupling ring in the direction towards the respective drill.

15. The assembly defined in claim 14 wherein said spring is disposed between an annular shoulder of said coupling ring and a support ring at said lock sleeve.

16. The assembly defined in claim 15 wherein said coupling ring is guided at said lock sleeve by way of said support ring and said spring ring.

17. The assembly defined in claim 9 wherein three lock formations are provided in uniform spacing about the chuck circumference.

18. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein the chuck jaws are centrically adjusted by said control ring.

19. The assembly defined in claim 1 wherein said coupling ring is shaped with an interior cam formation recess, further comprising at least one contact head arranged at said chuck body and adapted to operatively extend into a cam formation recess of said coupling ring, wherein said cam formation recess is comprised of two axial grooves which extend adjacent to one another, but each having a distinct length, and which are open when considered in the direction towards said control ring for the entry of said at least one contact head, wherefore said coupling ring can be turned on the chuck body to such an extent that either one or the other of the two grooves is axially aligned with said at least one contact head.

20. The assembly defined in claim 19 wherein said at least one contact head includes at least one leg extending in the longitudinal direction of said grooves, and wherein the walls of said at least one leg from contact surfaces for the respective lateral walls of said grooves.