Cutting tools

• US 4,834,655 A
• Filed: 04/16/1987
• Issued: 05/30/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: G-C Dental Industrial Corporation
• Original Assignee: G-C Dental Industrial Corporation
• Inventors: Kyotani, Ikuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Samuel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Flanigan, Allen J.
• Application Number:
  US07/038,900
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 433/165, 433/166, 51/206 R, 51/206 P, 408/145
• US Class Current: 433/166
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 3/02 Tooth drilling or cutting instruments; Instruments acting like a sandblast machine
• CPC Class Codes: B24D 7/10 with cooling provisions

Abstract

A cutting tool include a shank having a head, a groove which is formed on the outer face portion of the head only in the dextrally spiral form, and hard abrasive grains-attached section formed on the outer face portion of the head except for the groove. The total sum of the width of the groove in the section normal to the axis of the head of the shank is in a range of (1/50 to 2/5)×πD, except for the endmost terminating portion of the head, wherein D is the diameter of the section normal to the axis of the head.

Claims

1. A dental rotary cutting tool comprising:

(a) a shank;

(b) a head; and

(c) a neck connecting said shank and said head, wherein;

(d) said head comprises a truncated cone having a surface symmetrical about an axis of revolution;

(e) at least two dextrally spiral grooves are formed in the surface of said head;

(f) hard abrasive grains are mounted on the surface of said head except in said at least two dextrally spiral grooves;

(g) the total sum of the width of said at least two dextrally spiral grooves in all sections normal to the axis of said head except for the endmost terminating portion of said head is in the range of (1/50 to 2/5) times π

D, wherein D is the diameter of the section normal to the axis of said head;

(h) each of said at least two dextrally spiral grooves has an angle θ

of inclination with respect to the axis of said head of 5 degrees to 60 degrees;

(i) at least one of said at least two dextrally spiral grooves extends at least substantially the entire length of said head; and

(j) at least one of said at least two dextrally spiral grooves extends from the wider end of said head to a point substantially short of the narrower end of said head.