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The Future of Drilling has Arrived!
ICS Cutting Tools Designs the Perfect Point Drill®
--Spring 2000--
The innovative
minds at ICS Cutting Tools have
recently designed a completely new and radical drill, the Perfect
Point®. The general form of this point resembles
a modified form of a flat-bottom drill. However, this drill
includes a helical or spur-style point and a special edge chamfer.
Together, these elements create a drill point with six individual
cutting edges. This point geometry produces a unique cutting
action that allows these drills to function much like center-cutting
end mills. Rather than effecting a drill's customary
action, a Perfect Point Drill® performs much like a rigid,
multi-flute boring tool.
The drill's unique point geometry
gives it a variety of advantages not found with conventional
or specialty point styles. Most notably, these benefits
include an improved cutting action that generates smooth surface
finishes with excellent drilling precision and accuracy. This
design also provides stability while substantially reducing
chatter and vibration that is common with other drill point
shapes.
These drills combine
the best features of metal and wood cutting drills and are well
suited for drilling holes in a wide range of different materials.
They may be used for drilling ferrous and nonferrous metals,
natural and composite wood products and a range of plastics
and similar manufactured materials.
The major design element
that makes the Perfect Point Drill® unique is the overall configuration
and geometry of the drill point. Therefore, virtually
any standard twist drill body style can be furnished with the
Perfect Point®.
Although the different drills are most commonly available in
standard jobbers' lengths, they are also available as stub length
and taper length drills and a selection of extended length drills,
Likewise, they are available with several different shank styles,
including standard straight shanks, 3/8" and 1/2" reduced
diameter shanks, and a complete range of Morse taper shanks.
A
selection of surface treatments or coating is also available
to suit special drilling situations. The most popular surface treatments
for these drills are black oxide, bright finish and Titanium Nitride (TiN).
However, gold finish, gray finish, Titanium Aluminium Nitride (TiAlN),
Titanium Carbonitride (TiCN) and Zirconium Nitride (ZrN) finishes are
available on request.
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Further Information & Sales
Lorna Jaconi - Press & Media Relations
Phone: (920) 837-2526
FAX: (920) 837-2530
Email: lornajaconi@icscuttingtools.com
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