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Insert for a drilling tool bit and a method of drilling therewith

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OSTI ID:5837000
A method is described of drilling a hole in a hard material such as rock, coal, masonry, concrete, and the like comprising: positioning a drilling tool having a drilling tool bit insert comprising a shaped substrate formed of a hard, fracture resistant material and coated with one or more thin adherent layers of refractory coating material. The material of each layer comprises a composition independently selected from the group consisting of carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides of titanium, hafnium, vanadium, tantalum, and niobium, and oxides of aluminum and zirconium, and mixtures and solid solutions thereof; rotating the drilling tool bit insert at a sufficient rate and applying the sufficient thrust to the drilling tool bit insert to drill the hole in the hard material.
Assignee:
GTE Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA
Patent Number(s):
US 4696352
OSTI ID:
5837000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English