Square Drilling

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SQUARE DRILLING
CONTENTS
OBJECTIVE
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE REVIEW
WORKING CONCEPT
PROBLEM FORMULATION
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
DESIGN OF TOOL
EXPERIMENTAL MODEL
CONCLUSION
OBJECTIVE
Our objectives with this research work are:
1. To design a drill bit in the shape of reuleaux triangle for drilling square holes.
2. To design the drill chuck mechanism to produce the motion that could turn the drill bit in
rotary as well as spinning motion on the basis of reuleaux triangle.
Our design consists of following components:
•a reuleaux triangle drill bit revolving inside a square frame
•shaft
•universal joint
•slip joint
3. To make the square drilling bed on which the tool will be tested after completion.
INTRODUCTION
Available drilling machines are drill in circular shape but not capable of drill in square shaped as require in
specimen show below. So we want to design an attachment so that square hole makes possible with available
drill machine.
A drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit,
used for boring holes in various materials or fastening various materials together with the use of fasteners. The
attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of the drill and rotated while pressed against the target material.
The tip, and sometimes edges, of the cutting tool does the work of cutting into the target material. This may be
slicing off thin shavings (twist drills or auger bits), grinding off small particles (oil drilling), crushing and
removing pieces of the workpiece (SDS masonry drill), countersinking, counterboring, or other operations.
Drills are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, construction and do-it-yourself projects. Specially
designed drills are also used in medicine, space missions and other applications. Drills are available with a wide
variety of performance characteristics, such as power and capacity.
But for square drilling we require to use “Reuleaux triangle”.

LITERATURE REVIEW
Reuleaux Triangle
A Reuleaux triangle is the simplest and best known

Reuleaux polygon, a curve of constant width. The
separation of two parallel lines tangent to the curve in
independent of their orientation. The term derives its
name from Franz Reuleaux, a 19 th century German
engineer who did pioneering work on ways that machine
translate one type of motion into another.
REULEAUX TRIANGLE
A Reuleaux triangle is the simplest and best known
Reuleaux polygon. It is a curve of constant width,

meaning that the separation of two parallel lines
tangent to the curve is independent of their
orientation. Because all diameters are the same, the
Reuleaux triangle is one answer to the question "Other
than a circle, what shape can a manhole cover be made
so that it cannot fall down through the hole?" The
term derives from Franz Reuleaux, a 19th-century
The Reuleaux triangle is a constant
German engineer who did pioneering work on ways
that machines translate one type of motion into width curve based on an equilateral
another, although the concept was known before his triangle. All points on a side are
time. equidistant from the opposite
vertex.
WORKING CONCEPT
With a compass, sweep an arc sufficient to enclose the desired figure. With radius
unchanged, sweep a sufficient arc centered at a point on the first arc to intersect
that arc. With the same radius and the centre at that intersection sweep a third
arc to intersect the other arcs. The result is a curve of constant width.
Equivalently, given an equilateral triangle T of side length s, take the boundary of
the intersection of the disks with radius s centered at the vertices of T.
By the Blaschke–Lebesgue theorem, the Reuleaux triangle has the least area of
any curve of given constant width. This area is , where s is the constant
width. The existence of Reuleaux polygons shows that diameter measurements
alone cannot verify that an object has a circular cross-section.

To construct a Reuleaux triangle
The area of Reuleaux triangle is smaller than that of the disk of the same width (i.e. diameter); the area of such a disk is .
In geometry, a curve of constant width is a convex planar shape whose width (defined as the perpendicular distance between
two distinct parallel lines each having at least one point in common with the shape's boundary but none with the shape's interior)
is the same regardless of the orientation of the curve.
More generally, any compact convex planar body D has one pair of parallel supporting lines in any given direction. A
supporting line is a line that has at least one point in common with the boundary of D but no points in common with the interior
of D. The width of the body is defined as before. If the width of D is the same in all directions, the body is said to have constant
width and its boundary is a curve of constant width; the planar body itself is called an orbiform.
The width of a circle is constant: its diameter. On the other hand, the width of a square varies between the length of a side and that
of a diagonal, in the ratio . Thus the question arises: if a given shape's width is constant in all directions, is it necessarily a
circle? The surprising answer is that there are many non-circular shapes of constant width. A nontrivial example is the
Reuleaux triangle. To construct this, take an equilateral triangle with vertices ABC and draw the arc BC on the circle centered at A,
the arc CA on the circle centered at B, and the arc AB on the circle centered at C. The resulting figure is of constant width.
The Reuleaux triangle lacks tangent continuity at three points, but constant-width curves can also be constructed without such
discontinuities (as shown in the second illustration on the right). Curves of constant width can be generated by joining circular
arcs centered on the vertices of a regular or irregular convex polygon with an odd number of sides (triangle, pentagon, heptagon,
etc.)
PROBLEM FORMULATION
To design a mechanism for drill bit that would make a
square hole by spinning about its axis as well as

rotatory movement in the shape of Reuleaux triangle
using floating drill chuck assembly. To drill the square
hole in the wood, the drill must define the path of
Reuleaux triangle’s centroid rolling inside a square.
NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE
Generally, the drill used most often is used to drill a round hole used for many products,
machines, nut-bolts fastening, etc. But, there are many applications where drilling a
square hole is required that could not be attained with general purpose round drill bits.
However, if we are able to design a square drill, it would be very advantageous as it
would reduce the overall time and equipments required in order to make a square hole
from a round hole. So, this square drill is very suitable for designing of many products
that require square hole. A mechanism for drilling square holes has to turn circular
motion into square motion. Now the idea of using a spinning drill bit to create a square
hole
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The reuleaux triangle drill bit has the shape of reuleaux
triangle and it is a elongated bar section. The straight

flutes are cut on it. There will be three flutes cut on it,
since this drill bit will be having three faces. These
flutes are provided on it in order to provide a path for
the chips to escape through them. Only straight flutes
are cut because the helical flutes can damage the
profile of the reuleaux triangle drill bit. The straight
flute drill bits although are less efficient to chip
disposal than helical drills, but with the slight
modification can serve the purpose. The figure below
shows the geometry of reuleaux triangle drill bit.
Geometry of reuleaux triangle drill bit

DESIGN OF TOOL
This shaped tool used to
cut the material from any

block in square shaped &
this whole assembly
attached to Drilling
machine so that we can cut
material in desired shape
as shown in figure.
TOOL AND FIXTURE
TOOL
FIXTURE
EXPERIMENTAL MODEL
CONCLUSION
We have frequent application of Square hole. By using
another method, to generate square hole is quite time

consumable and costly. With development of Square
hole Drilling Machine, it simplify manufacturing
square hole at low cost and time. It is compact
machine which provide flexibility to produce square
hole with reduction in manufacturing cost.
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rotary as well as spinning motion on the basis of reuleaux triangle.

Our design consists of following components:

•a reuleaux triangle drill bit revolving inside a square frame

variety of performance characteristics, such as power and capacity.

But for square drilling we require to use “Reuleaux triangle”.

A Reuleaux triangle is the simplest and best known

Reuleaux polygon. It is a curve of constant width,

Equivalently, given an equilateral triangle T of side length s, take the boundary of

the intersection of the disks with radius s centered at the vertices of T.

width. The existence of Reuleaux polygons shows that diameter measurements

alone cannot verify that an object has a circular cross-section.

In geometry, a curve of constant width is a convex planar shape whose width (defined as the perpendicular distance between

is the same regardless of the orientation of the curve.

square hole by spinning about its axis as well as

However, if we are able to design a square drill, it would be very advantageous as it

The reuleaux triangle drill bit has the shape of reuleaux

triangle and it is a elongated bar section. The straight

Geometry of reuleaux triangle drill bit

cut the material from any

another method, to generate square hole is quite time

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