Patent ID: 8360133
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: B22C

Abstract:
1. A method of boring a hole in a mold, comprising: preparing a mold boring apparatus including a mold boring tool having a flow passage that is formed inside of the mold boring tool and allows a fluid to flow therethrough, a plurality of slits and a plurality of protruding portions that are formed on an outer peripheral portion of an outer body of a tool blade member of the mold boring tool in a circumferential direction thereof so as to extend from a leading end to a base end of the tool blade member, and a plurality of blades that are inclined inward and are respectively formed at leading ends of the protruding portions formed between the adjacent slits; fitting the tool blade member to a leading end of a support pipe provided for a mount plate of the mold boring apparatus so as to support the tool blade member; introducing the fluid from the support pipe into the flow passage of the tool blade member of the mold boring tool when the mold boring tool is moved in an axial direction thereof to be stuck into sand of the mold; and boring the hole in the mold while the blades of the mold boring tool act to collapse the sand of the mold to an inner side of the tool blade member of the boring tool, and the sand collapsed by the blades is discharged to an outside of the mold through the slits by an action of the fluid flowing from the flow passage into the slits.