Patent ID: 8596916

Claim:
A drilling apparatus for drilling underground passageways which can be attached to a drill stem formed of joined drill stem sections and can pull a conduit into the passageway while drilling the same and can be released in the passageway with the conduit comprising: (a) an elongated hollow round body member, (b) a rotating collar positioned on said body member said collar having at least one bracket extending radially outwardly from a surface of said collar, said bracket having at its end not attached to the collar an opening for attaching the conduit member other than a drill stem, (c) a drill bit positioned on a front end of said body member, (d) a coupling means located on a rearward portion of said body member adapted to be attached to one of the drill stem sections and easily released from said drill stem section upon reversing rotation of the drill stem in the underground passageway.