Inventors:
William T. Marston - Milton MA
Assignee:
Crafts Precision Industries, Inc. - Canton MA
International Classification:
G01N 342
Abstract:
An indenter used in hardness testing apparatus to penetrate hard metals and other materials consists of a shank body having at its end a conical frustum with a cylindrical recess extending axially from that end, and a cone of polycrystalline diamond bonded to a hard metal rod which, in turn is bonded in the cylindrical recess concentrically with the axis of the body.