Boring or penetrating the earth – Tool removable or insertable through or around driving or... – Laterally shiftable cutter element movable through shaft
Patent
1974-04-26
1976-05-11
Leppink, James A.
Boring or penetrating the earth
Tool removable or insertable through or around driving or...
Laterally shiftable cutter element movable through shaft
E21B 926
Patent
active
039556336
ABSTRACT:
A drill in which a drilling apparatus is releasably mounted on the bottom of a drill string and on release can be withdrawn upwardly through the drill string by wire-line. The main cutting bit is disposed on the bottom end of the removable apparatus and the apparatus includes expandable cutters disposed above the main cutting bit to ream the hole cut by the main bit to permit the drill string to follow down the hole. The cutters are retracted for withdrawal of the apparatus.
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patent: 1197882 (1916-09-01), Woodand
patent: 2239996 (1941-04-01), Chappell
patent: 3552509 (1971-01-01), Brown
Leppink James A.
Mindrill Limited
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