Boring or penetrating the earth – Processes – Boring with specific fluid
Patent
1982-03-11
1983-02-08
Leppink, James A.
Boring or penetrating the earth
Processes
Boring with specific fluid
175339, 175340, 175422, E21B 1060
Patent
active
043723993
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a drill bit with an eduction jet which discharges drilling mud upwardly through nozzles having wedge shaped apertures oriented such that the wedge shape is tangential to the central axis about which the drill bit rotates. Expelled mud projects a wedge shaped dynamic stream of mud which retains the definition as an eductive column which rotates with the drill bit and therefore has relative motion revolving transverse to the hydrostatic column bearing upon the bit. Throughout the regions in which it retains definition, the eductive column creates a low pressure zone immediately behind it and the low pressure zone enhances the ability of flushing jets to remove cuttings from the bottom of the borehole by drawing the cuttings above the drill bit. The manufacture of drill bits with wedge shaped eduction jets is also disclosed, including the manufacture by modification of conventional tri-cone bits.
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Cantrell Thomas L.
Development Oil Tool Systems
Leppink James A.
Neuder William P.
Schley Joseph H.
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