Drill bit with multiple cutting structures
AssigneeVarel Europe S.A.S.
InventorsAlfazazi Dourfaye, Gilles Gallego, Bruno Cuillier de Maindreville
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Abstract
A bit for drilling a wellbore includes: a shank having a coupling formed at an upper end thereof; a body removably attached to a lower end of the shank and having a blade receptacle formed therethrough; a blade fixed to the body; a plurality of superhard cutters mounted along a leading edge of the fixed blade; a blade disposed in the blade receptacle and longitudinally movable relative to the body between an extended position and a retracted position; a plurality of superhard cutters mounted along a leading edge of the movable blade; and a spring disposed between the shank and the movable blade and biasing the movable blade toward the extended position.
Claims15
A bit for drilling a wellbore, comprising:
- a shank having a coupling formed at an upper end thereof;
- a body removably attached to a lower end of the shank and having a blade receptacle formed therethrough;
- a blade fixed to the body;
- a plurality of superhard cutters mounted along a leading edge of the fixed blade;
- a blade disposed in the blade receptacle and longitudinally movable relative to the body between an extended position and a retracted position;
- a plurality of superhard cutters mounted along a leading edge of the movable blade;
- and
- a spring disposed between the shank and the movable blade and biasing the movable blade toward the extended position,
- wherein:
- the movable blade is repeatedly movable between the positions, and
- the bit is configured such that:
- the cutters of the movable blade engage a bottom of the wellbore and the cutters of the fixed blade are disengaged from the bottom of the wellbore while the movable blade is in the extended position, and
- the cutters of both the fixed and movable blades engage the bottom of the wellbore while the movable blade is in the retracted position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.