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US 2023/0167691 A1Published application
Radial cutting assembly for drilling tool
AssigneeAllen Kent Rives
InventorAllen Kent RIVES
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Abstract
This cutting assembly provides a radially grooved body insert upon which cutter arms with complementary radial grooves may translate to extend the cutter arms in a radial fashion from a body of a downhole drilling assembly. This improved cutting assembly design can be incorporated into an underreamer, hole opener, drill bit, or section mill.
Claims14
A cutting assembly of a downhole drilling assembly comprising:
- at least one body insert installed within a main body, the body insert having at least one radial projection on at least one side;
- an extendable cutter arm having at least one radial groove slidably engaged with each radial projection of the body insert;
- a hydraulically engaged actuator capable of urging the cutter arms along the radial projections of the body insert;
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- the extendable cutter arm translates radially along the at least one radial groove between an extended and retracted position.
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A downhole drilling assembly comprising:
- a tubular body with a fluid flow path, the tubular body comprising a main body moving telescopically within an outer body around the fluid flow path;
- a plurality of body inserts displaced within the main body, the body inserts having circumferentially spaced radial grooves;
- a plurality of moveable cutter arms with radial grooves complementary to and slidably engaged with the grooves of the body insert and at least one stop block;
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- a hydraulically engaged actuator cooperatively engaged with the cutter arms, wherein the actuator is capable of extending the cutter arms radially from the outer body until the cutter arm is seated against the at least one stop block to allow the cutter arm to rotate about a pivot point.
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A method of enlarging a borehole comprising:
- installing a downhole drilling assembly with a cutting assembly, the cutting assembly comprising a plurality of removable body inserts with a plurality of radial projections slidably engaged with at least two cutter arms, each cutter arm having a plurality of radial grooves;
- disposing the downhole drilling assembly at a desired location within a borehole;
- pressurizing a bore within the downhole drilling assembly to extend the cutter arms from the downhole drilling assembly along a radial translation path;
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- rotating the downhole drilling assembly with the cutter arms in an extended position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.