Two cone bit with extended diamond cutters

A three leg segment hybrid rock bit, each leg segment being about 120.degree., said bit is of the type wherein hydraulic mud is directed to a chamber formed in said bit and out through openings downstream of said chamber, at least one 120.degree. leg segment of said bit is converted to a drag bit segment with insert cutting elements inserted in the face formed by said drag bit segment, the remaining 120.degree. leg segments supporting conventional roller cone cutters, the hybrid bit further comprising:

• a multiplicity of hydraulic passages formed in said face of said drag bit leg segment adjacent said insert cutting elements, at least one of said hydraulic passages being positioned adjacent to and in front of at least a pair of said insert cutting elements in said 120.degree. drag bit leg segment, said hydraulic passages communicating with said chamber formed in said hybrid bit, and
• a passage for crossflow of said hydraulic mud exiting said hydraulic passages adjacent said insert cutting elements in said 120.degree. drag bit segment and formed between said adjacent roller cone cutters, said crossflow passage between the roller cutters having no hydraulic passage communicating with said chamber, thereby sweeping detritus material from the bottom of a borehole formed by said hybrid rock bit to the exterior of the bit and up the borehole.