Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reamer
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Application No.: US15328051Application Date: 2015-07-21
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Publication No.: US10584538B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Jonathan Robert Hird , Ashley Bernard Johnson , Gokturk Tunc
- Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Priority: GB1412934.0 20140721
- International Application: PCT/US2015/041224 WO 20150721
- International Announcement: WO2016/014449 WO 20160128
- Main IPC: E21B10/32
- IPC: E21B10/32 ; E21B10/43 ; E21B10/46 ; E21B10/567

Abstract:
A reamer for enlarging an underground borehole comprises a plurality of cutter assemblies distributed azimuthally around a longitudinal axis of the tool, and each cutter assembly comprises a supporting structure and a plurality of hard faced cutters (211-216) embedded therein with a hard face of each cutter exposed and facing in a direction of rotation of the tool. Each cutter assembly includes at least one outward-facing gauge surface (220), at a radial distance from the tool axis which aligns the gauge surface with the radially outer extremity (218) of at least one cutter. This gauge surface (220) extends (221) in the direction of rotation circumferentially ahead of the extremity of the exposed face of the aligned at least one cutter. It may meet the side of the assembly at a curved (222) or bevelled (342) edge and may also extend back from the exposed face of the cutter. These gauge surfaces aligned with the extremity of the cutter prevent the reamer from pivoting around the extremity of a cutter which has snagged on the borehole wall and thus stabilize the rotation within the borehole.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170211334A1 REAMER Public/Granted day:2017-07-27
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