Camco International, Inc.

Patsy N Kepka

Jeffery Edward Daly

A method of manufacturing a rolling cutter drill bit of the kind where each cutter is rotatably mounted on a bearing spindle on the bit body and is retained on the spindle by a threaded retention ring in screw-threaded engagement with the cutter. The retention ring is provided with an aperture to expose a portion of the screw-thread on the cutter and an implement is passed along a registering passage in the spindle and through the aperture in the retaining ring to deform or otherwise alter the exposed screw-thread in a manner to prevent subsequent relative rotation between the screw-threads, thereby locking the retention ring to the cutter. Instead of deforming the screw-thread it may be formed with a recess which is engaged by a pinning element secured in the aperture in the retaining ring.

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Pasadena, TX, United States of America

Patsy N Kepka