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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2018
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Steven Park, Edmonton, CA;

Bipinkumar Singh, Vadodara, IN;

Christopher Paul Crampton, Alva, GB;

Daniel Soares Goncalves, Houston, TX (US);

Philip Leung, Edmonton, CA;

Brad McClurg, Porter, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 11/00 (2006.01); B02C 18/08 (2006.01); E21B 37/02 (2006.01); E21B 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 37/02 (2013.01); B02C 18/08 (2013.01); E21B 11/00 (2013.01); E21B 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A rotating cutter apparatus including a housing having a housing interior surface defining a housing bore, a shaft extending through the housing bore such that an annular space is provided between the housing interior surface and the shaft, and at least one cutter carried on the shaft. The shaft is rotatable relative to the housing about a shaft axis. The at least one cutter extends radially toward the housing interior surface and is rotatable relative to the housing about the shaft axis. A method for reducing a size of solid objects contained in a fluid, including providing a rotating cutter apparatus, introducing the fluid containing the solid objects into the rotating cutter apparatus, and rotating a shaft and at least one cutter in order to reduce the size of the solid objects while passing the fluid through the rotating cutter apparatus.


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