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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1980
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lloyd L Garner, San Clemente, CA (US);
Assignee:
Smith International, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ; E21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
175340 ; 175 65 ; 175422 ;
Abstract
This invention teaches the use of one or more cavitation inducing nozzles in combination with conventional nozzles for rock bits. The cavitation nozzles enhance the drilling rate by rapidly removing cuttings from the hole bottom. Cavitation from a cavitating nozzle positioned on one side of the bit reduces the pressure thereby inducing drilling mud at higher pressure passing through an opposing non-cavitative nozzle to move across the rock-tooth interface. The resultant cross-flow rapidly removes the cuttings from the hole bottom.