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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1987
Kenneth W Jones, Kingwood, TX (US);
Smith International, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A drag type drilling bit having a plurality of radially disposed raised lands on the bit face is disclosed. A multiplicity of polycrystalline diamond compacts are strategically disposed on the raised lands. At least a pair of lands are joined at the outside periphery of the bit thereby closing the valley formed between the lands, thus forming a plenum for drilling fluid that exits the bit interior through ports or nozzles communicating therewith. Highly turbulent fluid confined in the plenum continually scrubs and scavenges the hole bottom while simultaneously and uniformly cooling and cleaning the PDC cutters during operation of the bit in a borehole.