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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2014
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Element Six (Production) (Pty) (Ltd)., Gauten, ZA;
Element Six Limited, County Clare, IE;
Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Houston, TX (US);
Nicholas J. Lyons, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Matthew S. Hale, Houston, TX (US);
Konstantin E. Morozov, The Woodlands, TX (US);
John H. Liversage, Springs, ZA;
Danny E. Scott, Montgomery, TX (US);
L. Allen Sinor, Conroe, TX (US);
Baker Hughes, Houston, TX (US);
Element Six (Production) (PTY) (LTD)., Gauten, ZA;
Element Six Limited, County Clare, IE;
Abstract
A cutting element for use in a drilling bit and/or a milling bit having a cutter body made of a substrate having an upper surface, and a superabrasive layer overlying the upper surface of the substrate. The cutting element further includes a sleeve extending around a portion of a side surface of the superabrasive layer and a side surface of the substrate, wherein the sleeve exerts a radially compressive force on the superabrasive layer.