WO2012103342A2 - Fabricated mill body with blade pockets for insert placement and alignment - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23P—METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS
- B23P15/00—Making specific metal objects by operations not covered by a single other subclass or a group in this subclass
- B23P15/28—Making specific metal objects by operations not covered by a single other subclass or a group in this subclass cutting tools
- B23P15/34—Making specific metal objects by operations not covered by a single other subclass or a group in this subclass cutting tools milling cutters
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B10/00—Drill bits
- E21B10/46—Drill bits characterised by wear resisting parts, e.g. diamond inserts
- E21B10/54—Drill bits characterised by wear resisting parts, e.g. diamond inserts the bit being of the rotary drag type, e.g. fork-type bits
- E21B10/55—Drill bits characterised by wear resisting parts, e.g. diamond inserts the bit being of the rotary drag type, e.g. fork-type bits with preformed cutting elements
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- the field of the invention is mills for subterranean use and more particularly mills that have a fabricated body with blade pockets for placement and alignment of inserts.
- Mills that are used for making casing exits typically have a cast body with a series of blades. Each blade has an array of polycrystalline diamond inserts commonly referred to as PDC inserts.
- the inserts are cylindrically shaped and disposed on each blade in a specific arrangement that uses a nesting feature where inserts in one row are offset from inserts in the row that is above. Because of this arrangement the load during milling is better distributed to prevent body damage and increase mill longevity. In a given row of inserts there is also an optimum center to center spacing of the inserts.
- Cast bodies such as those described in USP 7,117,960 have been used. These bodies require the blades to be integrated or machined with the bit body. Other designs had welded blades to the bodies using welding techniques that employ high temperatures and can cause stresses in the body at the attachment locations. Some designs use fully cast bodies with pockets in the casting for inserts as illustrated in USP 7,178,609. The illustrated design is a dual function mill for making a casing exit and continuing to drill a lateral wellbore. The cast bodies involved a single use mold which made the bits extremely expensive.
- Casing exit mills typically have blades that are welded to a machined body using welding techniques that employ high temperatures and can cause stresses in the body at the attachment locations. Additionally for initial assembly there was a logistics problem of stocking separate bit bodies, blades and inserts. Typically the blades were manufactured with flat faces that created placement variability in the insert positioning.
- the present invention overcomes the problems with cast bodies described above and offers a machined body with integral blades that have pockets at a desired spacing and further offers the option of a guide for the inserts in the pockets should they have a cutting end that needs positioning in a specific orientation to function properly.
- Some of the pockets feature a near parallel to the rotational axis orientation to facilitate machining those pockets.
- a mill body is machined integrally with blades that have pockets to receive PDC inserts or tungsten carbide.
- the insert pockets can have an orientation feature to ensure that inserts that require specific rotational orientation are put into the pockets at the right orientation for efficient milling.
- the orientation of some of the pockets closest to the bottom and center of the bit have their axis reoriented to a near parallel orientation to the bit center axis to allow the bit body and blade fabrication equipment access to drill the insert pocket.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the fabricated mill showing the insert placement
- FIG. 2 is a close up view of the blade area of the mill in FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the mill of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 4 is a detailed view of a pocket showing the orientation feature of an insert when inserted into the pocket for attachment.
- the mill 10 has a threaded end connection 12 leading to an elongated body 14 that has a series of blades 16 at a lower end 18.
- Inserts 20 are illustrated as cylindrical shapes but can have nonsymmetrical shapes that require a preferred orientation. This concept is illustrated in FIG. 4 where an insert 20 has a key 24 that goes into a shaped pocket 22 in the blade 16 only one way so that the cutting face 26 is oriented in a proper direction with respect to a central axis of the insert 20 for optimal cutting efficiency.
- the assembly shown in FIG. 1 is fabricated from an initial shape so that the body 14, along with the end threads 12 and the blades 16 and the array of pockets 22 can be manufactured as an integral structure.
- the advantages offered by this fabrication technique is that the dressing of the blades before initial use is uniform and predictable as the array of pockets 22 are placed on each blade 16 and with respect to adjacent inserts 20 in a precise layout because the pockets that are also part of the fabrication technique are precision machined for layout and spacing as well as depth of the pockets 22.
- the inserts 20 can then be brazed to the blade 16 when in the corresponding pocket
- FIGS. 2 and 3 shows inserts 25 and 26 that have an axis rotated approximately 90 degrees from adjacent inserts 20. This is done so that the pockets 22 for the inserts 25 and 26 can be machined with the equipment that fabricates the body 14 and the blades 16. With insert locations closest to the center and bottom of the body 14 there can be an issue of equipment access to drill the pocket 22 and interference with adjacent pockets so this problem is avoided by reorienting the axis of the pocket and the subsequent insert that is brazed into it so that the pocket can be produced.
- the unitary structure of the body with the blades takes away a logistical concern of stocking different size blades to go with unique bodies and removes the added body stress from welding the blades to the body in a remote location from the manufacturing facility. While using computer controlled machining techniques to produce the mill with integral blades and pockets is initially more costly, the higher performance that can be obtained at the subterranean location can more than compensate for the initial cost difference over current cast body techniques.
- the pockets can either be initially machined as the blades are produced or if desired can be omitted to reduce cost of fabrication or to allow alternative insert configurations to be used on any given blade.
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| SG2013057146A SG192169A1 (en) | 2011-01-27 | 2012-01-26 | Fabricated mill body with blade pockets for insert placement and alignment |
| CA2823260A CA2823260A1 (en) | 2011-01-27 | 2012-01-26 | Fabricated mill body with blade pockets for insert placement and alignment |
| GB1309750.6A GB2500512A (en) | 2011-01-27 | 2012-01-26 | Fabricated mill body with blade pockets for insert placement and alignment |
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| US13/014,797 US20120192680A1 (en) | 2011-01-27 | 2011-01-27 | Fabricated Mill Body with Blade Pockets for Insert Placement and Alignment |
| US13/014,797 | 2011-01-27 |
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| WO2012103342A2 true WO2012103342A2 (en) | 2012-08-02 |
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| US (1) | US20120192680A1 (en) |
| CA (1) | CA2823260A1 (en) |
| GB (1) | GB2500512A (en) |
| SG (1) | SG192169A1 (en) |
| WO (1) | WO2012103342A2 (en) |
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