Abstract:
A box tool joint member of generally tubular configuration is adapted for securement by welding to one end of a steel tube to form a drill pipe. The box tool joint member comprises a body having a cylindrical outer periphery, an internally threaded socket at one end of the body, and a weld neck of smaller outer diameter than the body adjacent to the other end of the body. A tapered transition piece connecting the neck with the adjacent end of the body provides an elevator shoulder. A correlative pin tool joint member is welded to the opposite end of the tube to complete the drill pipe.The box tool joint member has an annular band of hard facing over the outer periphery of the transition piece and extending down over the adjacent part of the weld neck and up around the adjacent part of the body. The hard facing is corrosion resistant and has a smooth finished surface. Underneath the hard facing and extending beyond both ends of the hard facing is an annular butter layer of non-hardenable steel. The tool joint member is hardened and tempered after the butter layer is welded into a body groove and before the hard facing is welded on .The butter layer is grooved before the hard facing is welded on.
Abstract:
A high energy electron or laser beam is preferably used to assemble a drill bit. Bit segments are integrally adjoined together to form the drill bit assembly. Abutting confronting faces of the adjoining bit segments are aligned parallel to the drill bit axis and are fused together. The parallel alignment significantly simplifies the beam fusion process. The gage of the gage cutting elements of the bit segments is adjusted independently of the process involving assembly of the bit segments. Metal in a leg portion of the bit segments is fused in a zone of predetermined configuration to adjust the gage of the gage cutting elements. The zone of fused metal applies thermal contraction to the leg portion or permanently sets or relieves induced strain forces in the leg portion to permanently deflect the leg portion to a desired position at which the proper gage is obtained.
Abstract:
A hardfacing composition (32) that includes a plurality of hard particles (54) wherein the hard particles (54) such as tungsten carbide include a mode particle size distribution, one particle size distribution smaller than the mode particle size distribution, and an other particle size distribution larger than the mode particle size distribution. There is an absence of any substantial fluctuations in the particle size distribution between the mode particle size distribution and the one particle size distribution. There is an absence of any substantial fluctuations in the particle size distribution between the mode particle size distribution and the other particle size distribution.
Abstract:
A hardfacing composition (32) that includes a plurality of hard particles (54) wherein the hard particles (54) such as tungsten carbide include a mode particle size distribution, one particle size distribution smaller than the mode particle size distribution, and an other particle size distribution larger than the mode particle size distribution. There is an absence of any substantial fluctuations in the particle size distribution between the mode particle size distribution and the one particle size distribution. There is an absence of any substantial fluctuations in the particle size distribution between the mode particle size distribution and the other particle size distribution.
Abstract:
A cone blank (120) for a rotary cone rock bit is forged, rough machined, carburized and heat-treated, followed by the formation of insert holes (146) therein. Inserts (142) are then pressed into the insert holes. The finished cone is subsequently sprayed with hardfacing cladding material (154) in powdered form. The powder is thereafter densified and fused with a laser source to give a hard, erosion-resistant clad layer (155) on the outer surface, including in the immediate vicinity of the inserts (142).