CA1282448C - Friction bearing for deep well drilling tools - Google Patents

Friction bearing for deep well drilling tools

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CA1282448C
CA1282448C CA000562294A CA562294A CA1282448C CA 1282448 C CA1282448 C CA 1282448C CA 000562294 A CA000562294 A CA 000562294A CA 562294 A CA562294 A CA 562294A CA 1282448 C CA1282448 C CA 1282448C
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16CSHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C17/00Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement
    • F16C17/04Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement for axial load only
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21BEARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B4/00Drives for drilling, used in the borehole
    • E21B4/003Bearing, sealing, lubricating details
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16CSHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/02Parts of sliding-contact bearings
    • F16C33/04Brasses; Bushes; Linings
    • F16C33/06Sliding surface mainly made of metal
    • F16C33/10Construction relative to lubrication
    • F16C33/1025Construction relative to lubrication with liquid, e.g. oil, as lubricant
    • F16C33/106Details of distribution or circulation inside the bearings, e.g. details of the bearing surfaces to affect flow or pressure of the liquid
    • F16C33/108Details of distribution or circulation inside the bearings, e.g. details of the bearing surfaces to affect flow or pressure of the liquid with a plurality of elements forming the bearing surfaces, e.g. bearing pads
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16CSHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/02Parts of sliding-contact bearings
    • F16C33/04Brasses; Bushes; Linings
    • F16C33/24Brasses; Bushes; Linings with different areas of the sliding surface consisting of different materials
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16CSHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/02Parts of sliding-contact bearings
    • F16C33/04Brasses; Bushes; Linings
    • F16C33/26Brasses; Bushes; Linings made from wire coils; made from a number of discs, rings, rods, or other members
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16CSHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C2206/00Materials with ceramics, cermets, hard carbon or similar non-metallic hard materials as main constituents
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16CSHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C2352/00Apparatus for drilling

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Friction bearing for deep well drilling tools, especially drill bit direct drives, with a trace ring and a bearing ring where the bearing ring has bearing segments whose friction bodies are supported on the sliding face of trace ring and the trace ring has a ring-shaped bearing body, e.g., made of steel and prefabricated molded bodies with a bearing material that is hard and wear resistant provided at least on the top side of the bearing body, characterized by the fact that the sliding face of the trace ring is formed by a number of molded bodies countersunk so they are flush with the surface of the bearing body and they are arranged side by side in a mosaic pattern, with their surfaces together defining a ring path that has an essentially closed surface.

Description

~X~324a~8 EASD : 0 3 1 FRICTION BEARING FOR
DEEP WELL DRILLING TOOLS

This invention concerns a friction bearing for deep well drilling tools, especially drill bit direct drives.
In a known friction bearing for deep well drilling tools, a trace ring is provided (US Defensive Publication T102 901) having a ring-shaped bearing body of steel and prefabricated cylindrical bodies mounted in axial boreholes of the bearing body and having a bearlng layer of polycrystalline diamond and a support layer of a sintered material. The molded bodies are placed in a ring-shaped arrangement in the trace ring with their diamond layer that is provided with a conical taper 2S projecting above the surface of the supporting body and forming a sliding plane composed of adjacent ring-shaped sliding surfaces. The bearing ring in turn has cylindrical molded bodies provided with a polycrystalline diamond layer at the surface and set in a ring as bearing segments that are supported on the sliding surface of the trace ring.

Such a design is associated with load conditions that change constantly because the surfaces that are in mutual engagement change constantly and greatly during one complete revolution. A friction bearing with such a 3291f4~3 des~n ~f the tr~e ring $S therefore limited in its load bea~ing capacity and is subject to a great deal of wear.

In another known friction bearing ~German Patent No.
3,513,124), the trace ring has a cohesive ring-shaped slide way in the form of a seat of a sintered metal powder ceramic material or polycrystalline diamond material.
Such a trace ring can withstand high loads and operates under uniform load conditions but is expensive to manufacture because the seat cannot be prefabricated but instead can only be manufactured by sintering it as a whole onto the support body in a separate operation.

This invention is based on the ~oal of creating a fxiction bearing that can withstand high loads, is subject to little wear and can be manufactured under fa~orable conditions.

With the ~riction bearing according to this i~vention, the surfaces of the molded bodies form an essentially closed ring channel with the result that the contact surface between the friction bodies of the bearing ring and the ring channel of the trace ring do not undergo any mentionable changes during one revolution of the bearing. Accordingly, the friction ~earing can withstand high loads and also shows little wear due to the essentially uniform load conditions. Furthermore, the mosaic-like arrangement makes it ~ossible to use molded bodies consisti~g of blanks of partially worn cutting elements of rotary drill bits. ~his is especially the case in one version where the surfaces of the molded bodies are bordered by arc sections, because such molded bodies can be cut from circular cutting elements which are preferred in rotary drill bits and are usually worn on one side.

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Ad~itional details and advantages derive from the following description and the figures showing schematic diagrams of two practical examples of the object of this invention. The figures show the following:

Figure 1 shows a top view of one-half of the trace ring according to this invention.

Figure 2 shows a cross-sectional diagram of Figure 1.

Figure 3 shows a top view like Figure 1 of a trace ring of a modified design.

Figure 4 shows a cross-sectional diagram to Figure 3.
The friction bearing for deep well drilling tools, especially drill bit direct drives, includes a bearing ring 1 which is shown with dash-dot lines in the diagram in Figure 4 and has bearing segments 2 plus a trace ring 3 ZO ~Figures 1 and 2) or 4 (Figures 3 and 4).

- Trace ring 3 which is illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 includes a ring-shaped bearing body 5 that consists of a suitable matrix, e.g., a sintered metal, The ring-shaped sliding surface 6 of trace ring 3 is formed by a number of sintered molded bodies 7, 8 in the example according to Figure 2 that are countersunk s~ they are flush with the surface 9 of bearing body 5 and arranged side by side in a mosaic pattern so with their surfaces together they define a ring channel with an essentially closed surface.

Surfaces of molded bodies 7, 8 of trace ring 3 are bordered with a straight line and are arranged in several radial ring groups 10, 11, 12 and 13 with a close mutual spacing, Molded bodies 7 have a cubic shape whereas molded bodies 8 have a rod prism shape. The cubic molded ~X82~L8 bodies 7 offer a surface that is always the same as wear ~dvances, whereas the surface becomes smaller with proqressive wear in the case of molded ~odies 8.

With regard t~ the diagrams in Figures 1 and 2, it should be pointed out that only a few molded bodies 7 and 8 are shown in ring groups lO, 11 and 12. However, it is self-evident that ring groups 10, ll and 12, like ring group 13, form a closed ring ~f molded bodies 7 and 8.
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In the version according to Figures 3 and 4, the bearing body 14 which is likewise ring shaped is made of steel. This is provided with a ring groove 15 at its surface 9 with molded bodies 16, 17 arranged in it.
Molded b~dies 16~ 17 ha~e a layer lB or l9 of polycrystalline diamond material at their surface and they include a supporting part 20, 21 whieh is made of a sintered material, e.g., tungsten carbide. These molded bodies 16, 17 have their surfaces flush with surface 9 of bearing body 14 and are secured by soldering in ring groove 15.

The surfaces of molded bodies 16, 17 are bordered by arc segment lines and abut seamlessly. Here again, molded bodies 16, 17 abut with radially adjacent ring groups 22, 23 where the molded bodies 16 or 17 provided with one ring group 22 or 23 have the same radial inner and outer bordering lines supplementing each other so each forms a common arc 24, 25 or 26.
The bordering lines of molded bodies 16, 17 of each ring group 22 and 23 as seen in the circumferential direction are formed by identical arc segment lines with a small radius of curvature 50 the approximately sickle-shaped molded bodies 16 and 17 are alternately intermeshedrelatively far into each other in the circumferential ''-`' lX~2~8 direction. T~is desig~ cre~es an especially stable load bearing assembly with a sliding face 27 which defines a completely closed ring channel.

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Claims (8)

1. Friction bearing for deep well drilling tools, especially drill bit direct drives, with a trace ring and a bearing ring where the bearing ring has bearing segments whose friction bodies are supported on the sliding face of trace ring and the trace ring has a ring-shaped bearing body, e.g., made of steel and prefabricated molded bodies with a bearing material that is hard and wear resistant provided at least on the top side of the bearing body, characterized by the fact that the sliding face of the trace ring is formed by a number of molded bodies countersunk so they are flush with the surface of the bearing body and they are arranged side by side in a mosaic pattern, with their surfaces together defining a ring path that has an essentially closed surface.
2. Friction bearing according to Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the surfaces of the molded bodies have a linear border and are arranged with a close mutual spacing in several radial ring groups.
3. Friction bearing according to Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the surfaces of the molded bodies are bordered by arc segment lines and abut seamlessly.
4. Friction bearing according to Claim 3, characterized by the fact that the molded bodies are joined together to form radially adjacent ring groups where the molded bodies provided for one ring group have mutually identical radially interior bordering lines and radially exterior bordering lines which supplement each other to form a common arc.
5. Friction bearing according to Claim 4, characterized by the fact that the bordering lines of the molded bodies of each ring group that form the border as seen in the circumferential direction are formed by equal arc segment lines with a small radius of curvature.
6. Friction bearing according to one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized by the fact that the molded bodies are made of a hard metal, ceramic and/or polycrystalline diamond material.
7. Friction bearing according to Claim 6, characterized by the fact that the molded bodies are made of a polycrystalline diamond material and are sintered into a matrix of sintered material forming a component of the trace ring.
8. Friction bearing according to Claim 6, characterized by the fact that the molded bodies have a layer of polycrystalline diamond material at their surface applied to a supporting part of the sintered material, and the molded bodies are soldered into a ring groove in the top side of the trace ring.
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