Brian Andrew Baker
Engineering in Spring, TX

6601661, Aug 5, 2003

Sep 17, 2001

09/953834

Brian Andrew Baker - Spring TX
Brian Andrew Wiesner - Edmond OK
Rudolf Carl Otto Pessier - The Woodlands TX

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 1016

175341, 175336, 175374, 175378

A three cone roller bit with rolling cone cutters that are provided with both primary and secondary cutting elements. The primary cutting elements extend outwardly from lands on the outer surface of the cutter body. The secondary cutting elements are disposed within grooves on the cutter body so as to either protrude with its cutting surface from the bottom of the groove or be flush or slightly recessed within it. During normal operation, the primary cutter elements of the rolling cone cutters engage the borehole formation. The secondary cutters do not engage the formation. After substantial wear has occurred to the primary cutter elements, and wear begins to occur to the body of the cone cutters, the secondary cutter elements serve as a secondary cutting structure that engages and cuts into the formation.

6443246, Sep 3, 2002

Nov 2, 2000

09/704847

Rudolf Carl Otto Pessier - The Woodlands TX
Brian Christopher Wiesner - Edmond OK
George Edward Dolezal - Friendswood TX
Matthew Ray Isbell - Houston TX
James Lawrence Jacobsen - Shreveport LA
Brian Andrew Baker - Spring TX

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 1016

175378, 175331

An earth-boring bit for attachment to a drill string has rotatable cones with rows of cutting elements. The cutting elements are arranged in generally circumferential rows on each of the cones and interference fit into apertures in the shell surface. The rows include a heel row of cutting elements on the heel surface of each of the cones, and an adjacent row of adjacent row cutting elements next to the heel row cutting elements. Each heel row cutting element has at least one counterpart adjacent row cutting element that is spaced no farther from it than any other adjacent row cutting element, defining a proximal pair. Each of the cutting elements in each of the proximal pairs has a grip ratio, which is the barrel length divided by the diameter. Some of the proximal pairs having cutting elements with higher grip ratios than other cutting elements. None of the proximal pairs has both cutting elements with higher grip ratios.

6354387, Mar 12, 2002

Feb 1, 2000

09/496012

Thomas M. Harris - Conroe TX
Brian C. Wiesner - The Woodlands TX
Sean K. Berzas - The Woodlands TX
Brian A. Baker - Spring TX

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 1018

175340, 175424

A tri-cone earth-boring bit has nozzles oriented for improved cone cleaning, bottom cleaning and cuttings evacuation. Each of the nozzles is oriented to discharge across a trailing side of a cone at a point considerably inboard of the borehole wall. Each nozzle has an outlet located radially outward from the bit axis a distance that is at least equal to a distance from a top dead center of the heel row of each of the cones to the bit axis. Also, each of the nozzles is oriented to discharge drilling fluid along a line that contacts the borehole bottom at a distance that is no greater than a distance from a bottom dead center of an outermost of the inner rows of the cone to the bit axis. A portion of the drilling fluid discharged from each nozzle will pass by more than one of the rows of the cones.

7600590, Oct 13, 2009

Aug 15, 2005

11/204063

Floyd C. Felderhoff - Montgomery TX, US
Brian A. Baker - Shenandoah TX, US
Rudolf C. Pessier - The Woodlands TX, US
Jimmy W. Eason - The Woodlands TX, US

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 10/16

175432, 175431

An earth boring bit has an outer row of inserts located within extra deep holes. Each of the holes has a cylindrical sidewall with a depth greater than the length of the barrel of the insert mounted within. The difference in depth is at least equal to a distorted entry zone in the hole. A portion of the sidewall that includes the entry zone surrounds the cutting end, reducing the projection of the cutting end from the land.

7066288, Jun 27, 2006

Nov 1, 2002

10/286299

Greg Van Klompenburg - The Woodlands TX, US
Brian A. Baker - Spring TX, US
Matthew R. Isbell - Houston TX, US

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 10/16

175431, 175378, 175413, 175432

Asymmetrical compacts are utilized in certain places on roller cones of an earth boring bit to increase the number of compacts in certain rows. The compacts that are pressed into holes in rows on the cones. The compacts are of tungsten carbide and have a cutting end axis and a barrel axis. The barrel axis intersects the cutting end axis at an obtuse angle. In the heel row, the barrel axis of at least some of the compacts is rotated to have less inclination than the cutting end axis. In an adjacent row to the heel row, each of the compacts has a barrel axis that is rotated to have more inclination than its cutting end axis and more inclination than the barrel axes of the heel row.

7096981, Aug 29, 2006

Nov 1, 2002

10/286480

Greg Van Klompenburg - The Woodlands TX, US
Brian A. Baker - Spring TX, US
Matthew R. Isbell - Houston TX, US

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 10/16

175378, 175431, 175432, 175413

Compacts are oriented in certain places on roller cones of an earth boring bit to increase the number of compacts in certain rows. The compacts that are pressed into holes in rows on the cones. The compacts are of tungsten carbide and have a cutting end axis and a barrel axis. The barrel axis intersects the cutting end axis at an obtuse angle. In one of the cones, the barrel axis of at least some of the compacts is rotated to have less inclination than the barrel axis of the compact nearest to it. The nearest compact may be in the same row or an adjacent row. Also, at least some of the compacts may be asymmetrical, with a cutting end axis that diverges from a barrel axis.

5979575, Nov 9, 1999

Jun 25, 1998

9/104821

James L. Overstreet - Webster TX
Robert E. Grimes - Houston TX
Brian A. Baker - Spring TX
Matthew J. Meiners - Spring TX

Baker Hughes Incorporated - Houston TX

E21B 1016

175374

An earth-boring bit has a rotating cutter of a hybrid design. The bit has a bit body and a bearing shaft which is cantilevered downwardly and inwardly from the bit body. The cutter is mounted for rotation on the bearing shaft and has a plurality of cutting elements arranged in circumferential rows on the cutter. These rows include inner rows and a heel row. The cutting elements in the inner row are formed of a hard metal such as tungsten carbide and are pressed interferingly into apertures in the cutter. The heel row is made up of steel teeth formed on the cutter.