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Drilling Bits and Downhole Tools 791<br />

Crowfoot<br />

Opening<br />

Collector<br />

’(Seconda<br />

-<br />

3<br />

Feeder<br />

(Primal’Y)<br />

Iry’<br />

FLUID COURSES<br />

Diamond Set Pad<br />

SLOT<br />

W<br />

Control Diameters<br />

(TFA Collector)<br />

PR<strong>OF</strong>ILE<br />

- API Pin Connection<br />

Figure 4-1 44. Diamond drill bit nomenclature [49]. (Courtesy Hughes<br />

Christensen.)<br />

f lowrate should be adjusted to achieve the bit hydraulic horsepower required.<br />

The minimum pump discharge required to maintain annular velocity and bit<br />

cooling is shown in Figure 4-146.<br />

Hydraulic Pumpoff. The bit pressure drop acts over the bit face area between<br />

the cutting face of the bit and the formation and tends to lift the bit off the

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