Downhole milling tool and cutter therefor
CA 2010796 C · Owner: Neff, Michael Claude · Inventors: Neff, Michael Claude
Overview
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A cutter for a downhole milling or cutting tool and a tool incorporating the blade has a longitudinal axis (97) about which the tool is rotatable. The tool may have a plurality of circumferentially disposed blades which are either fixed or radially movable to perform a cutting operation. Each of the cutters has a blade (100) having a cutting surface (17) which is formed by a plurality of cutting elements (20). Each of the cutting elements has a plurality of protruding cutting edges (3) each of which are longitudinally spaced from one another and interspaced from one another by a recess portion (1) so that in use swarf moves upwardly from one of the cutting edges along the recess portion and …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 23, 1990 and granted April 14, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 23, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 23, 2012.
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