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The company was established in December 1908 [1] as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes Sr. patented a roller cutter bit that dramatically improved the rotary drilling process for oil drilling rigs.
This bit’s ancestor, the two-cone rotary rock drill bit, was invented by Howard Robard Hughes, Sr., an Iowa boy who drifted to southeast Texas in the wake of the Spindletop discovery...
Howard Robard Hughes Sr. (September 9, 1869 – January 14, 1924) was an American businessman and inventor who founded the Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp–Hughes" two-cone rotary drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom .
The Hughes two-cone bit's revolutionary rolling action crushed hard-rock formations with twin cone-shaped, hardened steel bits, each with 166 cutting edges, revolving on bronze bearings shaped to provide a large surface with reduced friction.
They created a bit “designed to enable rotary drilling in harder, deeper formations than was possible with earlier fishtail bits,” according to a Hughes historian. Secret tests took place on a drilling rig at Goose Creek, south of Houston.
Howard Hughes filed his drill bit invention with the U.S. Patent Office in 1908 and went on to build one of the legendary fortunes of the twentieth century. You can view some of the...
Explore the history of Howard Hughes Sr., inventor of the two-cone roller bit, in Part 1 of this two-part series highlighting the Hughes family legacy in the oil and gas industry.
In this episode of Drilling Deeper we look at the stories and myths behind one of the drill bits in the Oil Museum of Canada's collection. We look at how the stories behind an object shape our...
HUGHES TWO-CONE DRILL BIT. 1909. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS, HOWARD HUGHES, SR. AND WALTER SHARP INTRODUCED A NOVEL DRILL BIT IN 1909 FOR OIL DRILLERS, SUITED TO DEEP BORING THROUGH MEDIUM AND HARD ROCK. UNTIL THEN, THE RUDIMENTARY “FISHTAIL” BIT LIMITED DRILLERS TO RESERVOIRS NEAR THE SURFACE.
Howard Hughes Sr. and Walter Sharp secretly test the first roller cone bit at Goose Creek. 1909 Hughes patents the bit, which revolutionizes drilling by penetrating deeper, harder rock.