261 |
Well tubing handling apparatus |
US842143 |
1986-03-21 |
US4650235A |
1987-03-17 |
Albert S. Shaginian; Anatoly A. Pevnev; Alexei G. Asan-Dzhalalov; Alexandr P. Androsenko; Leonid N. Palkin; Elena I. Klimovich |
The apparatus includes a mast, an elevator and a tubing spider for suspending a string of well tubes or rods, a rack for storing well tubes or rods, a manipulator and a swivel head for screwing and unscrewing the string carried by the manipulator boom. To axially align the last tube or rod with the string the apparatus is provided with centering guides for centering the upper and the lower ends of the tube or rod and a gripping device for gripping the upper end of the string. The centering guide for centering the upper end of a well rod or tube forms part of a lifting frame, which in turn is a constituent of the elevator for suspending a string of well tubes or rods. The centering guide for centering the lower end of the rod or tube forms part of an automatic tong assembly for making up and breaking out joints of rods, which assembly is used with the claimed apparatus and also comprises the swivel head and the gripping device for gripping the upper end of the string of well tubes or rods. |
262 |
Dual-wall drill pipe |
US761365 |
1985-08-01 |
US4618172A |
1986-10-21 |
Floyd W. Becker |
The specification describes a dual-wall drill pipe section comprising an outer pipe member having a box end formed with an internal thread and a pin end formed with an external thread for engagement with the box end of another outer pipe member, the bore of one of the ends of the outer pipe member is formed with a shoulder and a circumferential, inwardly facing groove axially spaced from the shoulder, an inner pipe member concentrically disposed within the outer pipe member so as to define an annular passage between the inner and outer pipe members, spacer members connected to each end of the inner pipe member and disposed in the annular passage for maintaining concentricity between the inner and outer pipe members, the spacer members at one end of the inner pipe being formed with a shoulder for abutting engagement with the shoulder of the outer pipe member so as to axially locate and support the inner pipe member within the outer pipe member, and at least one spring member connected to the inner pipe member and having a portion engageable with the groove of the outer pipe member for resiliently and frictionally retaining the inner pipe member within the outer pipe member during drilling, storage and handling of an assembled pipe section. |
263 |
Interference warning device |
US603258 |
1984-04-23 |
US4613849A |
1986-09-23 |
Roger Smith, Jr.; Joseph R. Priest; Faustyn C. Langowski; Harry D. Hebard |
An interference warning device for an oil well drilling rig having a derrick, traveling equipment, a racker arm, and a block retractor. Fluid activated sensors provide electric signals when the traveling equipment is within a selected vertical distance from the racker arm, when the racker arm is within a selected horizontal distance from the vertical axis of the derrick, or when the block retractor has extended the traveling equipment to within a selected distance from the fully extended position. The operator is informed when any one of the sensors is activated, cautioned when any two of the sensors are activated, and warned when all three sensors are activated. The drawworks may be braked when all three sensors are activated. |
264 |
Pipe handling apparatus for oil drilling operations |
US712642 |
1985-03-18 |
US4610315A |
1986-09-09 |
Minoru Koga; Toshio Kizawa; Toshio Hirose |
This invention relates to a pipe handling apparatus for oil drilling operations, which is designed so as to handle simply without errors the pipes used for oil drilling operations, and which is provided with a pipe transfer unit for transferring a pipe mechanically between a pipe storage space and the oil well center, a pipe lift unit capable of lowering a pipe, which has been carried to the oil well center by the pipe transfer unit, thereinto and withdrawing a pipe from the oil well center, and a pipe transfer unit for transferring a pipe, which has been withdrawn from the oil well center by the pipe lift unit, to a pipe rack unit automatically so as to store the pipe therein. |
265 |
Well tubing handling apparatus |
US468485 |
1983-02-22 |
US4591007A |
1986-05-27 |
Albert S. Shaginian; Anatoly A. Pevnev; Alexei G. Asan-Dzhalalov; Alexandr P. Androsenko; Leonid N. Palkin; Elena I. Klimovich |
The apparatus includes a mast, an elevator and a tubing spider for suspending a string of well tubes or rods, a rack for storing well tubes or rods, a manipulator and a swivel head for screwing and unscrewing the string carried by the manipulator boom. To axially align the last tube or rod with the string the apparatus is provided with centering guides for centering the upper and the lower ends of the tube or rod and a gripping device for gripping the upper end of the string. The centering guide for centering the upper end of a well rod or tube forms part of a lifting frame, which in turn is a constituent of the elevator for suspending a string of well tubes or rods. The centering guide for centering the lower end of the rod or tube forms part of an automatic tong assembly for making up and breaking out joints of rods, which assembly is used with the claimed apparatus and also comprises the swivel head and the means for gripping the upper end of the string of well tubes or rods. |
266 |
Method and a machine for handling drill pipes |
US489463 |
1983-04-28 |
US4585079A |
1986-04-29 |
Marc Lemaire; Roland Le Roc'h |
A machine applies screwing and unscrewing torque between successive drill pipes with an essentially vertical axis extending through a tapered opening in a turntable for a well bore. The machine includes a mechanism for applying a high initial unthreading torque and a high final threading torque between successive drill pipes and a mechanism for rapid screwing and unscrewing of successive drill pipes. The machine also includes a clamping mechanism having a bolster and a plurality of shims. The shims have outer portions tapered to fit into the opening of the turntable and have inner portions with a shape corresponding to the shape of the drill pipes. Each shim is supported individually on the bolster by a device that moves the shim into engagement with a drill pipe to grip the same and with sufficient freedom to permit the shims to center the pipe between them automatically. The bolster is lowered to cause the shims to enter the opening in the turntable. |
267 |
Drill string element handling apparatus |
US425944 |
1982-09-28 |
US4501524A |
1985-02-26 |
Toyohiko Yoan; Norishige Muto |
An apparatus for the handling of drill string elements, such as rods or pipes in drill rigs. The apparatus comprises an elongated guide member, a drifter movably mounted on the guide member for reciprocable movement therealong, a plurality of drill string elements for making up a drill string, a ring member rotatably mounted on the guide member, and a magazine for storing the drill string elements. The magazine is fixedly secured to the ring member and has formed therein a plurality of support holes for the drill string elements. For exactly positioning each drill string element for connecting the same with the drill string, a plurality of stoppers are provided on the ring member. Each stopper is positioned diametrically opposite to the respective support holes relative to a rotary center of the ring member. |
268 |
Link tilting mechanism for well rigs |
US490679 |
1983-05-02 |
US4489794A |
1984-12-25 |
George I. Boyadjieff |
Well apparatus including elevator links connected to a hook or other unit suspended in a derrick and hanging therefrom at opposite sides of the well axis to support an elevator or the like, with power actuated means provided for swinging the lower ends of the links laterally outwardly relative to the upper ends of the links and essentially about those upper ends, to shift the suspended elevator to a side of the well axis. |
269 |
Mobile machine for subterranean installation of piping and the like |
US406552 |
1982-08-09 |
US4475604A |
1984-10-09 |
Philip E. Albertson; Arthur D. Deken |
A ground supported mobile machine appropriate for subterranean installation of piping and the like has a tractor vehicle carrying a trencher driven from the tractor power source, a power operated backfill blade operated from such source to facilitate transporting a tool and drill rod holder, and a vertical drilling attachment powered from the tractor power source; this drilling attachment including a vertical mast providing guide rails for the carriage of a rotary drill head that is reciprocated by a hydraulic actuator along such rails to (1) raise the vehicle to enable positioning stabilizing feet for a vertical drilling operation, (2) manipulate the drill rod and drill bit thereon in performing such a drilling operation, and (3) push piping into the drilled hole upon completion of such drilling operation. A drill table is associated with the vertical mast which carries hydraulically actuated slips to grippingly engage the drill rod to preclude undesired downward rod movement while permitting upward movement of the rod relative to such slips and pipe wrench tongs operable to break free a threaded joint between drill rod sections or a rod section and the drill bit. The drilling attachment further includes a pipe pusher having an upper piping clamp releasably attachable to the drill head carriage to move therewith in pushing piping into the drilled hole and a lower piping clamp releasably attachable to the drill table to guide and hold the piping during the pipe pushing operation. |
270 |
Self centering tongs and transfer arm for drilling apparatus |
US269279 |
1981-06-01 |
US4403666A |
1983-09-13 |
Clyde A. Willis |
A drill rig having a drill rig mast and a transfer arm is described. The clamps of the transfer arm are resiliently mounted to the transfer arm so as to provide limited axial movement of the clamps and thereby of a clamped down hole tubular. This resilient support for the down hole tubular serves to reduce damage to the threaded ends of the tubular during tubular handling operations. In addition, the clamps of the transfer arm are provided with resilient clamping surfaces which serve to engage the clamped tubular frictionally, without gouging or deeply scratching the surface thereof. A pair of automatic, self-centering, hydraulic tongs is provided for making up and breaking out threaded connections of tubulars having various diameters without manual adjustment of the tongs. |
271 |
Portable workover rig with extendable mast substructure, platform
mounted drawworks and adjustable wellhead anchor |
US49954 |
1979-06-18 |
US4290495A |
1981-09-22 |
Thomas L. Elliston |
A portable workover rig for handling a pipe string in a well casing includes a base platform and a collapsible mast which is movable from a reclining transport position to an erect elevated position of use. The mast is supported for free-standing operation by a carriage assembly including a cantilever support base mounted on the base platform for pivotal movement from the transport position to the position of use. The carriage assembly includes lift arms coupled in parallel relation intermediate the cantilever support base and the rig support platform for maintaining the cantilever support base in parallel alignment with the base platform. Hoisting and snubbing operations are performed by drawworks including a linear hydraulic actuator carried on the base platform, a traveling block supported for vertical movement along the mast by hoist and snub cables, and traveling sheaves carried by the actuator through a stroke pathway which is oriented transversely with respect to the mast. A vertically adjustable stack assembly is provided for accommodating the varying elevations of existing wellhead flange connections and for anchoring the rig platform to the wellhead casing. A powered drill sub assembly includes upstanding stab receptacles anchored to the top side of the traveling block and stab elements supported for vertical reciprocal movement between retracted and extended positions to permit displacement of the power sub relative to the traveling block during makeup and breakout operations. |
272 |
Subterranean well pipe guiding apparatus |
US42001 |
1979-05-24 |
US4274777A |
1981-06-23 |
Orville C. Scaggs |
An improved pipe guiding apparatus for vertically aligning pipe section joints in a derrick having a worktable and an elevator for vertically suspending at least one pipe section above the worktable. The apparatus is comprised of a rotary axle for horizontal attachment in the derrick, a frame attached to the rotary axle, a power cylinder for rotating the rotary axle, a pair of guide jaws pivotally attached to the forward end of the frame, a cylinder for moving the guide jaws between open and closed positions attached thereto and control for remotely operating the power cylinder for rotating the axle and the cylinder for moving the guide jaws so that that frame can be selectively moved to a position whereby the guide jaws are adjacent a vertically suspended pipe section and the guide jaws thereafter closed on the pipe section. |
273 |
Method for assembling vertical ducts by electron-welding |
US899681 |
1978-04-24 |
US4196334A |
1980-04-01 |
Paul Thome |
A method for assembling successive ducts end to end with a pipe-line constituted by the assembled ducts comprising: providing inner equipments for said ducts each comprising means for vacuum-tight connection with the inside of a duct and means protruding from the duct for vacuum tight connection with the pipe-line; placing said inner equipments in each successive duct in an equipping station, connecting said equipment to the inside of the duct at both ends to close an inner vacuum tight space inside the duct; connecting said space to pumping means and evacuating said inner space by said pumping means while transferring said duct and inner equipment from said equipping station to a welding station; positioning said duct in alignment and abutment end to end with the pipe-line in said welding station; locking the duct in fixed position with respect to the pipe-line, sealingly connecting said equipment with the pipe-line inside the pipe-line, and sealingly connecting a vacuum tight welding chamber of a rotative welding apparatus with the duct and the pipe-line outside their abutment ends; welding said abutting ends under vacuum using said welding apparatus; unlocking and unsealing the inner equipment from the duct and pipe-line, disconnecting the welding chamber, and letting the pipe-line fall down by one duct length; returning the inner equipment from said duct back to the equipping station; and repeating the operating sequence with each successive duct. |
274 |
Computer-controlled oil drilling rig having drawworks motor and brake
control arrangement |
US777724 |
1977-03-15 |
US4187546A |
1980-02-05 |
James P. Heffernan; Loren B. Sheldon; James R. Tomashek; Donald H. Ward |
An oil drilling rig includes a racker, a power tongs, a drawworks having a motor and a brake, and a general purpose programmable digital computer associated with each to sequentially initiate the operation thereof. Closed-loop control systems for the drawworks motor and drawworks brake are included to provide control signals to a motor drive and to a brake actuator. |
275 |
Electro-hydraulic interface for a power tongs |
US777672 |
1977-03-15 |
US4163401A |
1979-08-07 |
Loren B. Sheldon; Robert R. Kelly |
A manually operable valve in a power tongs assembly has, in combination therewith, an electro-hydraulic interface module. The interface module comprises an electrically responsive solenoid valve connected in hydraulically parallel path to the manually operated valve. The manually operated valve may be selectively disenabled and the electrically responsive valve simultaneously enabled to permit electrical control of the power tongs assembly. |
276 |
Apparatus for constantly rotating casing during installation |
US778914 |
1977-03-18 |
US4135586A |
1979-01-23 |
Martin D. Cherrington |
An inclined drill rig is disclosed with attached rotatable power tongs for use in practicing a process for the installation of underground casing. The underground casing is usually installed coaxially to a pilot string disposed about an invert arcuate underground path underneath an obstacle, such as a river. The underground casing is installed in discrete segments from a slanted drill rig unit including a car traveling on an inclined ramp. The traveling car on the inclined drill rig ramp crowds and rotates each pipe segment sequentially into the ground from a rotating table. When the last pipe segment attached is fully advanced into the ground, it is clamped at power tongs located at the front of the ramp. These power tongs apply torque to rotate all the casing in the ground without crowding the casing. |
277 |
Velocity control arrangement for a computer-controlled oil drilling rig |
US777677 |
1977-03-15 |
US4128888A |
1978-12-05 |
Loren B. Sheldon; James R. Tomashek; Donald H. Ward |
A computer - controlled oil drilling rig is characterized by apparatus for comparing signals representative of the actual velocity and direction of travel of a traveling block with signals representative of predetermined minimum and maximum velocities of the traveling block and a signal representative of a predetermined direction of travel of the traveling block. Output signals are generated if the actual velocity signals are greater than the maximum velocity signal or less than the minimum velocity signal and if the direction of the traveling block deviates from the predetermined direction. |
278 |
Method and apparatus for pipe joint locator, counter and displacement
calculator |
US724729 |
1976-09-20 |
US4110688A |
1978-08-29 |
John M. Bailey |
The invention is a novel method and apparatus for counting pipe joints, passing through a bell nipple, going downhole and uphole by sensing, at spaced apart positions along the nipple utilizing magnetic fields, for the presence of a joint. Each sensor develops signals as the joint passes it and a logical network determines which direction the pipe joint is traveling, adds a plus count to the joint counter for joints going downhole and subtracts a minus count from the joint counter when a joint is sensed coming uphole. Another logical circuit converts the joint count to a stand count, and the negative signals from the stand count trigger an adder network to introduce a binary number to a numeric read-out display, which number is indicative of pipe displacement per stand, withdrawn from hole. |
279 |
Drilling assembly |
US578677 |
1975-05-19 |
US4074774A |
1978-02-21 |
Cicero C. Brown, deceased; by Joe R. Brown, executor |
A drilling machine and relatively small mast are mounted on a pivotal support which permits the drilling machine, mast and drill pipe employed in the assembly to be inclined as required to drill a non-vertical bore hole. The drilling machine is preferably a fluid pressure-operated snubber device which includes a stationary lower gripping head and a vertically reciprocable, upper gripping head operable for rotating drill pipe and for running the drill pipe into and out of the well bore. An internal drill string anchor carried by a traveling block suspended in the mast engages and supports the upper end of the drill string extending from the snubber and also provides drilling fluids to the string. A rotatable seal and support assembly in the anchor maintains a fluid seal and permits the drill pipe to rotate relative to the non-rotating traveling block. The anchor is equipped with slips which grip the internal surface of the drill string and are positively moved into and out of gripping engagement with the drill string by hydraulic controls. A spring bias is provided on the slips to urge the slips into their gripping position and means are provided which increase the gripping force of the slips in response to an increase in the forces tending to separate the drill string from the anchor. |
280 |
Arrangement for exchanging drill bits |
US533136 |
1974-12-16 |
US3977480A |
1976-08-31 |
Jonas Olof Anders Hilding |
In a drill rig, a device for exchanging a drill bit is mounted on a feed bar and is arranged movably to and from the drill axis. The bit exchanging device comprises means for holding a bit being brought thereinto non-rotatively during rotation of the drill string. Furthermore, there are means for providing an anvil to the bit when delivering impacts against the drill string. |