Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Abram Serda Galindo

James Dan Vick, Jr

Jimmie Robert Williamson

Leo Guadalupe Collins

Russell Irving Bayh

Jimmie R Williamson, Jr

A flapper valve assembly including a tubular forming an interior passageway; a valve seat forming a portion of the interior passageway; a flapper plate that is pivotably mounted to the tubular at a pivot point such that the flapper plate is pivotable between a valve closed and a valve open position; and a spring engaging the flapper plate such that the flapper plate is biased towards the valve closed position; wherein, when the flapper plate is in the valve open position, the spring engages a top of the flapper plate at a first distance from the pivot point; wherein, when the flapper plate is in the valve closed position, the spring engages the top of the flapper plate at a second distance from the pivot point; and wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance.

Variable torque flapper valve

A flapper valve assembly that includes a tubular forming an interior passageway and comprising an internal shoulder; a valve seat forming a portion of the interior passageway and spaced from the internal shoulder to form a flapper chamber; a flapper plate that is pivotably mounted to the tubular at a pivot point and positioned within the flapper chamber; wherein the flapper plate is pivotable within the flapper chamber between a valve closed and valve open position; and a first spring extending within the flapper chamber and engaging the flapper plate such that the flapper plate is biased towards the valve closed position; wherein the first spring comprises spaced right and left arms that are in contact with the flapper plate; and wherein, when the flapper plate is in the valve closed position, each of the right and left arms extends away from the flapper plate and towards the internal shoulder.

Flapper valve with beam spring

A safety valve with extension springs. In a described embodiment, a valve for use in a subterranean well includes a closure member having open and closed positions. A structure displaces to cause the closure member to displace between the open and closed positions. A biasing device has a length which decreases as the structure displaces to cause the closure member to displace toward the closed position.

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Carrollton, TX, United States of America

Abram Serda Galindo