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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2018
Applicant:
Frank's International, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Malcolm Graham Stedman Gray-Stephens, Aberdeenshire, GB;
Dougal Brown, Scotland, GB;
Assignee:
FRANK'S INTERNATIONAL, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 19/084 (2006.01); E21B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 19/084 (2013.01); E21B 19/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A portable apparatus for vertically positioning tubulars in a mousehole of a drilling rig includes a main body housing a winch and an anchor point. The main body is configured to be radially aligned with the mousehole. The apparatus also includes a float assembly which is suspended within the mousehole below the main body and a cable wound onto the winch. The cable extends downward into the mousehole traversing the mousehole at the float assembly and then extends upward to and attached to the anchor point on the main body.