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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
May. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Nabors Drilling Technologies Usa, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Christopher Magnuson, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 19/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 19/163 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system with a wrench coupled to a rig floor, and the wrench can include a plurality of grippers, a linkage mechanism that couples the plurality of grippers together, and a plurality of actuators coupled to the linkage mechanism, with the plurality of actuators used to apply a force to the linkage mechanism in opposite directions, and with the linkage mechanism configured to evenly distribute the force between the plurality of grippers. The wrench can support a torque wrench or a backup tong of an iron roughneck.