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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2022
Weatherford Technology Holdings, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Shawn J Treadaway, Houston, TX (US);
Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A downhole tool, such as a bridge plug, has a carrier disposed on the tool between the opposing cones. Slips are disposed adjacent to the tool between the carrier and the cones. One arrangement has a proximal end of each slip connected by a linkage configured to articulate the proximal end relative to the carrier, while a distal end of each slip is configured to engage the cone opposed thereto. The linkage can be a linkage hingedly connected between the slip's proximal end and the carrier. Alternatively, the linkage can be a leaf spring flexibly connected between the slip's proximal end and the carrier. Another arrangement has linkages hingedly connected to the carrier and hingedly connected toward opposing ends of each slip. The linkages articulate the slip relative to the carrier while the ends of the slip engage the opposing cones.