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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2024
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing a rotating a mule shoe assembly. The mule shoe assembly is disclosed with a top sub adapted to be connected to a tool string. A spring retainer for retaining a wave spring in a chamber created by the top sub and spring retainer. A mule shoe adjacent the spring retainer that linearly translate and rotate when a force is applied. The spring retainer has one or more pins that engages one or more linear slots in the top sub. A key moves in an indexing slot causing the mule shoe to linearly translate and rotate. The indexing slot is machined in the outer diameter of the top sub. During the stroke of the mule shoe, the one or more pins move in the linear slots and the key moves in the indexing slot.