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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2025
Kerr Machine Co., Sulphur, OK (US);
Kelcy Jake Foster, Sulphur, OK (US);
Micheal Cole Thomas, Azle, TX (US);
Christopher Todd Barnett, Stratford, OK (US);
Nicholas Son, Davis, OK (US);
John Keith, Ardmore, OK (US);
Kerr Machine Co., Sulphur, OK (US);
Abstract
A fluid end section having a clamping system. The clamping system has a primary clamp formed of a number of sections, which, disposed in end-to-end arrangement, form an annular ring. The primary clamp has an angled surface at each of two rims, which interact with complementary surfaces on flanges that form two separate components of the fluid end section. Each of the two separate components have a bore, which when aligned by placement of the clamp, are in alignment with one another. The clamp has an externally-disposed compression ring, which may either be essentially the width of the primary clamp, or may have one or more flexible rods which interact with grooves on the primary clamp. In either case, the compression ring holds the primary clamp in place, therefore joining the components of the fluid end.