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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
James F Giebeler, San Bernardino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
166 70 ; 166155 ; 166156 ; 166193 ;
Abstract
A subsea lifting top drive cement head in which cement flows from the top. The cement head includes lower and upper assemblies with a bore for fluid flow, and a body in sure lock connection with the lower and upper assemblies and having a dart cage to prevent a dart inside the dart cage from being washed away by the cement flow. In addition, the cement head includes a ball dropper that does not need to be retracted prior to releasing the dart.