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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Robert E Able, Bozeman, MT (US);
Boart Longyear International Holdings, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
The overshot apparatus includes a head subassembly coupleable to the overshot coupling device of an inner tube assembly, a jar subassembly having an outer swivel end portion for having a wire line attached thereto and a tubular member and a cable subassembly having an axially elongated cable, an axial outer cable mount mounted to the tubular member with the cable extended therethrough and into the tubular member and providing a jar head, and an axial inner cable mount providing a jar member mounting the cable to the head subassembly and having the jar head delivering hammering blows thereto. The cable is of a rigidity for being movable into the tubular member to permit the jar head moving delivering a hammering blow to the jar member and a spread apart position. The cable is of a flexibility that when the subassemblies are in a spread apart position and the overshot assembly is being lowered with an inner tube assembly coupled thereto, the cable is arcuately bendable as the inner tube assembly is moved from a vertical condition to a horizontal position on the ground with the central axes of the subassemblies extending less than about 135 degrees relative to one another.