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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:
Jun. 21, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2002
Applicants:
Timothy J. Allen, Houston, TX (US);
David H. Theiss, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Timothy J. Allen, Houston, TX (US);
David H. Theiss, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cooper Cameron Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H059/10 ; F16H003/06 ; F16B037/12 ; F16B021/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A rod brake, and a method, including an elastic device, such as a coil spring, array of split rings, or an elastic sleeve, that engages one or more grooves in a cylindrical surface to restrain the rod from longitudinal movement relative to another body, and wherein longitudinal force is applied to distort the elastic device and push it out of the one or more grooves to release the rod for longitudinal movement is disclosed. A locking sleeve is added to lock the elastic device against distortion and movement to the release configuration.