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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
May. 20, 2003
Frederick B. Pippert, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Frederick B. Pippert, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Utex Industries, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A packing assembly for use with a rotary drilling swivel having a cylindrical wash pipe comprising a housing assembly including a packing gland forming a sealing assembly chamber around the wash pipe, the packing gland including an injection port in open communication with the chamber, a sealing assembly disposed in the chamber and including a first annular seal ring surrounding and in sealing engagement with the wash pipe, an annular containment member disposed in the chamber in surrounding relation to the wash pipe and axially spaced from the first seal ring and an injectable packing composition in sealing engagement with the wash pipe and disposed between the first seal ring and the containment member, one of the wash pipe and the packing assembly being rotatable relative to the other.