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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
May. 19, 2005
Charles D. Calkins, Tulsa, OK (US);
Jack E. Miller, Houston, TX (US);
Charles D. Calkins, Tulsa, OK (US);
Jack E. Miller, Houston, TX (US);
TDW Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
For use in closing a cylindrical passageway through a working member in which the passageway is defined in part by a reduced diameter internal circumferential sealing surface and an internal locking groove, a completion plug having a plug body with a cylindrical external surface receivable within the cylindrical passageway of the working member and having an external circumferential sealing surface dimensioned to radially compressibly engage the working member internal circumferential sealing surface. The plug body has on its cylindrical surface an external locking groove. A locking ring is received in the working member internal locking groove and simultaneously in the plug body external locking groove and serves to lock the plug body within the working member.