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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
William M. Roberts, Tomball, TX (US);
Lap T. Tran, Houston, TX (US);
William M. Roberts, Tomball, TX (US);
Lap T. Tran, Houston, TX (US);
Smith International, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An anchoring device to secure a packer assembly within a casing, including a frangible ring having a plurality of grips on an outer circumference, wherein a first end of the frangible ring includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots, and an expansion ring having a plurality of castellations configured to engage the slots of the first end of the frangible ring is disclosed. A method to secure a packer assembly in a casing, including engaging a plurality of arcuate segments of a segmented ring with a plurality of slots in a first end of a frangible ring, engaging a plurality of castellations of an expansion ring with the plurality of slots on a second end of the frangible ring, and moving the expansion ring in an axial direction towards the frangible ring and splitting the frangible ring into a plurality of slip segments, thereby radially extending the plurality of slip segments and segmented ring into the casing is also disclosed.