Pipe gripping device
CA 2250686 C · Owner: Brown, Matthew · Inventors: Brown, Matthew; Downie, R. James
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A pipe gripping device is taught which is useful for moving pipe into and/or out of a well. The pipe gripping device includes a first set of slips for holding a pipe in a pipe light condition and a second set of slips for holding a pipe in a pipe heavy condition. The second set of slips are actuatable independently from the first set of slips. The pipe gripping device can include a slip moving system which prevents the slip carrier blocks from being driven outwardly against the housing to thereby prevent the carrier blocks from locking, by being driven against the housing.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 20, 1998 and granted September 30, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 20, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 20, 2020.
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