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Title: Down hole shock absorber

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5434389

This patent describes a well pump system. It comprises: a sucker rod string; a pump reciprocable in response to the string; a cylinder; a piston disposed for vertical reciprocal motion within the cylinder; means for biasing the cylinder and the piston against compressive motion; means for pneumatically relieving pressure in the cylinder during compressive motion; and means for preventing relative rotational motion and for limiting relative expansive motion between the cylinder and the piston; the cylinder and the piston being coaxially mounted in the sucker rod string proximate and above the pump to buffer forces transmitted through the string.

Assignee:
NOV; NOV-91-018055; EDB-91-121737
Patent Number(s):
US 4997037; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-385814
OSTI ID:
5434389
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 26 Jul 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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