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Title: Setting tool for mechanical power

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6009435

Apparatus for setting packer equipment in a well casing, comprising: a tubular setting tool connectable to drill string; a tubular packer mandrel having a reduced diameter part and internal threads formed on an upper end thereof, the mandrel further including a lug adjacent the reduced diameter part; a coupling member fixed to the tubular setting tool and shearably fixed to the packer mandrel; a ring member having threads and slideable on the reduced diameter part of the packer mandrel, the ring further including a notch for receiving the mandrel lug so that rotation of the packer mandrel also rotates the ring; a plurality of toothed slips arranged around the packer mandrel, the slips each being adapted for engaging with the well casing; an elastomeric boot encircling the packer mandrel and adapted for deforming outwardly in a sealing engagement with the casing; and a cylindrical cover sleeve surrounding the tubular packer mandrel and adapted for at least partially covering the slips for maintaining the slips arranged around the mandrel, the cover sleeve having threads engageable with the threads of the ring. The method for using this apparatus to set the packer in the casing is also described.

Assignee:
Dresser Industries, Inc., Dallas, TX
Patent Number(s):
US 4830103
OSTI ID:
6009435
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 12 Apr 1988
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English