Stuffing box for a sucker rod pump assembly

Patent · Tue Mar 03 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6738929

Johnson, M B

A stuffing box is described for use with a sucker rod pump assembly for a producing well including a polish rod at the upper end of the sucker rods, comprising a tubular housing for mounting on the wellhead of a producing well through which the polish rod reciprocates. Two longitudinally spaced packing assemblies are located in the tubular housing in sealing engagement with the polish rod and the housing to provide an annular chamber for a lubricating fluid to surround the polish rod. The box also comprises a lubricating fluid reservoir mounted on the tubular housing and surrounding the portion of the housing in which the annular chamber is located, upper and lower ports in the housing adjacent the upper and lower ends of the chamber connecting the annular chamber with the lubricating fluid reservoir, the housing being imperforate between the ports, and a removable annular spacer located in the annular chamber between the packing assemblies to hold the packing assemblies spaced apart. The spacer has upper and lower ports adjacent the upper and lower end of the chamber and is in substantially the same plane as the upper and lower ports in the housing.

• Assignee: Anadarko Production Co., Houston, TX
• Patent Number(s): US 4647050
• OSTI ID: 6738929
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
020300* -- Petroleum-- Drilling & Production
CONTAINERS
COOLING
DENSITY
ENERGY LOSSES
FRICTION
HEAT LOSSES
LOSSES
LUBRICANTS
LUBRICATING OILS
OIL WELLS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PACKINGS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PUMPS
ROD PUMPS
SPACE DEPENDENCE
SPACERS
TUBES
WELLHEADS
WELLS