US1513061A - Cable-reeling device - Google Patents

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Oct. 28 1924.

A. F. M.UTH

CABLE REELING DEVICE Filed June 13. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Jun Not 64 A- F.Murw.

Get. 28 1924.

A. F. MUTH CABLE REELING DEVICE Filed June 13. 19

Patented Qct. 2 8 1924.

mrso STATES 1,513,061 PATENT OFFICE.

ANTHONY r. MUTE, or ELIDORADO,

KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF FIVE-SIXTEEIITHS T0 JOHN J'. MUTE, TWO-SIXTEENTHS TO WILFR'ED' H. MUTH, AND O'NE-SIXTEENTH '10 CHARLES A. MUTE, ALL OF ELDORADO, KANSAS.

CABLE-FEELING DEVICE.

Application filed June 13, 1923. 'Serial No. 645,112

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY F. MUTH, citizen of the United States, residing at Eldoraclo, in the county of Butler, and State 01'' Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Reeling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved cable reeling device particularly designed forvuse in connection with deep well drilling operations and seeks, among other objects, to rovide a device whereby the cables of a wel rig may each be readily wound upon a proper spool or, with equal facility, unwound from the spool for use.

The invention seeks, as a further object, to provide a device elevating a cable spool clear of the ground so that the spool may be turned.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means for journaling the spool and efiecting the rotation thereof.

And the invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide means for braking the spool so that the rotation thereof may be easily controlled.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved reeling device, parts being broken away and illustrated in section,

. F1 re 2 is a top plan view of the device showin the structure when arranged for unwinding a cable from a reel,

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view showmg the structure when arranged for winding a cable onto a reel,

Figure 4 is a detail elevation of one of the dgeons of the device,

Figure 5 is a detail elevation of the other of the gudgeons of the device, and

Figure 6 is a detail elevation of the combined brake and pulley ring employed.

In carrying the invention into effect, I employ companion 7 standards including channel-shaped base members -10 formed medially with tapered sockets 11 and provided near the ends thereof with openings 12 to receive suitable stakes, as suggested in Figure 1, for fastening the base members to-the ground. Preferably, the base memhere are also provided near the ends thereembodying means for ends,

of with a plurality of openings 13 to receive nails so that the base members may, when necessary, be secured to the floor of a well rig. Detachably mounted upon the base members are companion uprights each including parallel channel-shaped bars 1i connected at their lower ends by a tapered terminal 15, the terminals of the uprights removably fitting in the sockets 11 of the base members, and extending through said terminals and through the? side walls of the sockets 11 are one or more bolts 16 detachably securing the uprights in position. The bars 14 are provided with longitudinally extending slots 17 and-slidable between said bars are preferably wooden bearing blocks 18 each provided, with vertically spaced openings 19. Extending through the blocks and through the slots 17 are bolts 20 slidably connecting the blocks with.

the bars 14 and, as shown, thebolts are arranged to alternate with the openings 19 and are equipped with nuts countersunk in bolts will further function to reinforce the blocks against splitting. At their lower the blocks are provided with reduced portions 21 to which are bolted U-shaped plates 22 and swiveled upon said plates are jack screws 23 threaded through plates 24 secured to the upper ends of the terminals 15 of the uprights between the bars 14, the jack screws being freely received in suitable openings in said terminals. The jackscrews are formed with apertured bosses 25 with which a suitable bar or the like may be engaged for rotating the screws and elevating the bearing blocks. Bolted to one of the bars 14: of each of the uprights is a plate 26 having a stud 27 and detachably engaged with said'studs are laterally extending braces 28 provided at their upper ends with sleeves 29 removably fitting over the studs, the studs being apertured to receive cotter pins or the like for preventing displacement of the sleeves. At their lower ends, the braces are provided with foot plates 30 in which are formed openings 31 to receive stakes securing the braces to the ground and, preferably, said plates are also provided with smaller openings 32 to rig;

' 38. As brought out in Figures 4 and 5, the

gudgeons 35 and 37 are each provided witha plurality of spurs 39 to sink into the side plates of the spool and alternating with said spurs are openings 40 adapted, as shown at the left of Figure 3, to receive nails detachably securing the gudgeons to the spool. Thus, the gudgeons may be readily assembled upon the spool. The bearing sleeves 36 and 38 of the gudgeons are adapted to rotatably fit through the openings 19 of the bearing blocks 18, the lowermost openings of the blocks being employed for a small spool and the uppermost openings for a large spool, and formed in said gudgeons at their outer ends are notches 41. Freely fitting over the shaft 34 at the ends thereof are washers 42 having lugs 43. engaging in said notches securing the washers to turn with the gudgeons and threaded upon the ends of the.

shaft are nuts 44 clamping the gudgeons in binding engagement with the spool as well as also holding the washers 42 against the outer side faces of the bearing blocks for limiting the spool against lateral play. In mounting the spool, the gudgeonsare first secured thereon, y when the standards are brought into position and the bearing sleeves .of the gudgeons inserted through the desired openings of the bearing blocks. The shaft 34 is then arranged in position, when the jack screws 23 may then be operated for elevating the spool from the ground or the floor of a well rig, as the case may be. In conjunction with the gudgeon37, I employ a spacing sleeve 45, the exact purpose of which will be later described.

Formed in the gudgeon 37 at its inner side is, as shown in detail in Figure 5, a plurality of sockets 46 opening through the periphery of the gudgeon and surrounding the gudgeon is a combined pulley and braking ring 47 provided at one side with a notch 48. Projecting radially inward from the inner circumference of said ring is a plurality of lugs 49 fitting in the sockets 46 of the gudgeon so that the gudgeon will thus act against said lugs for clamping the ring against the adjacent side plateof the spool while the lugs will lock the ring and gud-v geon to turn in unison. Formed in said lugs are openings 50 which, as shown at the right of Figure 3, are adapted to receive nails detachably securing the ring tothe spool so that the ring may be readily assembled upon the spool. In conjunction with the ring 47 I employ a brake which is used when unwinding a cable from the spool and for this operation the spacing sleeve 45 is, as best shown in Figure 2, arranged at the outer side of the bearing block of one of the standards so that the ring will be disposed close to said standard. Detachably bolted to said standard is a bracket 51 and, in this connection, it is to be noted that the flanges of the adjacent side bar of the standard are provided, as shown in Figure l, with vertically spaced openings to receive the bolts for the bracket in order that the bracket may be positioned to suit the elevation of the spool. The bracket 51 is formed with a sleeve 52 through which is journaled a crank shaft 53 having a lever 54 and formed on the bracket below the sleeve 52 is a sleeve 55 in which is fixed a pin 56. Secured at one end to the crank shaft is a brake strap 57 surrounding the ring 47 and detachably engaged at its opposite end with the pin 56, the strap carrying beveled shoes 58 fitting'in the groove of the ring. Thus, after a cable upon the spool has been attached to the bull wheel shaft of a well rig, said shaft may be rotated for winding the cable thereon and the brake lever 54 operated for braking the rotation of the spool to. obtain the desired tightness upon the winding of the cable. In winding a cable onto the spool, the brake is removed while the spacing sleeve 45 is arranged at the inner side of one of the standards, as shown in Figure 3, so as to provide room between said standard and the ring 47 ,for training a drive belt, as conventionally illustrated at 59, around the ring. This may be accomplished by arranging the belt to extend partially around the ring and engaging the belt in the notch 48 of said ring when, by manually rotating the spool, the belt may be disposed in the groove of the ring. Having thus engaged the belt with the ring, the spool may then, of course, be readily rotated, by the source of power employed, for turning the spool and windingthe cable thereon. It will accordingly be seen that I provide a particularly eflicient device for the purpose set forth and a device which will materially facilitate the handling of well rig cables.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A reeling device including companion standards, bearing blocks slidable vertically thereon means for elevating said blocks, companion means for journaling a spool upon the blocks, and means to coact with one of saidjournaling means for braking the rotation of the spool.

2. A reeling device including companion standards, bearing blocks carried thereby, gudgeons to abut the ends of a spool and rotatably support the s 001 upon the blocks, means for clamping t e gudgeons against the ends of the spool, a combined brake and pulley ring encircling one of said gudgeons and locked thereto to turn therewith, and brake mechanism arranged to coact with said ring. Y

3. A reeling device comprising standards bearing blocks slidably mounted on said standards, jack screws swiveled at their upper ends to the lower ends of the bearing blocks and having threadedengagement at their lower ends with the lower ends of-the standards, a spool disposed between thestandards, and udgeons secured to of the spool and rotatably fitted in the hearing blpcks. I

4:. A reeling devicejeomprising companion standards, bearing blocks slidably mounted in the standards, means for securing the blocks at a setheight in the standards, spool disposedbetween the standards, gudgeons secured to theends of the spool and having axial bearing sleeves. rotata 1y fitted in the bearing blocks a shaft extending through the spool 'an the sleeves of the gudgeons, and means on the ends of the shaft to secure the shaft in the bearing blocks.

5. A reeling device comprising companion standards, bearing blocks slidablymounted in thestandards and provided with a plu- 30 rality of vertically spaced openings, means position in the standards, a spool dispose the ends in adjusted dbetween the standards, dgeons secured to the ends of the spool an having axial bearings rotatably fitted in selected openings the bearing blocks, one of the gudgeons bein for securing the bearing blocks provided on its inner end with periphera sockets, and a grooved pulley ring encircling said gudgeon and provided on its inner periphery with lugs to engagethe sockets in the gudgeon.

6. A reelin device comprising companion standards eac consisting ofchanneled bars having vertically extending slots located between their vertical side edges and a terminal connecting the lower en s' of said bars, bearing blocks slidably fitted between the bars on each standard, securing bolts secured through the bearing blocks with their ends en aging in the slots in the bars of the stand-- ar s, nuts on said bolts countersunk in the bearing ends of the bolts and turned home against the bars ofthe standards a spool disposed between the standards, and gudgeons secured to the ends of the spool and rotatably engaged in the bearing blocks.

In testimony whereofI alfix my signature.

. ANTHONY F. MUTH, [a m] blocks, other nuts mounted on the

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