US3804111A - Apparatus for storing a flexible elongated member, such as a flexible drill column - Google Patents

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US3804111A
US3804111A US26447072A US3804111A US 3804111 A US3804111 A US 3804111A US 26447072 A US26447072 A US 26447072A US 3804111 A US3804111 A US 3804111A
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J Thiery
P Grolet
R Reynard
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • B65H75/36—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion
    • B65H75/362—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion with stored material housed within a casing or container
    • B65H75/364—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion with stored material housed within a casing or container the stored material being coiled
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B19/00—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables
    • E21B19/22—Handling reeled pipe or rod units, e.g. flexible drilling pipes
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/6851—With casing, support, protector or static constructional installations
    • Y10T137/6918—With hose storage or retrieval means
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/6851—With casing, support, protector or static constructional installations
    • Y10T137/6918—With hose storage or retrieval means
    • Y10T137/6954—Reel with support therefor
    • Y10T137/6958—Ground supported
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/6851—With casing, support, protector or static constructional installations
    • Y10T137/6918—With hose storage or retrieval means
    • Y10T137/6962—Basket or holder for folded coiled hose

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  • ABSTRACT The invention relates to an apparatus for storing an elongated member, such as a flexible drill column.
  • This apparatus is constituted by an annular base plate on which the elongated member is coiled.
  • This base plate is formed by a plurality of interconnected elements, each having substantially the shape of annular sector.
  • This base plate is operatively associated to guiding means and means for driving it in rotation, one of said means being stationary and the other solid with said base plate.
  • This invention relates to an apparatus for storing an elongated member, such as a cable or a flexible hose or pipe.
  • the apparatus according to the invention is adapted for storing and handling a flexible drill column.
  • These apparatuses are generally constituted by an annular basket supported by a vertical swivel co-axial with this annular basket.
  • Driving means rotate this basket about the swivel which is solid with a base structure supporting the entire apparatus.
  • a rotary hydraulic coupling co-axial with the basket, feeds the flexible pipe with hydraulic fluid.
  • An object of the present invention is accordingly to provide an apparatus for storing a flexible elongated member, which does not suffer from the drawbacks of the prior devices.
  • the apparatus according to the invention for storing a flexible elongated member includes an inner cylindrical frame having a substantially vertical axis, an outer cylindrical frame substantially coaxial to the inner frame, said frames forming between each other a space which is open at its upper part, so as to allow the paswidth which is greater than the diameter of the elongated member, the inner frame having a radius at least equal to the minimum radius of curvature of the elongated member, means for guiding the rotation of the so-constituted assembly about said vertical axis, driving means cooperating with said guiding means and means for energizing said driving means.
  • the annular base plate is constituted by a plurality of elements, each having substantially the shape of an annular sector, said elements being interconnected by flexible connecting means, allowing a vertical displacement of said elements relative to one another, each of said elements supporting a corresponding fraction of said inner and outer frames, said guiding and driving means cooperating with each other for simultaneously supporting and driving in rotation said baseplate, one of said guiding FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates a first embodiment of apparatus according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a view from below of the apparatus illustrated by FIG. 1, and
  • FIG. 3 illustrates another embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates a first embodiment of apparatus according to the invention for storing a flexible elongated member, such as a flexible drill column 18.
  • the apparatus includes a cylindrical inner frame 1,
  • the radial width between the'two frames is greater than the diameter of the flexible pipe and the radius of the inner frame is at least equal to the minimum radius of curvature of the stored flexible pipe.
  • the two frames define a space 3 which is closed at its lower part by an annular base plate 4 and open at its upper part, thus allowing the passage of the flexible pipe.
  • the frames 1 and 2 may be constituted, as diagrammatically illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, by rigid vertical rods 5.
  • the base plate 4 is constituted by a plurality of elements 6, each having substantially'the shape of an annular sector and supporting a corresponding portion of the cylindrical frames 1 and 2.
  • the elements 6 are interconnected by diagrammatically illustrated connecting members 7 forming the annular base plate 4.
  • These connecting members may be of any known type preferably such as to allow a slight displacement of the elements 6 relative to one another, for the reasons indicated hereinunder.
  • each element 6 Under each element 6 are secured in a known manner three wheels 8, 9 and 10 (FIG. 2), this number being not limitative. These wheels, which support the base structure 4, are displaceable along a guide path constituted for example by two annular and concentrical rails 11 and 12, substantially centered on the axis of the apparatus. These rails rest on a ballast 13 which is provided for this purpose.
  • the wheels are provided with motors 14 for driving the apparatus in rotation about its vertical axis.
  • the motors 14 may be hydraulic or electric motors.
  • the elongated member 18 stored in the apparatus is a flexible hose or pipe which must be supplied with a hydraulic fluid, such as a flexible drill pipe
  • a hydraulic rotary coupling 16 of any known type carried by a stationary axis 15. The rotary part of this coupling is driven by the apparatus and provides for the hydraulic fluid supply of the flexible hose 18 through a pipe 19.
  • a second rotary coupling 17 provides the power supply to the motors 14.
  • This coupling may be a hydraulic coupling similar to the coupling 16 in the case where the motors 14 are hydraulic motors, or an electrical connector, in the case of electric motors.
  • Such an apparatus has the advantage of being easily operated.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates another embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention.
  • the guideway which consists in this case of a rail 20, is solid with the annular base plate 4.
  • This railway rests on a plurality of wheels or rollers 21 carried by support members 23 resting on the ballast 13.
  • Hydraulic or electric motors 22 drive wheels 21 which rotate the storing apparatus about its vertical axis.
  • An apparatus for storing an elongated flexible member comprising an inner cylindrical frame with a substantially vertical axis, an outer cylindrical frame substantially co-axial with said inner frame, said frames forming between each other a space which is open at its upper part so as to allow the passage of the elongated member and closed at its lower part by an annular base plate, said space having a radial width which is greater than the cross-sectional diameter of the elongated member, the inner frame having a radius at least equal to the minimum radius of curvature of the elongated member, means for guiding the rotation of the so-constituted assembly about said vertical axis, driving means cooperating with said guiding means and means for supplying power to said driving means, said annular plate being consituted by a plurality of elements each having substantially the shape of an annular sector, said elements being interconnected through flexible connecting means, allowing a vertical displacement of said elements relative to one another, eachof said elements supporting a corresponding fraction of said inner and outer frames, said guiding and driving means cooperating with each
  • said elongated flexible member is a flexible drill pipe supplied with hydraulic fluid from a source of fluid, further comprising substantially on the vertical axis of said inner frame a rotary hydraulic coupling solid with said base structure, said coupling connecting said source to one end of the flexible pipe.
  • a storing apparatus wherein said guiding means are constituted by at least one circular rail and said driving means comprise a plurality of weels in contact with said rail and means for driving in rotation at least one of said wheels.
  • a storing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said guiding rail is solid with said base plate.
  • a storing apparatus wherein said wheelsare solid with said base plate, said apparatus being provided substantially on said vertical axis of the inner frame, with a rotary coupling solid with said base structure, said coupling supplying power to said motor for rotating said assembly.
  • a storing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said motor is an hydraulic motor.
  • a storing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said motor is an electric motor.

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