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Multiple-drum storing winch for reeling and unreeling a flexible line of great length Download PDF

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US3494374A
US3494374A US733949A US3494374DA US3494374A US 3494374 A US3494374 A US 3494374A US 733949 A US733949 A US 733949A US 3494374D A US3494374D A US 3494374DA US 3494374 A US3494374 A US 3494374A
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Roger Tindy
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    • 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
    • E21B19/08—Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables; Apparatus for increasing or decreasing the pressure on the drilling tool; Apparatus for counterbalancing the weight of the rods
    • E21B19/084—Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables; Apparatus for increasing or decreasing the pressure on the drilling tool; Apparatus for counterbalancing the weight of the rods with flexible drawing means, e.g. cables
    • 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
    • B65H75/38—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 involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4478—Constructional details relating to handling of fluids
    • 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
    • B65H75/38—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 involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4481—Arrangements or adaptations for driving the reel or the material
    • 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
    • B65H75/38—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 involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4481—Arrangements or adaptations for driving the reel or the material
    • B65H75/4489—Fluid motors
    • 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
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L3/00—Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, e.g. hangers, holders, clamps, cleats, clips, brackets
    • F16L3/006—Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, e.g. hangers, holders, clamps, cleats, clips, brackets for pipes with a rectangular cross-section
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/33—Hollow or hose-like material
    • 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
    • Y10T137/6921—With means for plural hoses

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  • a winch for a flexible line made of successive sections connected end to end including several coaxial drums providing at least two driving drums having means for separate rotation thereof, at least one additional drum which is located between the two driving drums and is provided with means for selectively securing the addi tional drum to either of said driving drums.
  • the present invention relates to a storing winch for a flexible line, such as for a fluid supplied flexible pipe, permitting to wind and unreel alength of flexible pipe made of a number of unit-sections, thereby reducing as much as possible the periods of break of the reeling or unreeling operation, and of interruption of the fluid feeding, which are necessary for connecting and uncoupling the unitsections of the pipe.
  • the flexible line wound on this winch may also be a cable constituted by successive sections connected end to end.
  • Such a storing winch is of particular interest in very deep earth drilling using as a drilling stem a flexible pipe at the lower end of which the drill bit is directly coupled to a driving motor which is supplied with electric or hydraulic energy from the surface through this flexible pipe.
  • this winch having a hollow shaft connected with one end of the flexible pipe and supplied with drilling fluid by means of a swivel coupling.
  • the main object of the present invention is to suppress the idle periods necessary for reeling additional pipe sections on the winch and particularly to reduce the duration of the breaks in the drilling fluid supplying.
  • a storing winch divided into several coaxial drums which may be independently rotated, these drums including at least two driving drums and at least one additional drum located between said two driving drums and provided with means for making at will said additional drum fast in rotation with any of said driving drums.
  • the winch will be provided with a hollow shaft for feeding said pipe through swivel coupling.
  • Each of the driving drum will then include a device for separate hydraulic connection of the flexible pipe with said hollow shaft.
  • this storing winch will comprise the steps of making said additional drum fast with a first of said driving drum, so as to constitute a storing capacity on which a section of flexible line is wound, starting to wind said line around said first driving drum, said section of flexible line being then unreeled until said additional drnm is empty, said additional dmm being then uncoupled from said first driving drum and made fast in rotation with the second driving drum, so as to constitute therewith a new storing capacity on which a new section of flexible line is wound, starting to wind said new section on said second driving-drum, said winding of said new line section being carried out without interrupting the unreeling of that part of said first line section which remains wound on said first driving-drum.
  • FIGURE 1 is a front view of this embodiment
  • FIGURES 2A to 2D diagrammatically illustrate successive steps of the unreeling of a flexible pipe, during a drilling operation.
  • the reference numeral 1 designates the winch shaft, this shaft being hollow so as to provide for the supply of the pipe stored on this winch with fluid under pressure through pipes 2 and 3 respectively connected with the two ends of this shaft and which are provided with valves 4 and 5. These pipes are connected through the pipe 6 with the outlet of a system for recycling the drilling mud.
  • the shaft 1 rests at both ends on bearings 7 and 8 carried by a frame 9 which rests upon the ground through a base plate 10.
  • the winch includes in this embodiment three drums 11, 12, 13 which are normally not integral with one another but may be at will made fast in rotation in pairs or all three simultaneously, by means of any suitable device, such as the latches 14a, for making the drums 11 and 12 fast with each other, and 14b, for the drums 1'2 and 13, this means for making adjacent drums integral with each other being not limitative and not excluding, in particular devices for coupling or uncoupling the considered drums during their rotation, such as friction or electromagnetic clutches.
  • any suitable device such as the latches 14a, for making the drums 11 and 12 fast with each other, and 14b, for the drums 1'2 and 13, this means for making adjacent drums integral with each other being not limitative and not excluding, in particular devices for coupling or uncoupling the considered drums during their rotation, such as friction or electromagnetic clutches.
  • the flanges 15 and 16 of the winch are secured to the end drums 11 and 13.
  • the selected number of the drums may be different from three, provided the number of driving drums 11, 13 is at least equal to two.
  • It also includes means for separately supplying drilling fluid through the shaft 1, to pipe sections respectively wound on the driving-drum 11 and on the driving drum 13, this means including swivel coupling 19 and 20, connecting pipes 21 and 22 and connecting mouthpieces 23 and 24 for connection with the flexible pipe.
  • a separating wall 25 inside the hollow shaft 1, permits to break the hydraulic fluid supply to either the connecting mouthpieces 23 and 24 by simply controlling the corresponding valves 4 or 5.
  • FIGURE 1 A way of operating the winch according to the invention shown by FIGURE 1 is diagrammatically illustrated, as an example, by FIGURES 2A to 2D in the case of deep drilling using as a drill pipe a flexible pipe 26 at the lower end of which is connected a drill bit 27 and the motor for driving the same.
  • the reference numeral 28 indicates a traction device for the pipe, this device providing in particular for the supporting of the length of pipe 26 unwound into the drilled well.
  • This traction device may, for example, be constituted by one or several traction grabs with endless chains provided with clamping shoes which grip the pipe.
  • drums 11 and 12 are made fast in rotation with each other and the drums 12 and 13 are uncoupled.
  • a first section of the pipe 26 is reeled on the two drums 11 and 12, this section issuing from non-illustrated spool and being connected with the mouthpiece 23 of the drum 11.
  • the reeling on the drums 11 and 12 is performed by operating the motor 17 which drives the drum 11 in rotation.
  • the drilling operation can then be started after the drill bit and its driving motor have been connected with the free end of the flexible pipe 26, the valve being shut and the valve 4 open, so as to provide for the supply of the pipe 26 through the swivel coupling 19 of the drum 11.
  • the unreeling of the pipe as the drilling proceeds is achieved by operating the traction device which unwinds the pipe, the hydraulic motor 7 being stopped and braking the unreeling.
  • the end of the first pipe section is then connected with the free end of the second section which has been previously wound on the drums 12 and 12 and the fluid circulation is started again by opening the valve 5 (the valve 4 remaining closed).
  • the drilling operation is started again at once by actuating the traction device 28 which unreels the pipe at the drilling speed, the hydraulic motor 18 remaining stopped.
  • Winch for a flexible line constituted of successive sections connected end to end, permitting to reduce the time required by handling operations for unreelng a line section already wound on said winch and inversely for reeling an additional section
  • said Winch including several coaxial drums, said drums comprising at least two driving drums provided with means for separately rotating said driving drums and at least an additional drum located between said driving drums, said additional drum being provided with means for making it at will fast in rotataion with any of said driving drums.

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