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Number: 166
Name: Wells >
Description: This class relates to processes or means not otherwise classified comprising (1) shafts or deep borings in the earth, commonly known as wells, for the extraction of fluids from the earth, (2) shafts or deep borings in the earth for inserting a fluid into the interstices of a porous earth formation, usually to enable withdrawal of fluid from a producing output well, (3) apparatus peculiarly adapted for treating a well or for use in or with a well, or (4) processes of using, making, or treating a well.


Class Number Class Name No. of Patents
166/75.11

Above ground apparatus

71
166/79.1

Cap having transporting means or ground support

27
166/92.1

Cap or head pivotably attached to tube or casing

26
166/95.1

Central valve or closure and lateral port

77
166/96.1

External anchoring or bracing means

32
166/81.1

Fluid catcher around pipe coupling

53
166/80.1

Having retractable pipe section to allow closing of gate type valve or flapper valve for rod or pipe

19
166/76.1

Having structure for converting from one mode of operation to another; e.g., valve to packer

13
166/88.1

Inner member anchor or seal with lateral port

67
166/89.1

Plural inner pipes

39
166/89.3

Having slip type hanger

11
166/89.2

Parallel pipes (as opposed to concentric)

16
166/88.2

Slip type well anchor

28
166/88.3

Seal actuated with anchor

18
166/88.4

With hydraulic conduit or line extending through outer member

78
166/86.1

Inner member anchor or seal with valve

37
166/86.2

Annular sealing type valve

22
166/87.1

Axially movable type valve

24
166/86.3

Gate type (perpendicular to pipe) valve

21
166/94.1

Laterally adjustable cap or head

8
166/77.1

Moving tubing or cable into an existing well

134
166/77.2

Coiled tubing

164
166/77.3

Chain injector

72
166/77.4

Piston and cylinder

62
166/97.5

Parallel pipes extending along distinct paths through wellhead

45
166/82.1

Releasable seal or cleaner disengaged by projection on inner member

25
166/83.1

Latches releasable radially inward

2
166/93.1

Split cap or head

19
166/75.14

Suspension means

106
166/75.12

Treatment of produced fluids

77
166/75.13

Well caps or casing heads

85
166/85.1

With assembly or disassembly means (e.g., handling, guiding, or tool feature)

153
166/85.5

Guiding or aligning feature

110
166/85.2

Pitless well adapters

27
166/85.3

Seal or bushing insertion or removal

44
166/85.4

With blowout preventer

110
166/91.1

With flow restrictions (e.g., chokes or beans)

54
166/77.51

With means facilitating connecting or disconnecting supported tubing or rod sections

190
166/77.53

Upper and lower slips

57
166/77.52

With elevator detail

79
166/75.15

With means for injecting solid or particulate material into the well

71
166/90.1

With means for inserting fluid into well

180
166/84.1

With seal for reciprocating member

90
166/84.2

Cooling fluid or grease supplied to seals

28
166/84.4

Fluid pressure actuated seals

52
166/84.3

Rotary blowout preventer type

68
166/84.5

Seal fixedly mounted to rod

13
166/78.1

With tube rotating means (rotary tables)

78
166/97.1

With valve on cap or head

81
166/177.7

Agitator

23
166/53

Automatic

407
166/54

Float controlled valve

22
166/170

Brushing, scraping, cutting or punching-type cleaners

51
166/172

Bow spring type

8
166/176

On sucker rod

31
166/173

On tubing or casing

98
166/171

Perforation cleaners

11
166/175

Reciprocable relative to central member extending from well top

18
166/174

Retractable on support while lowering

20
166/177.4

Cementing device

142
166/115

Central chamber sealed with respect to prepositioned modified surrounding conduit

88
166/116

Surrounding conduit carries packer or plug

24
166/114

Central member with pre-set packer or plug in same conduit

15
166/113

Combined (e.g., with non-electrical indicating)

114
166/242.1

Conduit wall or specific conduit end structure

229
166/242.9

Brick or cement casing liner

4
166/242.4

Corrosion prevention or deterring

20
166/242.6

Downhole coupling or connector

221
166/242.7

Telescopic

70
166/242.2

Flexible tube or cable

89
166/242.3

Plural, parallel, nonconcentric conduits

75
166/242.8

Shoe detail

55
166/242.5

Side entry

46
166/102

Convertible

10
166/237

Detents or clutches

162
166/238

Flow permitting means bridging fluid conduit

13
166/240

Lug in closed branched slot

96
166/239

Operated by dropped weight

11
166/206

Expansible anchor or casing

158
166/213

Bowed anchor means

14
166/207

Expansible casing

433
166/217

Expansible means translated by wedge or cam

340
166/212

Fluid pressure actuated

237
166/208

Liner hanger

298
166/209

Set by wedge or cam at any point by drop only (e.g., tubing catcher)

12
166/210

With friction drag for setting by turning movement also

12
166/211

With spring

9
166/214

Spring set

60
166/215

Spring moves anchor slip relative to wedge or cam

27
166/216

With wedge or cam and friction drag

96
166/902

For inhibiting corrosion or coating

243
166/98

Grapple and well anchored lifting means

90
166/241.1

Guide for device or conduit

95
166/241.5

For a wireline operation

53
166/241.2

On sucker or pump rod

16
166/241.3

Rotatable or having a rotatable element

42
166/241.4

Surrounding existing rod

43
166/241.6

Surrounding existing device or tubing

130
166/241.7

Removably secured by a fastener (e.g., pin) parallel to tubing

54
166/177.5

Hydraulic fracturing device

71
166/100

Lateral probe or port sealed against well wall

95
166/117.7

Means anchored against rotation in one conduit section for relatively rotating another section

44
166/54.5

Means for cutting cable or rope below ground

25
166/54.6

Cutting means actuated by contacting element suspended in well by cable or rope

11
166/51

Means for forming filter beds (e.g., gravel placing)

342
166/117.5

Means for guiding insertable element laterally of well axis (e.g., whipstock)

270
166/117.6

Secured in operative position by movable means engaging well conduit (e.g., anchor)

288
166/55

Means for perforating, weakening, bending or separating pipe at an unprepared point

325
166/55.6

Cutter rotates circumferentially of pipe

39
166/55.7

Internal

119
166/55.8

Tool moved radially by fluid pressure

68
166/55.2

Perforating or splitting cutter

93
166/55.3

Wedge or cam actuated

38
166/55.1

With disparate below ground feature

301
166/243

Miscellaneous (e.g., anchor pipes)

83
166/101

Packer or plug and pump or plunger means exerting outward pressure

15
166/179

Packers or plugs

74
166/180

Adjustable over pipe or set over prepositioned pipe

18
166/196

Central support has shoulders expanding sealing portion, or telescopes

102
166/188

Controllable passage through packer

88
166/202

Cup type

81
166/195

Deformable portion engages conduit restriction

42
166/187

Expanded by confined fluid from central chamber, pump or plunger

369
166/192

Flow stopping type; e.g., plug

128
166/193

Free falling type (e.g., dropped ball)

33
166/194

With sleeve valve

33
166/189

For non-concentric members

24
166/203

Non-deformable type

10
166/141

Sealing portion closes port between central pipe and outside space when unexpanded

10
166/191

Spaced sealing portions

193
166/185

With central conduit and fluid port to space outside

45
166/186

Port between sealing portions and bypass around

41
166/183

With controllable bypass outside central conduit

28
166/142

With controllable passage between central chamber and space below packer

43
166/145

Bypass closing and passage opening to upward flow constrained to occur simultaneously

8
166/143

Central conduit detachable

11
166/144

Bottom supported casing or screen section

5
166/146

Passage connects with space below packers and continuously open passageway connects with space between packers

4
166/147

Passage connects with space between packer or plug seals

35
166/152

Passage controllable by movement of central chamber

24
166/148

Upwardly biased check valve and means for opening or bypassing it

12
166/149

With passageway between central chamber and space above packer

4
166/150

Passageway controllable by movement of central chamber

12
166/151

Passageway valve directly responsive to fluid pressure

25
166/184

With controllable passage between central conduit and space above packer or plug

43
166/181

With detachable setting means

74
166/182

Packer or plug locked expanded

93
166/118

With expanding anchor

81
166/120

Anchor actuated by fluid pressure

217
166/121

Pressure transmitted by cup type packer or plug seal

5
166/122

Pressure transmitted by packer or plug expanded by confined fluid from central chamber, pump, or plunger

51
166/135

Flow stopping type, e.g., plug

80
166/132

Portion extends beyond end of surrounding conduit

0
166/119

Relatively movable packers or plugs

18
166/136

Spring set anchor

24
166/137

Spring moves anchor slip relative to wedge or cam

18
166/134

Support and holddown expanding anchors

185
166/138

Wedge or cam and friction drag

64
166/140

Anchor above packer or plug seal

29
166/139

Threaded element rotated

24
166/129

With controllable bypass outside central conduit

47
166/130

Packer expanded by upper valve

2
166/126

With controllable passage between central chamber and space below packer

32
166/128

Passage controllable by movement of central chamber

28
166/127

Spaced packer or plug seals

30
166/131

With controllable passage between central conduit and space above packer or plug

35
166/133

With controllable passage through packer

76
166/123

With detachable setting means

156
166/125

Radially movable latch

83
166/124

Screw threaded

42
166/153

Pistons, fluid driven into well (e.g., cementing plugs)

121
166/154

Surrounding conduit valve or closure opened by piston

51
166/155

With downflow past piston

62
166/156

With stop

77
166/52

Plural wells

117
 

Processes (166/244.1)

 
166/244.1

Processes

64
166/378

Assembling well part

116
166/379

Above ground parts

232
166/380

Conduit

547
166/285

Cementing, plugging or consolidating

404
166/290

By tubing which is subsequently lifted

55
166/289

Discharging cement from casing at different levels

53
166/288

Including heating

120
166/287

Removable molding or forming means

26
166/286

Tamping, vibrating, exploding or using receptacle

56
166/292

Using specific materials

497
166/293

Cement or consolidating material contains inorganic water settable and organic ingredients

560
166/294

Cement or consolidating material is organic or has organic ingredient

467
166/295

Organic material is resin or resinous

818
166/291

With piston separator

216
166/300

Chemical inter-reaction of two or more introduced materials (e.g., selective plugging or surfactant)

827
166/311

Cleaning or unloading well

282
166/312

Liquid introduced from well top

495
166/263

Cyclic injection then production of a single well

121
166/376

Destroying or dissolving well part

132
166/377

Disassembling well part

164
166/304

Dissolving or preventing formation of solid oil deposit

196
166/268

Distinct, separate injection and producing wells

238
166/269

Fluid injected from longitudinally spaced locations in injection well

82
166/271

Including fracturing or attacking formation

211
166/275

Injected fluid comprises water and material other than inorganic gas

476
166/270.1

Injecting a composition including a surfactant or cosurfactant

417
166/270.2

Nonaqueous type

28
166/270

Injecting a composition to adjust the permeability (e.g., selective plugging)

248
166/272.1

Involving the step of heating

210
166/272.7

Horizontal well

73
166/272.2

In association with fracturing or crevice forming processes

39
166/272.6

Liquid material injected

61
166/272.3

Steam as drive fluid

317
166/272.4

In combination with alkyls or carbon chains

34
166/272.5

With override zone, diverting, or path blocking operation

27
166/400

Sequentially injected separate fluids (e.g., slugs)

154
166/401

Injecting a gas or gas mixture

141
166/402

Co2 or carbonated gas

150
166/403

In combination with additional organic material (e.g., alkyls, carbon chains)

43
166/248

Electric current or electrical wave energy through earth for treating

224
166/310

Entraining or incorporating treating material in flowing earth fluid

229
166/284

Fluid flow causes pellet to block opening in wall of conduit

49
166/301

Freeing stuck object, grappling or fishing in well

199
166/278

Graveling or filter forming

538
166/302

Heating, cooling or insulating

499
166/303

Placing preheated fluid into formation

343
166/256

In situ combustion

116
166/259

Including fracturing or attacking formation

213
166/260

Injecting specific fuel or catalyst for burning into formation

58
166/261

Injecting specific material other than oxygen into formation

254
166/257

Injecting while producing by in situ combustion from same well

51
166/258

Plural distinct superimposed formations

23
166/262

Solid fuel or particles in well

14
166/279

Material placed in pores of formation to treat resident fluid flowing into well

197
166/247

Nuclear energy or radioactivity for treating

20
166/373

Operating valve, closure, or changeable restrictor in a well

366
166/374

Operated by fluid pressure controlled above ground

188
166/375

By auxilliary fluid control line

127
166/313

Parallel string or multiple completion well

390
166/297

Perforating, weakening, bending or separating pipe at an unprepared point

547
166/298

Perforating, weakening or separating by mechanical means or abrasive fluid

237
166/305.1

Placing fluid into the formation

604
166/307

Attacking formation

432
166/306

Fluid enters and leaves well at spaced zones

102
166/308.1

Fracturing (epo)

479
166/308.2

Using a chemical (epo)

205
166/308.6

Foam (epo)

70
166/308.5

Including cross-linking agent (epo)

191
166/308.4

Oil based composition (epo)

54
166/308.3

Water based composition with inorganic material (epo)

81
166/381

Placing or shifting well part

299
166/383

By fluid driven piston

152
166/385

Flexible cable or wire

247
166/386

Fluid flow control member (e.g., plug or valve)

544
166/382

Providing support for well part (e.g., hanger or anchor)

585
166/384

With bending of tubing

299
166/387

With sealing feature (e.g., packer)

699
166/296

Preventing flow into strainer while lowering by blocking openings

47
166/309

Producing foam or gas in well by foaming or gas producing material

228
166/369

Producing the well

380
166/372

By fluid lift

315
166/371

Including non-expulsive material placed in well

139
166/370

Including varying downhole pressure

216
166/276

Providing porous mass of adhered filter material in well

157
166/277

Repairing object in well

173
166/264

Sampling well fluid

321
166/281

Separate steps of (1) cementing, plugging or consolidating and (2) fracturing or attacking formation

280
166/265

Separating material entering well

221
166/266

Injection and producing wells

231
166/267

Separating outside of well

517
166/282

Specific low fluid loss feature for fluid attacking formation

75
166/283

Specific low fluid loss feature for fracturing fluid or cement causes fracture

128
166/245

Specific pattern of plural wells

328
166/280.1

Specific propping feature (epo)

194
166/280.2

Composition of proppant (epo)

181
166/246

Using microorganisms

180
166/249

Vibrating the earth or material in or being placed in the earth pores

140
166/299

With explosion or breaking container to implode

173
166/250.01

With indicating, testing, measuring or locating

502
166/250.15

Automatic control for production

195
166/250.07

Bottom hole pressure

119
166/250.03

Determining fluid interface or fluid level

62
166/254.1

Determining position of earth zone or marker

48
166/254.2

Well logging

156
166/255.1

Determining position of object in well

105
166/255.2

Tool orienting

78
166/255.3

Using whipstock

16
166/250.13

Determining stuck point

10
166/250.1

Fracturing characteristic

136
166/250.11

Holder for coupon or sensor

57
166/250.09

Impression means

25
166/251.1

Including in situ combustion

53
166/252.1

Including production of earth fluid by driving fluid

78
166/252.6

And tracing material

25
166/252.4

Flood front

13
166/252.5

Permeability or viscosity

24
166/252.2

Residual oil or oil saturation

27
166/252.3

Salinity or acidity

23
166/250.17

Including testing or treating tool having at least one actuatable packer

118
166/253.1

Indicating the location, presence, or absence of cement

36
166/250.08

Leak testing or locating

60
166/250.14

Of cementing or plugging technique

62
166/250.02

Permeability determining

58
166/250.04

Plug indicating or releasing

11
166/250.16

Prospecting

39
166/250.05

Scale or corrosion determination

17
166/250.06

Steam quality

7
166/250.12

Tracer

47
166/117

Receptacle or part thereof left in well

28
166/162

Receptacles

63
166/167

Bottom receiving and side discharge valves

20
166/169

Lateral ports used in well

87
166/168

Readily releasable bottom valve

15
166/166

Valve control means contacting well conduit wall

7
166/164

With destroyable closure and valve

16
166/163

With separate air chamber having openable passage

18
166/165

With valved or closed top

22
166/56

Screen and outside cleaning pipe

5
166/205

Screen with valve, closure, changeable restrictor or portion removable in well

79
166/157

Screen with washing point or shoe

16
166/158

Detachable wash pipe

7
166/227

Screens

161
166/236

Concentric pipes

114
166/229

Inserted screen plug

14
166/228

Porous material

76
166/231

Spiral

44
166/233

With perforated pipe

83
166/232

With spacing lug for adjacent turns

10
166/235

Stacked annular sections

32
166/234

Strip or rod

22
166/230

Woven mesh

46
166/177.1

Sonic device

45
166/177.2

With specific downhole feature

52
166/335

Submerged well

54
166/338

Connection or disconnection of submerged members remotely controlled

110
166/349

Connection of guide means

58
166/348

Connection of pipe hanging

166
166/344

Connection to provide fluid flow path

166
166/347

Connection of lateral flow line

77
166/345

Connection of riser-and-tubing assembly to other structure

138
166/346

Yieldable tubing

28
166/340

Disconnection

78
166/341

With orienting or aligning of member for connection

186
166/343

Including means to pull member into position

77
166/342

Including removable, member mounted guide

45
166/339

With provision for removal or repositioning of member without removal of other well structure

117
166/364

Including disaster feature

65
166/351

Means removably connected to permanent well structure

61
166/358

Drilling means

86
166/356

Means to provide protective environment for operative access below surface of water

81
166/361

Pipe cutting means

37
166/359

Removable riser

150
166/357

Separator

87
166/352

Surface vessel

79
166/354

Having means to hold vessel at given location (e.g., anchor, etc.)

30
166/353

Having means to move vessel to precise location

15
166/355

With means to compensate for vessel movement

179
166/360

Well component assembly means

74
166/366

Multiple wells

131
166/367

Riser

290
166/350

Submerged, buoyant wellhead or riser

186
166/336

Testing

78
166/337

For leak

40
166/368

Wellhead

314
166/365

With provision for disassembly

67
166/363

With safety or emergency shutoff

97
166/316

Valves, closures or changeable restrictors

70
166/317

Destructible element

246
166/319

Fluid operated

304
166/321

Fluid pressure biased to open position position

364
166/323

Locked open or closed

162
166/322

Retrievable

114
166/324

With fluid pressure equalizing means

181
166/329

Loose ball closure with limited reverse flow

13
166/325

One way, e.g., check valve type

180
166/326

Flexible valve element

28
166/327

Shoes with check valve

50
166/328

Loose ball closure

33
166/320

Variably opened

112
166/332.1

Longitudinally movable operator

117
166/333.1

Contact with bore bottom

11
166/332.8

Flapper type

125
166/332.6

Having a dump or discharge type means

7
166/332.7

Having equalizing valve

36
166/332.2

Having rotational movement

30
166/332.3

Ball valve type

39
166/332.4

Operated by means inserted from the surface

108
166/332.5

Valving means inserted or retrieved to operate

41
166/334.1

Vertical movement of conduit

58
166/334.2

And rotational movement; e.g., ball valve-type

21
166/334.3

Drain-type

5
166/334.4

Fluid flow through lateral port to exterior

115
166/318

Operated by dropped element

146
166/330

Rotated operator

55
166/331

Lug in branched slot, e.g., "j" slot

51
166/177.6

Vibrator

58
166/901

Wells in frozen terrain

36
166/50

Wells with lateral conduits

679
166/222

Whirling or lateral discharge or projectable nozzles

105
166/223

Rotary or projectable

58
166/177.3

Wiper

41
166/67

With below and above ground modification

51
166/72

Above ground actuating means for below ground device

186
166/73

Tubing or casing actuated

37
166/68

Eduction pump or plunger in well

277
166/68.5

With above ground (1) motor carried by casing or casing support or (2) well fluid pump

144
166/70

Head for tool, piston or cleaner (e.g., cement head)

108
166/71

With above ground casing sinking means

6
166/74

With below ground screen

19
166/69

With receptacle for insertion into well

23
166/105

With eduction pump or plunger

344
166/105.5

Having liquid-gas separator

168
166/105.6

Gas fed to entrainment type pump

19
166/105.1

Having sediment trap or deflector

47
166/105.2

Carried by reciprocating plunger or plunger rod

21
166/105.4

In pump discharge flow path

17
166/105.3

Sediment trap formed in pumping chamber

19
166/107

Receptacles

41
166/111

Bail engaging piston rod

1
166/110

Lateral port always below piston and used in well

12
166/108

Piston actuates foot valve

16
166/109

Telescoping

12
166/112

With leak means

12
166/106

With packer or plug

207
166/65.1

With electrical means

536
166/66.4

Electrical motor (e.g., solenoid actuator)

175
166/66

Indicating

436
166/66.5

Magnetic

172
166/66.6

Valve

94
166/66.7

Longitudinally movable operator

91
166/63

With explosive or gas generating means in well

188
166/57

With heating, refrigerating or heat insulating means

236
166/59

Burner in well

95
166/60

Electrical heater in well

215
166/58

Fuel supply or hot billet in well

13
166/61

Heater surrounding production tube

32
166/62

With eduction pump or plunger in well

38
166/178

With jar means for releasing stuck part

148
166/99

With junk retrieving means

76
166/54.1

With means for separately pumping from plural sources in well

22
166/104

With motor for rotary or oscillating motion

38
166/64

With time or distance measuring, temperature responsive or counting means

188
 
 
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Boat-mounted signal light to indicate the presence of water skiers
Method and apparatus for processing photosensitive film
Suspension mechanism for reel mowers
Methods and apparatus for decreasing the size of generated models trained for automatic pattern recognition
Network caching system for streamed applications
Image acquisition by push-broom scanning