Brake, shear and cable management system and method
AssigneeAbsolute Oilfield Equipment, LLC
InventorsFrank Fetters, III, Mark Dunbar
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Abstract
The invention relates to a brake, shear and cable management system and method for effectively braking and cutting cable from a rotatable drum, such as drilling line, boring line, electrical line, fiber optic line or the like. The brake, shear and cable management system includes a cable management assembly, a cable brake assembly and a cable cutting assembly used in conjunction to manage, retain and sever a spent portion of cable upon the drum.
Claims22
A method of severing a span of wire rope of a drawworks for an oil field drilling rig, said method comprising the steps of:
- positioning said span of said wire rope intermediate of a pair of crawler assemblies of a wire rope management assembly;
- securely retaining said span of said wire rope with a wire rope brake assembly;
- securely retaining said span of said wire rope with said crawler assemblies of said wire rope management assembly;
- and
- severing said span of said wire rope with a wire rope cutting assembly.
A method of severing a span of wire rope of a drawworks for an oil field drilling rig, said method comprising the steps of:
- selectively positioning a brake, shear and management assembly between a parked position for managing said wire rope and a retracted position during non-use;
- positioning said span of said wire rope intermediate of a crawler assembly of a wire rope management assembly of said brake, shear and management assembly;
- securely retaining said span of said wire rope with said crawler assembly of said wire rope management assembly;
- and
- severing said span of said wire rope of said drawworks for said oil field drilling rig with a wire rope cutting assembly of said brake, shear and management assembly.
A method of severing a wire rope of a drawworks of an oil field drilling rig, said method comprising the steps of:
- managing said wire rope with a brake, shear and management assembly;
- said brake, shear and management assembly comprising a wire rope management assembly and a wire rope cutting assembly;
- said brake, shear and management assembly secured to said drawworks of said oil field drilling rig;
- selectively retaining said wire rope of said drawworks of said oil field drilling rig with said wire rope management assembly;
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- selectively severing said wire rope of said drawworks of said oil field drilling rig with said wire rope cutting assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.