Pipe handling device
AssigneeThe Charles Machine Works, Inc.
InventorCody L. Sewell
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Abstract
A pipe handling device for use with a horizontal directional drilling machine. A pipe handling device includes a magazine for storing pipe sections and a pipe handling assembly to transport pipe sections between the magazine and the drilling machine. In one embodiment, pipe sections are stored in the magazine randomly. Pipe sections are positioned in the magazine using a vertical lift positioned beneath the magazine and having a plurality of notches. As the vertical lift is raised, the lift contacts the pipe sections in the magazine and positions the pipe sections for release through a discharge opening.
Claims6
A pipe handling device for storing and transporting pipe sections to and from a horizontal directional drilling machine, the pipe handling device comprising:
- a magazine adapted to store a plurality of pipe sections in a random manner proximate the drilling machine, the magazine having a discharge opening through which pipe sections are passed;
- a pipe handling assembly adapted to transport at least one pipe section between the magazine and the drilling machine;
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- at least one vertical lift comprising a lift frame having a plurality of pipe positioning notches;
- wherein the vertical lift positions the pipe sections in the magazine for passage through the discharge opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.