# US 4,380,264 A · Survey tool string > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 4,380,264 A - Document ID: US4380264A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 06/219,922 - Filed: 1980-12-24 - Granted: 1983-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 1980-12-24 - Assignees: Drilling Development, Inc. - Inventors: William C. Lyons; Scot L. Scurlock - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4380264A ## CPC - E21B 17/1078: {Stabilisers or centralisers for casing, tubing or drill pipes (E21B17/1007 - E21B17/1064 take precedence)} - E21B 21/00: Methods or apparatus for flushing boreholes, e.g. by use of exhaust air from motor (freeing objects stuck in boreholes by flushing E21B31/03) - E21B 23/00: Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing or removing tools, packers or the like in boreholes or wells (setting of casings, screens or liners E21B43/10) - E21B 47/00: Survey of boreholes or wells (monitoring pressure or flow of drilling fluid E21B21/08) - E21B 47/022: of the borehole, e.g. using geomagnetism - E21B: EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS ## Abstract A tool for housing a magnetic directional survey instrument for inserting the instrument into a deviated well bore. Means are provided on the tool for circulating well fluids past the tool while it is in the well bore. There is provided means, connectable on the tool, for centering the tool in the vertical, as well as the deviated portion of a well bore. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A tool for holding a magnetic directional survey instrument comprising: a tubular, non-magnetic housing having a central bore for holding a major portion of said survey instrument; closure means for enclosing one end of said tubular housing, said closure means having sealing means coacting with said tubular housing to prevent fluids from entering said tubular housing and having a recess in longitudinal alignment with said bore of said housing and adapted to hold a portion of said survey instrument; connector means connected to the other end of said tubular housing for joining said tubular housing to means for lowering said tool into a short radius curve of a deviated well; said connector means having a passageway for conducting fluids from the interior of said tool lowering means to the exterior of said tubular housing and having a recess in longitudinal alignment with said bore of said housing and adapted to hold a portion of said survey instrument, and said connector means and said tubular housing having means to prevent fluids from entering said tubular housing. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The tool of claim 1, including means for centering said tool within a well bore, whereby the longitudinal axis of said tubular housing would be maintained essentially parallel to the walls of a well bore when said tool is inserted in said well bore. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The tool of claim 2, wherein said centering means comprises a tubular sleeve mounted on said tubular housing, said tubular sleeve having a plurality of wear members attached thereto and extending radially therefrom, said radially extending wear members defining the circumference of the centering means. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The tool of claim 3, wherein the circumference of the centering means is essentially equal to the maximum circumference of the connector means. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The tool of claim 1, wherein said connector means is non-magnetic. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1, 5) The tool of claims 1 or 5, wherein said closure means is brass. ### Claim 7 A tool for holding a magnetic directional survey instrument comprising: a tubular, non-magnetic housing for holding at least a portion of said survey instrument; closure means for enclosing one end of said tubular housing, said closure means having sealing means coacting with said tubular housing to prevent fluids from entering said tubular housing; connector means connected to the other end of said tubular housing for joining said tubular housing to means for lowering said tool into a short radius curve of a deviated well, said connector means having a passageway for conducting fluids from the interior of said tool lowering means to the exterior of said tubular housing, said connector means and said tubular housing having means to prevent fluids from entering said tubular housing, a tubular, non-magnetic sleeve adapted to be received on a portion of said tubular housing; and means for securing said tubular sleeve to said tubular housing. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The tool of claim 7, wherein said tubular non-magnetic sleeve has connected thereto, around its outside surface a plurality of spaced apart wear members which extend radially from the outside surface of said tubular sleeve, the wear member defining the circumference of said tubular sleeve. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7, 8) The tool of claims 7 or 8, wherein the circumference of the tubular sleeve is essentially equal to the maximum circumference of said connector means. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The tool of claim 9, wherein the distance between said tubular sleeve and said connector means can be varied by varying the point of connection of said tubular sleeve on said tubular housing. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The tool of claim 7, wherein said closure means is adapted to receive and house a portion of said survey tool. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7, 11) The tool of claims 7 or 11, wherein said connector means is adapted to receive and house a portion of said survey tool. ### Claim 13 (depends on 7) The tool of claim 7, wherein said means to prevent fluids from entering said tubular housing is an O-ring. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The tool of claim 13, wherein said means to prevent fluids from entering said tubular housing consists of at least two juxtaposed O-ring seals.