# US 5,343,966 A · Adjustable bent housing

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- Number: US 5,343,966 A
- Document ID: US5343966A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 07/898,003
- Filed: 1992-06-16
- Granted: 1994-09-06
- Earliest claimed: 1992-06-16
- Assignees: Vector Oil Tool Ltd.
- Inventors: Kenneth H. Wenzel; Dean Foote
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5343966A

## CPC

- E21B 7/067: {with means for locking sections of a pipe or of a guide for a shaft in angular relation, e.g. adjustable bent sub}
- E21B: EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS

## Abstract

An adjustable bent housing consisting of three tubular members arranged in end to end relation. Each of the tubular members has an interior bore. A first tubular member has a first axis. A second tubular member has a second axis. A central tubular member is centrally disposed between the first tubular member and the second tubular member and has a third axis. An internal tubular member extends into and engages the interior bores of the three tubular members thereby maintaining the tubular members in end to end relation.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An adjustable bent housing comprising:
a. three tubular members arranged in end to end relation, each of the tubular members having an interior bore, the tubular members comprising;
i. a first tubular member having a first axis,
ii. a second tubular member having a second axis,
iii. a central tubular member centrally disposed between the first tubular member and the second tubular member and having a third axis, the first axis and the second axis being offset from the third axis such that adjustment is effected by rotating at least one of the first tubular member and the second tubular member in order to alter the positioning of the first axis or the second axis relative to the third axis,
b. an internal tubular member extending into and engaging the interior bores of the three tubular members thereby maintaining the tubular members in end to end relation with the axes in a predetermined relative position;
c. the internal tubular member having an external surface, a first end and a second end, a spline extending radially outwardly from the external surface intermediate the first end and the second end and threads on the external surface adjacent the first end and the second end, the threads at one of the first end and the second end being offset;
d. the first tubular member having a first end face and an interior bore, the interior bore having interior threads adjacent the first end face such that the first tubular member is adapted to threadedly engage the first end of the internal tubular member;
e. the second tubular member having a second end face and an interior bore, the interior bore having interior threads adjacent the second end face such that the second tubular member is adapted to threadedly engage the second end of the internal tubular member;
f. the central tubular member having an interior bore, a first end and a second end, the central tubular member telescopically receiving and being axially moveable between the first end and the second end of the internal tubular member, the interior bore having a spline extending radially inwardly, such that the spline mates with the spline on the exterior surface of the internal tubular member to non-rotatably couple the internal tubular member with the central tubular member, at least one of the ends of the central tubular member having a mating clutch engagement with at least one of the first end of the first tubular member and the second end of the second tubular member.