Pump deployment system
AssigneeRoper Holdings, Inc.
InventorDonald G. Carlile
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Abstract
A pump deployment system having a frame adapted to be loaded on a trailer, a pump/engine unit mounted on the frame, and jacks secured to the frame. The jacks are adapted such that, when the frame is loaded on a trailer, the jacks can be engaged with a ground surface supporting the trailer, the jacks being operable to selectively raise the frame to allow the trailer to be removed from underneath the frame, the jacks being further operable to lower the frame toward the ground surface so that the pump/engine can be placed in a semi-permanent configuration.
Claims25
A pump deployment system, comprising:
- a pump/engine unit having an input and an output;
- a frame adapted to be loaded on a trailer, where the pump/engine unit is mounted on the frame;
- and
- jacks secured to the frame and configured to engage a ground surface and enable selective raising and lowering of the frame relative to the ground surface, allowing the frame to be loaded onto and unloaded from the trailer, wherein at least some of the jacks are movable relative to the frame in a sideways direction from a retracted position to an extended position, in which the at least some of the jacks accommodate removal of the trailer from underneath the frame without obstructing wheels of the trailer.
A pump deployment system, comprising:
- a frame;
- a pump/engine unit mounted on the frame;
- a trailer adapted to receive the frame and pump/engine unit;
- and
- jacks secured to the frame and configured to engage a ground surface and enable selective raising and lowering of the frame relative to the ground surface, allowing the frame to be loaded onto and unloaded from the trailer, wherein at least some of the jacks are movable relative to the frame in a sideways direction from a retracted position to an extended position, in which the at least some of the jacks accommodate removal of the trailer from underneath the frame without obstructing wheels of the trailer.
A pump deployment system, comprising:
- a pump/engine unit having an input and an output;
- a frame adapted to be loaded on a trailer, where the pump/engine unit is mounted on the frame;
- and
- jacks secured to the frame and configured to engage a ground surface and enable selective raising and lowering of the frame relative to the ground surface, wherein:
- the jacks are configured to completely support the frame and pump/engine unit above the ground surface independent of the trailer, to permit loading and unloading of the frame by moving the trailer in and out from underneath the supported frame;
- the jacks include a jack pair positioned on the frame so as to be forward of a set of wheels of the trailer when the frame is loaded onto the trailer;
- and
- the jack pair is slidable inward and outward relative to the frame in a sideways direction between a retracted position and an extended position, such that if the jack pair were used in the retracted position to support the frame off of the trailer, the jack pair would obstruct the wheels of the trailer upon attempted removal of the trailer in a forward direction from underneath the frame, the jack pair being movable into the extended position to accommodate removal of the trailer from underneath the frame without any such obstruction of the wheels of the trailer.
A method of deploying a pump unit from a portable trailer-mounted configuration to a semi-permanent configuration, comprising the steps of:
- providing a frame having jacks secured to the frame, wherein at least some of the jacks are movable inward and outward in a sideways direction relative to the frame between a retracted position and an extended position;
- mounting a pump/engine unit on the frame;
- placing the frame and pump/engine unit on a trailer so that the trailer supports the frame;
- engaging the jacks with a ground surface supporting the trailer;
- using the jacks to raise the frame and pump/engine unit from the trailer so that the frame is spaced from the trailer;
- removing the trailer from underneath the frame;
- and
- lowering the frame and pump/engine unit toward the ground surface to place the pump/engine unit in the semi-permanent configuration.
- wherein the at least some of the jacks are placed in the extended position prior to removing the trailer from underneath the frame in order to accommodate removal of the trailer without the at least some of the jacks obstructing wheels of the trailer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.