Jaw assembly for gripping pipes
OwnerDan Dagenais, Jonathan Brent Fraser +2inventors
InventorsDan Dagenais, Jonathan Brent Fraser, Leslie L. Szalacsi, Hermann Basler
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Abstract
A jaw assembly for a power tong or back-up tong is provided with a jaw die plate and die seating surface that are shaped to permit radial insertion of the die plate onto its seating surface. Both vertical and horizontally aligned splines, or spline segments are present on the seating surface. Grooves between the protrusions on the mating surface of the die plate interfit between the splines and/or spline segments to stabilize the die plate and to absorb both rotational torque forces and vertical shearing forces without disengagement from its seating surface.
Claims5
A jaw assembly for gripping tubular members comprising a jaw plate carrier portion for receiving a jaw plate, said carrier portion having a concave jaw plate seating surface, such concave seating surface comprising a plurality of parallel vertical grooves arcuately spaced along said concave seating surface, with vertical spline means formed therebetween and further comprising a plurality of generally horizontal grooves extending arcuately along said seating surface and defining therebetween generally horizontal spline means.
A jaw plate for engagement with a jaw plate seating surface on a jaw assembly of a power tong or backup tong, said jaw plate having a convex surface with an array of vertically and horizontally aligned protrusions interspersed by slots formed thereon for interengagement with spline means and grooves present on the jaw plate seating surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.