Pipe coil deployment drum with independent paddle movement systems and methods

US11186463B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC · US

Inventors

• Timothy John Franklin-Hensler · Houston, US
• Jonathan Guerrero · Houston, US
• Matthew Allen Hegler · Houston, US
• John Paul Leger · Baytown, US
• Peter A. Parker · Beech Creek, US
• Kraig A. Tabor · Houston, US
• Jagtar Thethy · Cypress, US
• Alexander Lee Winn · Spring, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 5, 2021
• Grant date: Nov 30, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/33
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe deployment system that includes pipe deployment equipment, which facilitates deploying a pipe segment from a pipe coil, and a pipe drum, which includes a drum body around which the pipe coil is to be disposed. The pipe drum is to be disposed on the pipe deployment equipment and the drum body includes a drum core as well as a lower paddle assembly and an upper paddle assembly, which are slidably secured to the drum core. The pipe deployment system maintains the paddle assemblies in a retracted state to enable the drum body to be inserted into the pipe coil, extends the lower paddle assembly to a more extended state to facilitate raising the drum core, and retracts the lower paddle assembly to a less extended state and extends the upper paddle assembly to the less extended state to facilitate lifting the pipe coil.