Apparatus for handling and holding a pipe

US9062698B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BLOHM + VOSS OIL TOOLS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Jens Baier · Hamburg, DE
• Andre Vierke · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 25, 2012
• Grant date: Jun 23, 2015
• Expiry date: May 7, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E21B19/10
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For handling and clamping a pipe, an apparatus includes plural clamping elements movably arranged in a device body configured as an annular shell. A positioning element is vertically movably arranged in the device body, and includes an obliquely sloping actuating surface that cooperates with a sliding surface of the clamping elements, so that a vertical or axial motion of the positioning element at least partially causes a horizontal or radial motion of the clamping elements. Also, a vertical or axial motion of the clamping elements is at least partially converted into a horizontal or radial motion thereof.