Abstract: The invention is a syringe carrying case which securely stabilizes the syringe while permitting the plunger to be withdrawn to specific pre-selected lengths to accommodate various size doses. The case holds a syringe with needle and dose therein. The case is attractively packaged to give the appearance of a pen which can be stuck in a pocket.

Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention is a cleaning system to be employed in the clarifier. A track is mounted to opposing sides of the clarifier. A scraping blade spans the two rails. A mechanism connects the two ends of the blade to the tracks and provides for stepwise movement of the blade bidirectionally within the clarifier. Movement of the blade over slots found in the clarifier bottom results in displacement of sludge from the clarifier back into the orbital ditch. The moving mechanisms are preferably located adjacent the clarifier floor. The scraping blade moves in stepwise motion over each of the slots, displacing sludge through such slots. At the same time a suction header, with inlets on both sides of the blade, allows some of the sludge to be suctioned from the bottom of the clarifier and removed from the orbital ditch system.

Abstract: The invention features a perforating gun, with an external auger, which can be mounted to a tubing string. The auger facilitates removal of the gun after the sand is placed in the perforations. The perforating gun with external auger promotes the clean-up of the debris from the perforations after the gun is shot and facilitates the movement of the gun out of the sand. The sand can be spotted near the perforations without exposure to the formation of any kill fluids. The perforating gun with external auger need not be moved prior to admission of sand into the perforations. The assembly can be used so that preferred fluids, such as stimulating fluids, can be used to circulate the sand until the sand has been spotted adjacent the formation, whereupon the stimulating fluid is squeezed into the formation, leaving the sand in the perforations. The amount of fluid displaced into the formation is minimized and the selection of fluid helps to stimulate the subsequent flow during production.

Abstract: The invention is a golf swing training apparatus comprised of a frame supporting a rail on which is mounted a carriage which moves on the rail. The carriage has a mechanism to engage the golf club so that the golfer can stand within the frame and execute a complete swing while the club moves with the carriage to guide the swing throughout its execution. The track includes a channel having radially inner and outer opposed portions each curved inwardly to the other and separated by an intermediate flat portion. The carriage mounts at least three longitudinally spaced wheels, each on an axial mount adapted for normal disposition to the flat portion, one wheel being radially spaced from at least two other wheels, and the wheels are positioned to roll longitudinally within the curved portions of the channel. The wheels secure the carriage in the channel for guided movement along the circular track.

Abstract: A well perforating gun provides a full bore passage for fluids and tools through the discharged gun without increasing the normal exterior diameter of the gun. The full bore passage is disposed eccentrically within a tubular housing and the perforating guns are mounted in a longitudinally spaced array on one or more elongated strips disposed adjacent elongated slots in the wall of the housing opposite the eccentric portion of the full bore fluid passage.

Abstract: The invention is a disposable, positive-displacement piston pump, having a polycarbonate body, a piston, an inlet valve, and an outlet valve. The outlet valve is connected to an exit chamber, which is separated from the exit valve by an elastomeric membrane. The elastomeric membrane encloses an accumulation chamber which is filled with a fluid such as air under atmospheric pressure. Pulsations in outlet pressure caused by stroking of the piston are dampened by the flexing action of the elastomeric membrane, compressing the fluid within the accumulator chamber. The throw out of the pump is pressure-dampened and is of sufficient pressure to flow through very low-profile angioplasty catheters having perfusion lumens extending therethrough. The combination of the pump with a very low-profile balloon angioplasty catheter allows access of the catheter to a constricted passage with the ability to pump a sufficient volume of blood through such a low-profile catheter during balloon inflations.

Abstract: A sequence valve for directing fluid pressure is provided, having a fluid pressure inlet, a first actuator outlet with associated vent port, and a second actuator outlet with an associated vent port. A spool is movably mounted within the body for selective direction of fluid pressure applied to the inlet to either of the actuator outlets or selectively to bleed pressure applied to either of the actuator outlets through respective vent portions in a predetermined sequence.

Abstract: Complex molecules of phosphonic acid ligands and transition metal ions are formed to be surprisingly good at inhibiting and even preventing scale in aqueous solutions, crude oils, aqueous production fluids, heat exchange media, etc. Ethylenediaminetetra(methylenephosphonic) acid (ENTMP) complexed with copper (II) is a particularly effective scale inhibitor over wide pH and temperature ranges. Other useful metal complex molecules include various alkyleneamino(alkylphosphonic) acids, or salts thereof, complexed with transition metals such as nickel (II), cobalt (II) and zinc (II), in addition to copper (II). The active complexes may be termed phosphonate metal complexes, or in some forms, phosphonic acid metal complexes.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for cementing a liner string in a well bore. The apparatus comprises an operating string having a smaller diameter than the internal diameter of the liner string which is insertable therein. The operating string is connected within the internal diameter of the liner string and may be operated by rotation of the operating string to release the string from the liner. A plug is connected to the lower end of the operating string and has a top plug which is releasably supported from the plug carrying body together with a longitudinally spaced bottom plug which is releasably supported from the top plug. The top plug is pressure releasable relative to the plug carrying body, as is the bottom plug to the top plug, and a retainer on the bottom plug, respectively. A shift is provided for locking the top plug to the plug carrying body until the bottom plug is released by application of pressure.

Abstract: Arylalkylamines (as a sulfate salt) e.g. tyramine sulfate, are prepared by reacting substituted or unsubstituted arylalkylketones with a lower alkylnitrite in the presence of hydrogen chloride in a dipolar aprotic solvent, then combining the reaction mixture with water and extracting it with a lower alkyl ester or alcohol to recover an aryl-.alpha.-oximinoalkylketone extract. The extract, combined with a supported hydrogenation catalyst (e.g. palladium on carbon) in a nonaqueous reaction medium of a major proportion of a mildly protic carboxylic acid (e.g. acetic acid) and a minor proportion of a strong inorganic acid (e.g. sulfuric acid), which is effective in the presence of the catalyst for secondary alcohol dehydration and active as an absorbant for water produced in the dehydration reaction, is hydrogenated to produce the arylalkylamine sulfate sale.

Abstract: An insulation jacket and method are provided for a tubing carried perforating gun for a subterranean well. A tubular housing is secured at one end to a tubular conduit with a firing head disposed interiorly within the housing. A perforating gun is activated by the firing head and carried by the housing. A tubular heat shield is concentrically disposed around the exterior of the housing and is sealingly secured relative to an end of the housing. An annular area is defined between the interior of the heat shield and the exterior of the housing with a fluid passageway extending from the interior of the housing through the annular area and communicating with the exterior of the heat shield. The heat shield configuration may also be utilized to provide an annular wash area for washing particulate matter away from the perforating gun as it is being introduced into the well.

Abstract: A well production apparatus includes a tubular production conduit which extends from the top of the well to a production zone interior of casing. An electric submersible pump has a production fluid flow passageway which communicates between the exterior of the conduit and the interior of the casing. A packer is in communication with the production conduit below the pump and is movable into sealing engagement with the casing to isolate the production zone. A thermal absorber is carried on the production conduit between upper and lower production conduit members whereby subsequent to positioning of the packer assembly into set position, thermal expansion or contraction of the conduit above the set packer is absorbed by the thermal absorber without transmission of thermal expansion or contraction of the conduit to the pump.

Abstract: An acid soluble mercury metal salt intensifier is provided to inhibit corrosion in conjunction with a corrosion inhibitor when a steel surface is present in an acid environment. The mercury metal salt may be a mercuric halide, such as mercuric chloride or may be a mercuric acetate, mercuric oxide, mercuric nitrate or mixtures of all of these. An acid soluble copper metal salt, such as cuprous halide, for example, cuprous chloride, copper acetate, cupric formate, cuprous nitrate and mixtures thereof, may also be present as a co-intensifier. In one application, the mercuric salt intensifier is used in a fluid for treatment of a subterranean well for the acid enhancement of production within the well by introduction of the fluid through a high alloy steel conduit positioned within the well. Methods of inhibiting acidic corrosion when steel surfaces are in an acid environment, particularly steel surfaces containing chrome, and methods of treating a subterranean well for enhanced production are also presented.