Patents by Inventor Dale Langford
Dale Langford has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11970910Abstract: A system and apparatus for applying and removing weight from a tool string over an installed wireline, including a weight section having a longitudinal slot and a removable closure bar.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Albert Joseph Henke, Ryan Bradley, Dale Langford
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Patent number: 11929570Abstract: An electrical connector apparatus for use in a downhole tool comprising a housing, a contact screw within outer threads and inner threads, a contact plunger within the inner bore of the housing and a second cylinder protruding from the first cylinder. The contact spring is located between the contact plunger and the contact screw and pre-loads the contact plunger within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Dale Langford, Andy Lane, Rick Blain
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Patent number: 11674369Abstract: A box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies, a removable cartridge to hold a detonator and switch, and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Publication number: 20230132716Abstract: A system and apparatus for applying and removing weight from a tool string over an installed wireline, including a weight section having a longitudinal slot and a removable closure bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Albert Joseph Henke, Ryan Bradley, Dale Langford
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Publication number: 20230035484Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Bradley, Richard Bradley, Charles Craig, Rick Blain, Christopher Sokolove, Adam Dyess, William Collins, Shane Wilson, Dale Langford, Jason Mai
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Patent number: 11519247Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a tandem sub between two perforating guns where an EB fire pressure switch arms a detonator after the detonation of a first perforating gun and then a subsequent electrical signal can then detonate the second perforating gun.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Andy Lane, Faraidoon Pundole, Joel Sansing
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Publication number: 20220372849Abstract: A box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies, a removable cartridge to hold a detonator and switch, and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, WIlliam Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Publication number: 20220372850Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Patent number: 11492854Abstract: An orienting system for precisely aligning downhole tools with respect to each other, such as perforating guns, exploration tools, or other completions tools. The orienting system provides for orienting a first tool with respect to a second tool in a predetermined number of degrees of rotation, and then locking down the combination for use downhole in that configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Dale Langford, Richard Wayne Bradley
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Publication number: 20220349278Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, using a shaped charge housing containing a cluster of one or more shaped charges, with the apex ends facing each other, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator located in the middle of the cluster of the one or more shaped charges, the shaped charge housing can be one of many shaped charge housings coupled together to perforate in a plurality of single planes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai
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Patent number: 11448043Abstract: A box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies, a removable cartridge to hold a detonator and switch, and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William R. Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Patent number: 11428081Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Patent number: 11414964Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, using a shaped charge housing containing a cluster of one or more shaped charges, with the apex ends facing each other, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator located in the middle of the cluster of the one or more shaped charges, the shaped charge housing can be one of many shaped charge housings coupled together to perforate in a plurality of single planes.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai
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Patent number: 11346191Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley
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Patent number: 11299967Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Patent number: 11283207Abstract: An electrical connector apparatus for use in a downhole tool comprising a housing, a contact screw within outer threads and inner threads, a contact plunger within the inner bore of the housing and a second cylinder protruding from the first cylinder. The contact spring is located between the contact plunger and the contact screw and pre-loads the contact plunger within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Dale Langford, Andy Lane, Rick Blain
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Patent number: 11274529Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai, Charles Craig, Rick Blain
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Publication number: 20220034206Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
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Publication number: 20210372239Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai, Charles Craig, Rick Blain
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Publication number: 20210355794Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, William R. Collins, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley