Patents by Inventor Richard C. Babb

Richard C. Babb 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).

  • Patent number: 4621403
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for inserting coiled tubing into a drill string in an oil well. The apparatus has a coiled tubing injector head, pressure control equipment, and a quick connect coupling. The coupling will connect to a tool joint on the drill string or to a saver sub threaded onto the drill string. The method includes lowering the apparatus until the quick connect coupling latches onto the tool joint or saver sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Hughes Tool Company
    Inventors: Richard C. Babb, Tommy K. Griffin
  • Patent number: 4317384
    Abstract: A manual override drive apparatus for use with normally powered driving assemblies, such as valve actuators, is disclosed which has a body having an axial bore therethrough, a shaft movable axially but not rotatably extending through the bore and having screw threads thereon, a cage in the body rotatably disposed about the shaft having elongate circumferentially arranged pockets and restrained against axial movement by thrust bearings, a plurality of elongated gear segments movably disposed in the pockets having screw threads which mate with the threads on the shaft, cam means operable to move the gear segments toward and away from the shaft for engagement and disengagement of the screw threads on the shaft and the gear segments, and means operable to rotate the cage and thus the gear segments thereby driving the shaft axially when the gear segments are in threaded engagement with the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1982
    Assignee: Tapco International, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas G. Calvin, Richard C. Babb