Patents by Inventor Andrej Nadan

Andrej Nadan 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).

  • Pipe rack and method for feeding and removing tubular bodies to and from a drilling installation
    Patent number: 9523249
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pipe store for supplying and discharging pipe bodies, in particular drill rods, casing pipes, and/or drill-string parts, such as drill collars, drilling motors or the like, to and from a drilling rig for creating deep wells, having a basic structure, having at least one framework which is provided in the form of a transporting and storage framework for pipe bodies and in which a plurality of pipe bodies are arranged to form a load, and having a removal apparatus for removing the pipe bodies from the framework and supplying the pipe bodies into the framework, characterized in that the basic structure has at least two accommodating portions for accommodating the framework in an essentially horizontal arrangement, in that, following insertion into the accommodating portion, the framework is fastened in a rotatable manner therein, and can be transferred from a horizontal orientation into a vertical orientation by means of a lifting element, in that each of the pipe bodies can be individ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: HERRENKNECHT VERTICAL GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Binder, Andrej Nadan
  • Pipe Rack and Method for Feeding and Removing Tubular Bodies To and From a Drilling Installation
    Publication number: 20150167407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pipe store for supplying and discharging pipe bodies, in particular drill rods, casing pipes, and/or drill-string parts, such as drill collars, drilling motors or the like, to and from a drilling rig for creating deep wells, having a basic structure, having at least one framework which is provided in the form of a transporting and storage framework for pipe bodies and in which a plurality of pipe bodies are arranged to form a load, and having a removal apparatus for removing the pipe bodies from the framework and supplying the pipe bodies into the framework, characterized in that the basic structure has at least two accommodating portions for accommodating the framework in an essentially horizontal arrangement, in that, following insertion into the accommodating portion, the framework is fastened in a rotatable manner therein, and can be transferred from a horizontal orientation into a vertical orientation by means of a lifting element, in that each of the pipe bodies can be individ
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Jürgen Binder, Andrej Nadan