Patents by Inventor B. Michael Borden

B. Michael Borden 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).

  • Publication number: 20110079960
    Abstract: A pressure responsive seal ring assembly includes a first and second arcuate-shaped ring segment configured for non-interlocking assembly onto a plunger body. A tab extends beyond a first end of each ring segment and is received by a recessed portion in the first end of the opposing ring segment. The tabs and recessed portions provide a gap in the outer peripheral surface of the assembled ring. A second tab extends beyond a second end of the second ring segment and is received by a recessed portion in the second end of the first ring segment. Pads provide an inter-space effective for allowing fluid flow between the interior peripheral surface and the plunger body. The ring segments expand radially outward with an increase in pressure to provide a seal and retract radially inward with a decrease in pressure. The ring segments, however, remain connected and resist fluid flow therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: B. Michael Borden, Milton F. Whitmarsh
  • Patent number: 5769161
    Abstract: An improved polished rod for use in pumping a well has the characteristics of reducing inventory and warehouse space requirements. The polished rod is in the form of an elongated high strength cylindrical metal rod of uniform external diameter and adaptable for reciprocation in an oil well stuffing box, the exterior surface being adaptable to receive a clamp thereon by which the polished rod is reciprocated, and the polished rod having male threaded end portions at opposed first and second ends, either of which may be employed for threadable attachment to a female threaded upper end of a string of sucker rods suspended in a well. The first end portion having a thread of a first size for attachment to a sucker rod string having a female thread of mating size and the second end having a thread of a different, second size for attachment to a sucker rod string having a female thread of different, mating size whereby the polished rod may be employed for use with two different sizes of sucker rod strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Inventor: B. Michael Borden
  • Patent number: 5549156
    Abstract: A safety shock absorber and wiper for use in an oil well pumping unit and attached to the top of a stuffing box. The shock absorber and wiper is constructed of a high density elastomeric material which is designed to absorb the shock created in the event a polished rod breaks or slips out of the polished rod clamp and the polished rod liner head falls and impacts the top of the stuffing box. A series of circular lip seals are formed on the inside of a passage which receives the polished rod liner. The lip seals make contact with and wipe the polished rod liner. A rigid ring is encased near the bottom of the device to provide a rigid portion so that the device can be secured to the stuffing box in such a manner as to compress a seal and prevent leaks around the mating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Inventor: B. Michael Borden
  • Patent number: 5346004
    Abstract: An environmentally secure polished rod liner head is provided for use on a polished rod employed in an oil well pumping system for vertically reciprocating a string of sucker rods, the polished rod extends through a stuffing box, the polished rod liner head having a body with a passageway therethrough receiving the polished rod, a polished rod liner removably secured to the lower end of the body and encompassing the polished rod, bolts extending laterally through the upper end of the body to secure the body to a polished rod so that the polished rod liner is reciprocated with the polished rod and a closure member within the body passageway above the polished rod liner biased to close in the event the polished rod should be unexpectedly removed from the body to thereby prevent hydrocarbons from being discharged through the polished rod liner and into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: B. Michael Borden
    Inventors: B. Michael Borden, Brian C. Borden, Ricky D. Page