Abstract: A positioning tool for use in placing a valve or removing a valve selectively from a mandrel in a tubing string includes an elongated cylindrical body member with an elongated plunger telescopically and nonrotatably arranged therein. Spring means abuts spaced shoulder means on the body member and elongated plunger to tend to urge the plunger and body member into abutting relationship adjacent their upper ends. A guide key is pivotally mounted on the body member by a shear pin and projects outwardly of a slot in the body member so that it may be engaged with a shoulder of an orientation sleeve mounted in the tubing string to align the positioning tool relative to a desired mandrel for placing a valve therein or removing a valve therefrom.

Abstract: An apparatus for installing and removing flow valve in a well tubing having a plurality of valve receiving side pockets offset from the main bore of the tubing by providing an orientation sleeve with a first slot for directing a guide key of a valve handling apparatus in the sleeve and a second slot intersecting the first slot to assist in removal of debris from the first slot with spaced aligned shoulders in the sleeve at the intersection of the first and second slots for actuation of the valve handling apparatus. The valve handling apparatus includes a support body including an elongated cylindrical body member supporting a movable body comprising an elongated plunger telescopically and nonrotatably arranged in the support body.