Patents by Inventor Robert C. Toups

Robert C. Toups 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: 4753577
    Abstract: A jet pump system including a pump body having a nozzle carrier, a pump housing, and a cross-over housing connected in axially alignment. A flow discharge housing extends from the cross-over housing up to near the nozzle carrier. An injector nozzle having a cylindrical injection bore is axially directed into the discharge housing. A mixing tube is carried by the discharge housing which has a mixing bore in alignment with the injector bore. A funnel shaped flow intake throat merges through a mixing throat into the mixing bore. The cross-over housing is formed with large flow windows for discharge of the pumped mixed fluid through equally large windows, formed in a tubing seating sub into the annulus between the tubing and casing of a well. The assembly is equipped to be pumped down into operating position and pumped back to the earth's surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Robert F. Wright
    Inventors: John B. Black, Stanford A. Smith, Jr., Robert C. Toups