CASING PIPE VALVE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC E21B34/06 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: valve includes stopper with saddle and side channels, and bushing designed to close pressure tight side channels of stopper. The stopper is blinded at the bottom and is connected with the casing pipe. From below the casing pipe is equipped with a lower sleeve in its turn equipped below and inside with a cylinder recess where a hollow tail designed to perform upper axial movement is inserted and fixed in its lower position with shear pins. The sleeve is rigidly installed in the upper end of the hollow tail and is designed to interact in its upper position with the upper surface of the stopper saddle and to close pressure tight the side channels of the stopper from outside. A squeezing plug with a pressure tight head below and a ring recess made on the inside surface at the upper part of the stopper is used for pressure tight closing from the inside the side channels of the stopper. The ring recess of the stopper fixes pressure tight closing head of the squeezing plug in the stopper after interacting between the lower end of the tight pressing head of the squeezing plug and a stopper blind.

EFFECT: upgraded reliability of device operation and reduction of well construction period.

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