Owner Hunting Oilfield Services, Inc.

Inventors Ashby, Charles L.; Goodson, H. Dean; Staudt, John J.

Agent Pipers

Pub. Number AU-B-2001227538

PCT Pub. Number WO01/66288

Priority 09520256 07.03.00 US

Filing date 2 January 2001

Wipo publication date 17 September 2001

Acceptance publication date 2 June 2005

B23B 007/00 Automatic or semi-automatic turning-machines with a single working-spindle, e.g. controlled by cams

F16L 055/00 Devices or appurtenances for use in, or in connection with, pipes or pipe systems

F16L 035/00 Special arrangements used in connection with end fittings of hoses, e.g. safety or protecting devices

F16L 033/18 Arrangements for connecting hoses to rigid members - characterised by the use of additional sealing means

F16L 025/00 Construction or details of pipe joints not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups

F16L 019/00 Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on, or into, one of the joint parts

F16L 017/00 Joints with packing adapted to sealing by fluid pressure

F16L 015/00 Screw-threaded joints

B23P 019/00 Machines for simply fitting together or separating metal parts or objects, or metal and non-metal parts, whether or not involving some deformation

B21D 039/00 Application of procedures in order to connect objects or parts, e.g. coating with sheet metal otherwise than by plating

G01M 019/00 Testing of structures or of apparatus, not provided for in the other groups of this subclass

B23Q 017/00 Arrangements for indicating or measuring on machine tools

B23B 009/00 Automatic or semi-automatic turning-machines with a plurality of working-spindles, e.g. automatic multiple-spindle machines with spindles arranged in a drum carrier able to be moved into pre-determined positions