Apparatus for releasably holding a pipe, rod or the like

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9057225
APP PUB NO 20150021946A1
SERIAL NO

14334993

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For holding a pipe, rod or the like, such as a section of a pipe string of an offshore oil drilling rig, an apparatus includes a clamping device insertable into a support body. The clamping device includes a device body with a central opening bounded by an inner circumferential surface that conically tapers at a cone angle. The device further includes clamp elements that are received in the central opening of the device body and that each have a radially outer surface sloping along the cone angle to slide along the inner circumferential surface of the device body, and a radially inner clamping surface to clamp against the coaxially arranged pipe. A holding element respectively connects each clamp element to a linear actuator stroke element that is similarly tilted at the cone angle. The linear actuator may be received in a receiver shaft of the device body.

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BLOHM + VOSS OIL TOOLS GMBH20457 HAMBURG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Stoldt, Frederik Hamburg, DE 15 61
Vierke, André Hamburg, DE 2 15

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