US 12,281,528 B2
Quick connect setting kit and method
Raymond Christopher Shaffer, Burleson, TX (US); Jeremy Eli Castaneda, Weatherford, TX (US); and Kevin George, Cleburne, TX (US)
Assigned to GEODYNAMICS, INC., Millsap, TX (US)
Filed by GEODYNAMICS, INC., Millsap, TX (US)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/329,233.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/032,810, filed on Jun. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0372212 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. E21B 23/06 (2006.01); E21B 33/129 (2006.01); E21B 17/042 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 23/06 (2013.01) [E21B 33/1293 (2013.01); E21B 17/042 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A method for connecting a plug to a setting tool before being deployed in a well, the method comprising:
providing a plug having a mandrel, the mandrel having a ring that extends around and away from the mandrel and is configured to break at a desired force;
attaching a collet connecting part to a collet comprising inwardly biased fingers;
attaching the collet to the ring of the plug by only pushing the collet onto the plug such that the inwardly biased fingers pass over the ring;
sliding the collet connecting part, while connected to the collet and the plug, inside an external sleeve; and
rotating the plug to attach threads of the collet connecting part to an internal sleeve of the setting tool.