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Well retrieval tool designs & patents:

History, patents, sketches of devices for retrieving stuff dropped into a well. This article describes and illustrated tools people have invented for retrieving pipes, pumps, tools, or other stuff dropped into a well.

Our focus is on water wells, drilled bore holes, steel or plastic well casing designs but these tools also pertain to the oil and gas drilling industry.

This article series describes methods & tools bought or home-made that can be used to fish materials out of a water well if you've dropped the pipe, well pump, or tools down into the well casing. The poly rope shown in our page top photo can be used to pull the well piping from this drilled well - if the rope remains intact.

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Well Retrieval Tool Designs & Patents

Well pulling clamp keeps from dropping the pipe back into the well © D Friedman at InspectApedia.com Below in this article we describe and illustrate some of the classic patented tools and designs that over the last 100 years have typified inventions used to retrieve pipes or other stuff dropped into a well. At WELL PIPE RETRIEVAL TOOLS, our home page for this article series, we explain that there are just a few basic types of pipe or junk grabbers used to pull stuff out of oil or gas or water wells:

Any tool you make or buy to fish out something dropped into a water well is going to be of one of these classes.

Well rod grabber patent, Axelstrom US 2590487 1952 - InspectApedia.com

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Well pipe retrieving device design, Burkepile patent US3902751 A 1974 - InspectApedia.com

Above, Burkpile's well pipe retrieving device.

Carver's patented well pipe retrieving device, patented 1986 US Patent 4580826 - InspectApedia 2016

Above: Carver's patented well pipe retrieval tool.

Grip to remove well pipe, Griffin patent 827011 1906 - InspectApedia.com

Above: Griffin's elegantly simple pipe gripping tool can pull a pipe fallen into a well.

Well pipe grabber, Patented by Lyons US1781335 1929 - InspectApedia.com 2016 Well pipe grabber, Patented by Lyons US1781335 1929 - InspectApedia.com 2016 Well pipe grabber, Patented by Lyons US1781335 1929 - InspectApedia.com 2016

Stuck well pipe remover, patent Robichaux 1941 - InspectApedia.com 2016 Stuck well pipe remover, patent Robichaux 1941 - InspectApedia.com 2016


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