Ray Stanley Jones

US Patent:

40764583, Feb 28, 1978

Filed:

May 7, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/575445

Inventors:

Ray L. Jones - Costa Mesa CA

Assignee:

Whittaker Corporation - Burbank CA

International Classification:

F04B 4908
F04B 4900

US Classification:

417 46

Abstract:

An automatic pump speed controller for controlling and maintaining the strokes per minute of a down-hole oil well pump and providing signals on the surface indicating the actual strokes per minute of the pump. The automatic pump speed controller comprises a means for measuring the strokes per minute of the pump, and a means for adjusting the pump to correspond to a preselected stroke per minute value. The automatic pump speed controller also provides for a visual read out of the actual strokes per minute of the pump which enables an observer to obtain this information. In the present invention, pressure pulses from the pump are transmitted to the invented automatic pump controller on the surface and are monitored. If the pulses indicate that the pump is operating at a rate different than the preselected rate, the controller is adapted to automatically readjust the pump to conform to the preselected rate. Because the invented controller is ably to quickly and efficiency control the pump rate, the efficiency of the oil well is greatly increased.

US Patent:

39657396, Jun 29, 1976

Filed:

May 13, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/577019

Inventors:

Ray L. Jones - Redondo Beach CA

International Classification:

G01F 100

US Classification:

73194E

Abstract:

A flow meter means for flowing columns of mixed liquids and gases comprising an elongate flow tube between upstream and downstream sections of a fluid conducting line, an elongate return duct with upstream and downstream ends communicating with the sides of the tube at longitudinally spaced fronts, a plurality of plugs slidably engaged in the tube, and shiftable through the duct, means to intermittently move plugs from the upstream end of the duct into the tube and to move plugs from the tube into the downstream end of the duct and means to count the number of plugs moved into and out of the tube and to time the rate at which the plugs move through the tube.