US Patent Issued to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS on Nov. 25 for "Fluid end with extension plate" (Oklahoma, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,488, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Fluid end with extension plate" was invented by James Black (Sperry, Okla.), Kale Woosley (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Vadim Kachkovskiy (Spring Mills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid end of a reciprocating pump that includes a housing defining multiple bores extending therein. In one embodiment, the present invention involves coupling a plate to a side of a smaller fluid end forging, thereby extending the overall length of the forging to capture the outer tie rods or stay rods that a larger forged fluid end typically captures. The plate allows a ...