Patent ID: 11859448
Assignee: WOOLSLAYER COMPANIES, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  B | IPC B  E

Claim 0:
1. A rig movement, rotation and alignment assembly, which assembly comprises:
a plurality of lifting jack assemblies, each of said lifting jack assemblies attached to a rig substructure and attached to respective bearing pads;
each of said lifting jack assemblies having a cylinder housing and an elongated rod movable axially within each said cylinder housing;
each said elongated rod engaged with a respective rod rotation drive assembly in order to rotate each said elongated rod with respect to each said cylinder housing; and
a rotation translation assembly to translate rotational movement of each said elongated rod into rotational movement of each said respective bearing pad;, wherein each said lifting jack assembly is connected to said rig substructure by respective pod brackets and each said respective pod bracket detachably connects to the substructure with a pair of hooks and a pair of eyes and wherein said eyes receive pins which pass through openings in the substructure to detachably secure each said respective pod bracket to said substructure.