Patent ID: 9512689
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: E21B

Claim Text:
1. In combination, an expansible plug, a setting tool and an adapter connecting the setting tool and expansible plug, the expansible plug comprising a slips/seal section expansible from a running in configuration into an expanded configuration to seal on an interior of a pipe string, the slips/seal section being configured to expand upon an application of a setting force by the setting tool; the setting tool comprising a first outer sleeve having therein a force creator and an output; and the adapter comprising a second outer sleeve threadably coupled to the first outer sleeve and a force transmitter, the force transmitter being inside the second outer sleeve and in force transmitting relation between the setting tool output and the plug, the second outer sleeve comprising a tubular body abutting the plug in the expanded position and having protuberances thereon centering the adapter in the pipe string, the protuberances being fixed to and immovable relative to the second outer sleeve, the second outer sleeve being configured to push down on the plug during tensioning of the force transmitter by the setting tool output.