Patent ID: 9593688
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: E21B,F04D

Claim:
1. A method of cooling a platform floor on a rig platform of a workover-drilling rig, comprising: providing an elevated platform cooling assembly having a portable assembly frame, a mast selectively positional between a folded and collapsed transport configuration and an erected and extended functional configuration on the assembly frame, a fan on the mast, a fan motor drivingly engaging the fan, a working fluid pump and supply mechanism disposed in fluid communication with the fan motor and a prime mover drivingly engaging the working fluid pump and supply mechanism; deploying the mast in the transport configuration on the assembly frame; transporting the elevated platform cooling assembly to the workover-drilling rig; positioning the elevated platform cooling assembly adjacent to the platform floor on the rig platform; raising the fan to a level of at least about 30 feet by erecting and extending the mast from the transport configuration to the functional configuration on the assembly frame; and forcing a stream of air from the fan across the platform floor on the rig platform of the workover-drilling rig by operation of the working fluid pump and supply mechanism.