Oil well rope socket tool

Claim 1

A WELL TOOL RELEASABLE LOCKING SUBASSEMBLY REPEATABLY SETTABLE, WHILE LOCATED SUBSURFACE, IN EACH OF A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS COMPRISING A DETENT RETAINING MEANS AND DETENTS CARRIED THEREBY, A FIXED MEMBER AND MOVABLE MEMBER, SAID DETENT RETAINING MEANS COMPRISING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW SLEEVE WITH A CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL AXIS, A PLURALITY OF PASSAGEWAYS EACH EXTENDING FROM THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF SAID SLEEVE THROUGH THE THICKNESS OF THE WALLS OF SAID SLEEVE TO THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF SAID SLEEVE, SAID PASSAGEWAYS EACH PROVIDING A PATH THROUGH SAID WALL NORMAL TO THE CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE, SAID DETENTS EACH BEING A MOVABLE DETENT HAVING A CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION IN EACH SAID PASSAGEWAY, EACH SAID DETENT HAVING A GREATER THICKNESS THAN SAID SLEEVE WALL, SAID FIXED MEMBER HAVING AN INTERIOR WALL CLOSELY YET SLIDABLY FITING THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF THE WALL OF SAID GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW SLEEVE, MEANS IN EACH SAID PASSAGEWAY PREVENTING THE ESCAPE OF THE DETENT THEREIN FROM SAID PASSAGEWAY THROUGH THE END THEREOF DISTANT FROM SAID INTERIOR WALL OF SAID FIXED MEMBER, A RECESS IN SAID INTERIOR WALL OF SAID FIXED MEMBER ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A LARGE PORTION OF EACH SAID DETENT, THE TOTAL OF THE DEPTH OF SAID RECESS AND THE THICKNESS OF SAID WALL OF SAID GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW SLEEVE MEMBER BING AT LEAST AS GREAT AS THE THICKNESS OF EACH OF SAID DETENTS IN EACH SAID PASSAGEWAY THEREFOR, SAID MOVABLE MEMBER HAVING A CYLINDRICAL WALL WITH ITS OUTER SURFACE SLIDABLY FITTING ADJACENT TO THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE WALL OF SAID GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW SLEEVE MEMBER, AND AN ANNULAR EXTERIORLY OPEN RECESS AT AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE OUTER CYLINDRICAL SURFACE OF THE WALL OF SAID MOVABLE MEMBER, SAID WALL SURFACE EXCEPT FOR SAID RECESS BEING CYLINDRICAL, SAID RECESS BEING ADPATED TO RECEIVE APORTION OF EACH OF SAID DETENTS, THE TOTAL OF THE DEPTH OF SAID RECESS IN SAID MOVABLE MEMBER AND THE THICKNESS OF SAID WALL OF SAID GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW SLEEVE MEMBER BEING AT LEAST AS GREAT AS THE THICKNESS OF EACH OF SAID DETENTS IN EACH SAID PASSAGEWAY THEREFOR, AND WHEREIN SAID DETENT RETAINING MEANS HAS A LATERALLY PROJECTING SHOULDER WHICH EXTENDS OVER THE TOP OF SAID FIXED MEMBER AND IS URGED UPWARDLY BY A SPRING BETWEEN THE BOTTOM OF SAID DETENT RETAINING MEANS AND UPWARDLY FACING SURFACE OF SAID FIXED MEMBER TO MAINTAIN SAID PASSAGEWAYS IN SAID GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW SLEEVE OUT OF REGISTRATION WITH RESPECT TO THE INWARDLY OPEN RECESS IN THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE FIXEDMEMBER WALL AND SAID MOVABLE MEMBER COMPRISES A SLEEVE ATTACHED TO A ROPE, AND WHEREIN SAID ROPE EXTENDS UPWARDLY THEREFROM AND, IN COMBINATION THEREWITH, A WEIGHT MEMBER ENCIRCLING SAID ROPE AND WITH AN INTERNAL CAVITY OPEN AT BOTH ITS UPPER AND LOWER ENDS AND HAVING AT ITS LOWER END AN OPENING GREATER THAN THE EXTERNAL DIAMETER OF THE MOVABLE MEMBER AND SAID LOWER END OF SAID WEIGHT MEMBER BEING ENGAGABLE WITH THE UPPER END OF THE DETENT RETAINING MEANS AND OF SUFFICIENT WEIGHT TO COMPRESS THE SPRING TO BRING THE PASSAGEWAYS IN SAID DETENT RETAINING MEANS SLEEVE INTO REGISTRATION WITH THE OPENING OF THE INWARDLY OPEN RECESS IN THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE FIXED MEMBER WALL.