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BAILS [6 records]

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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
DEF

(After Frank Conibear, a Canadian expert on trapping) a kind of trap that kills its victims instantly.

CONT

One of the few modern advances in traps is found in the Conibear trap, which first appeared in 1957. This trap, deemed more humane than the common steel trap, kills an animal by squeezing it between two rigid wire bails.

OBS

Conibear: [Trade name for] Animal trap - Woodstream Corporation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
DEF

Piège à ressort dont les mâchoires en forme de X, tuent l'animal instantanément, lorsqu'elles se referment, en lui fracturant la colonne vertébrale.

OBS

Piège recommandé par la S.P.A. et considéré comme un des plus pratiques et des plus "humains".

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Petroleum Technology - Safety
CONT

A stabbing valve is kept on the work floor to put into tubing if needed, when the well begins blowing in.... The stabbing valve must...(a) be a National Association of Corrosion Engineers rated full opening valve with the proper threads to mate to the completion string thread in use;(b) the stabbing valve must have a pressure rating equal to or greater than the blow out preventer pressure rating;(c) extended bails must be used to allow string weight to be borne by the tubing, rather than the stabbing valve;(d) the stabbing valve must not be used as a working valve;(e) the stabbing valve must be stored in an area immediately accessible to the well bore.

CONT

Every drilling installation should be equipped with ancillary well control equipment consisting of ... at least two stabbing valves with appropriate cross-over subs to fit each type of connection in the drilling assembly which should be designed to be safely and quickly installed in the drilling assembly and closed to isolate and control pressure in the drill stem to allow the kelly or high pressure circulating head to be installed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Sécurité (Technologie pétrolière)
OBS

vanne d'intervention d'urgence : terme obtenu de l'Institut français du pétrole.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A device made of cylindrical steel bars to support the elevators and connect them to the rotary hook.

OBS

bails : term rarely used in the singular(bail).

Key term(s)
  • bail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A cylindrical steel bar (similar to the handle or bail of a bucket, only much larger) that supports the swivel and connects it to the hook.

OBS

Sometimes, the two cylindrical bars that support the elevators and attach them to the hook are called bails.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Closing Devices and Nozzles (Mechanical Components)
  • Rolling Stock (Railroads)
  • Mechanical Components
DEF

Magnet valve that bails off any automatic brake application existing on the locomotive when the dynamic brake is used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Obturateurs et buses (Composants mécaniques)
  • Matériel roulant (Chemins de fer)
  • Composants mécaniques
DEF

Électrovalve qui entre en action lorsque le mécanicien ou la mécanicienne commande un freinage rhéostatique pour desserrer le frein automatique sur la locomotive.

Spanish

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Record 6 1980-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Earthmoving
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Road Construction Equipment
OBS

Bail (7115).

OBS

Push-Pull scrapers are equipped with hooks on the rear and bails on the front so that they may couple together and assist each other in loading.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Terrassement
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Matériel de constr. (Voies de circulation)
OBS

Tige coudée servant à relier les deux décapeuses (scraper) dans le système dit "Push-Pull".

Spanish

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