PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "184000"]

Abstract:
A pipe pulling technique where an adaptor is attached to the end of the pipe prior to the pipe being pulled underground, for example through a drilled hole. Attaching the adaptor to the pipe end prior to the pipe being pulled underground is faster and reduces danger to workers compared to the conventional process of attaching the adaptor to the end of the pipe after the pipe has been pulled underground.

Claim (Index 18):
A pull head that is cooperable with an adaptor attached to a pipe to pull the pipe underground from a first side to a second side, the pull head comprising:\n first and second shell pieces that are connected to one another by two hinges that are spaced from one another, the first and second shell pieces are moveable between an open position at which the first and second shell pieces remain connected to one another and a closed position to surround the adaptor; the first and second shell pieces include an interior surface that define a shoulder when the first shell piece and the second shell piece are in the closed position, the shoulder is positioned on the interior surface to be located behind a flange on the adaptor when the first shell piece and the second shell pieces are in the closed position; each of the first shell piece and the second shell piece includes a pull head cap piece that is integrally formed therewith that together define a pull eye when in the closed position that is connectable to a pull line that applies a pulling force to the pull head, each of the pull head cap pieces includes an opening formed therethrough, where the openings in the pull head cap pieces align with one another when the first shell piece and the second shell piece are in the closed position; the pull head cap pieces project from an end of the first shell piece and an end of the second shell piece, respectively, in a direction away from the shoulder; the first and second shell pieces have a length whereby ends of the first and second shell pieces opposite the pull head cap pieces do not overlap the pipe when the first and second shell pieces are in the closed position surrounding the adaptor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15010194', '15493493', '15693006', '11879345', '15348343']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7486561789479365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5252478897705157
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7263153500301944
- Mean Citation Score: 227.466604
- Max Citation Score: 350.75705
- Similarity Product: 299.3883514403016

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test