PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "222010"]

Abstract:
A self-unloading pipe trailer carries a rack of pipe and automatically unloads segments as it moves along a pipeline location. A single operator can maneuver the trailer and operate the unload controls. In unload mode, the operator drives along the pipeline and the trailer unloads the segments automatically. The trailer employs a power pipe rolling assembly that engages with weight-bearing tires in order to translate the distance traveled across the ground to directly power a pipe unloading system such that each foot of ground travel equates to a foot of pipe unloading. If the operator needs to change speed and/or stop, it can be done without modifying the unload mode as the dispensing process automatically responds to the change in speed. There is no complex externally powered unloading system to break-down, lose timing, or otherwise complicate matters. Pipe is simply unloaded automatically as the trailer moves down the pipeline.

Claim (Index 17):
A self-unloading pipe trailer that automatically unloads segments of pipe in a line while being moved along a location of a pipeline, the self-unloading pipe trailer comprising:\n a trailer frame extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end, and wherein the trailer frame comprises a slide which can carried by a vehicle; the trailer frame having a first side and a second side; a plurality of power pipe rolling wheel assemblies each movably attached to the trailer frame; a first power pipe rolling wheel assembly comprising a drive wheel; the first power pipe rolling wheel assembly being movable between a pipe unload position and a transport position, and when actuated into the pipe unload position, the drive wheel contacts a vehicle wheel such that as the vehicle moves over a surface, the vehicle wheel rotates, causing the drive wheel to rotate in an opposite direction thereto; a plurality of pipe cradle assemblies attached to the trailer frame, the plurality of pipe cradle assemblies each comprising a first side cradle upright and a second side cradle upright; the plurality of pipe cradle assemblies each further comprising a pipe retention assembly; the cradle uprights and pipe retention assemblies acting in concert to hold a plurality of pipe segments within the plurality of pipe cradle assemblies and to roll a first pipe segment into a discharge chamber when a demand for a pipe drop is made; when the first pipe segment enters the discharge chamber, the first pipe segment is guided into contact with the drive wheel of the first power pipe rolling wheel assembly; and as the drive wheel rotates this causes the segment of pipe contacting the drive wheel to be fed backwards off of the self-unloading pipe trailer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83908
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15275113', '15603169', '13197087', '15799967', '11297494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.832553207674317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.586406414666061
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8079385283734913
- Mean Citation Score: 250.272216
- Max Citation Score: 497.5067
- Similarity Product: 489.94372880811096

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test