PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["108", "051110"]

Abstract:
A pallet for supportively carrying and transporting goods as a unit load in a stable efficient manner is disclosed. The pallet can be configured as a rigid or easily disassemblable compact collapsed structure. Interlocking frame members form an upper planar surface with one or more gap or void areas. A sheet of flexible material operatively secured to the frame is tautly stretched to overlie the void areas and forms a structural part of the upper planar surface to counteract downward load forces applied to the fabric over the pallet surface void areas. The sheet material preferably comprises woven polypropylene material.

Claim (Index 1):
A pallet configured to rest upon a lower support surface and to support a load having a maximum load weight, comprising:\n (a) a frame having a plurality of interconnected first and second frame members oriented generally perpendicularly to one another with at least some of said first and said second frame members having coplanar upper surfaces cooperatively defining a planar upper deck surface with at least one void or gap region in said planar deck surface; (b) a continuous sheet of material overlying said deck surface, secured to and tautly stretched between at least two of said frame members and overlying said at least one void or gap region in said plane, to provide upward support forces to counteract downward forces applied to said sheet material by a load placed on and carried by said upper deck surface and engaging said sheet material above said at least one void or gap region; wherein the strength of said sheet upward support forces is at least equal to or greater than downward load forces that could be produced by said load and having said maximum load weight; and (c) spaced leg members operatively connected to said frame so as to support said upper deck surface in spaced relationship above said lower support surface, to enable pallet lifting arms to be inserted between said leg members and under said upper deck to lift said pallet above said lower support surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54412
- Patent Class: 108.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10729616', '14239232', '13661949', '12802810', '11075785']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7719768049481388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4981530520956213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.744594429662887
- Mean Citation Score: 223.51895
- Max Citation Score: 247.26787
- Similarity Product: 196.7973700506317

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

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