PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["156", "073100"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a tool  10  of the invention for welding a PET gland  12  onto a PET bottle  14  for the fitment of a dispensing tap. The tool  10  is generically indicated as ultrasonic horn or sonotrode in the figure. The ultrasonic horn has a tapered serrated portion  16  which has a lead-in taper section  18  to initiate the melt of the plastics to be welded, and a knife section  20  (when required), being the cutting zone thereof, which in use cuts open a sealed spigot  22  so that the horn can enter into the spigot  24  for the welding operation.

Claim (Index 1):
A tapered ultrasonic welding tool or horn designed to weld a plastics material gland onto a spigot of a plastics material to which said gland can be welded, said tool including a serrated tapered portion which, in use, is urged into the spigot opening from the outside and melts the plastic materials of the spigot and the gland at the point of contact between the spigot, the gland, and the welding tool, so that the gland is welded to the outside of the spigot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5493
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14893667', '13857604', '10398939', '14893324', '12593348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8895194676141364
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4650708522534201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8470746060780647
- Mean Citation Score: 115.6252838
- Max Citation Score: 125.106964
- Similarity Product: 90.76604786438396

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