PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["182", "036000"]

Abstract:
An improved safety system in accordance with the disclosed and claimed concept connects directly with the rail and advantageously provides both a fall resistance apparatus as well as a fall protection apparatus. The fall resistance apparatus provides a support that is movably situated on the rail and that can be manually grasped by the worker during the maintenance operation and which provides physical support in all directions to the worker. The fall resistance apparatus thus resists the likelihood that a fall will occur. In the unlikely event of a fall, the fall protection apparatus connects the worker directly to the rail and supports the worker from the rail at a location spaced above the floor, thus protecting the worker from injury in the event of a fall.

Claim (Index 1):
A safety system usable by a worker during an inspection operation of a rail that is elongated, the rail having a base and further having a web that is situated atop the base, the safety system comprising:\n a fall resistance apparatus comprising a first trolley that is structured to be situated on the rail and a support that is situated on the first trolley, the support being elongated and being structured to extend in a generally upward direction from the first trolley; a fall protection apparatus comprising a second trolley that is structured to be situated on the rail and an umbilical that is connected with the second trolley, the umbilical being elongated and structured to be affixed to the worker at an end of the umbilical opposite the second trolley; and the first and second trolleys each comprising a frame having a number of engagement structures and a number of hooks, the frame being structured to be situated on the rail with at least some of the engagement structures of the number of engagement structures being engaged with an upper surface of the web and with the number of hooks being spaced below a lower surface of the web opposite the upper surface when the frame is free of lateral loading, at least a first hook of the number of hooks being structured to engage the lower surface and resist movement of the frame with respect to the rail when the frame is subjected to lateral loading and at least a first engagement structure of the number of engagement structures is at least partially disengaged from the upper surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01515
- Patent Class: 182.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11460673', '15896471', '12500897', '14639284', '13686713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7028440938236226
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4749879008573446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6800584745269947
- Mean Citation Score: 180.44388
- Max Citation Score: 196.86658
- Similarity Product: 152.21304573487518

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

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