PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["414", "546000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle mounted loading and unloading apparatus is provided which has a stationary mounting rack removably attachable to a roof of a vehicle and a top rack that includes a container for storing cargo, such as bales of hay. An adjustment mechanism is provided to move the top rack relative to the mounting rack from a transporting position to a loading/unloading position in which the top rack is lowered behind the vehicle to facilitate loading cargo. A movable shelf may be provided on the top rack for assisting with loading and unloading cargo. The shelf is slidable between a rear end of the top rack and a front end of the top rack for placing the cargo.

Claim (Index 1):
A loading and unloading apparatus comprising:\n a mounting rack configured to removably attach to a roof of a vehicle, and including a mounting frame defining a first plane and having a front mount portion, a rear mount portion, and a pair of opposing lateral mount portions; top rack slidably and pivotally connected to the mounting rack, and including a base frame defining a second plane and having a front wall portion, a rear wall portion and a pair of opposing lateral wall portions defining a container space for storing cargo; an adjustment mechanism adapted to slidably and pivotally move the top rack relative to the stationary mounting rack from a transporting position in which the respective first and second planes of the mounting frame and the base frame are substantially parallel, to a loading/unloading position in which the second plane of the base frame is slanted and lowered with respect to the first plane of the mounting frame; and a movable shelf unit provided on the top rack for assisting with loading and unloading cargo, the shelf unit including a shelf frame adapted to slide between a rear end of the top rack and a front end of the top rack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15082491', '15660441', '15597853', '11527455', '14013298']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8502671263037856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5706531120577603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8223057248791832
- Mean Citation Score: 300.621654
- Max Citation Score: 465.21417
- Similarity Product: 461.7694333330268

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

Dataset: test