PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16176476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["222", "624000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and a method are provided for a material spreader controller to meter particulate material flowing out of a discharge outlet of a hopper. The material spreader controller is comprised of a housing that receives a control cable from the discharge outlet. A control lever operatively coupled with the control cable may be pulled by a practitioner to adjust the discharge outlet from a completely closed position to an adjusted open position. A control knob enables the practitioner to selectively limit operation of the control lever. Upon turning the control knob, the practitioner may select a degree to which pulling the control lever opens the discharge outlet, thereby limiting the adjusted open position of the discharge outlet. The control knob may be indexed to indicate the position of the control knob relative to a selection indicator on the housing.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 19 , wherein coupling the control knob with the limiter further comprises forming an axially mounted spiral-shaped disc to restrict a distance over which a slider may be moved by a practitioner pulling the control lever, the slider being fixated to the control cable and coupled with the limiter whereby the practitioner may turn the control knob to select a degree to which the discharge outlet may be opened.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14493
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09965260', '11444176', '12209755', '15094835', '15591879']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7689097705636045
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875145085441218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7407702443616564
- Mean Citation Score: 152.377258
- Max Citation Score: 154.2928
- Similarity Product: 92.67984400253296

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

Dataset: test