PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["156", "060000"]

Abstract:
A machine for welding an overlapped region of two adjacent strips of material and a method of using the same. The machine includes a housing with front and rear ends, a wheel train engaged with the housing for moving the housing across the material; a nozzle on the housing having a welding head at a free end; the nozzle being positionable at least partially beneath the housing's bottom wall for welding the overlapped region; front and rear pressure rollers engaged with the housing, where the front roller is positioned forwardly of the welding head and the rear roller is positioned rearwardly of the welding head; wherein the rear pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a forward direction; and the front pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a reverse direction.

Claim (Index 19):
The nozzle as defined in  claim 18 , wherein the respective fastener is aligned through the slot in adjacent mounting plates, thereby securing the nozzle to the nozzle mounting bracket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13113316', '12577604', '12577558', '11324886', '11252867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8826632291977279
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5112578223192088
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.845522688509876
- Mean Citation Score: 189.359962
- Max Citation Score: 216.81754
- Similarity Product: 132.91744352671506

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

Dataset: test