PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882569
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["211", "059400"]

Abstract:
A keeper for orderly storage and/or conveyance of clothing hangers includes an elongate hanger collection and retention chute dependently supported within a chute support recess, which recess is provided in connection with a generally elongate rigid body. The chute comprises an open end to a central slot, running substantially the length of the chute, and whereby the chute receives the corner portion of a number of clothing hangers. The rigid body has a guide directing the corner portion of a hanger through an open throat of the body and into the open end of the collection and retention chute. Protuberances, provided in generally aligned pairs extending from the interior side walls of the chute, jut inward toward the central slot to demark, and serve as stops between, provided adjacent hanger support slots.

Claim (Index 1):
A keeper for orderly storage and conveyance of clothing hangers, said keeper comprising:\n a substantially rigid, elongate body, said rigid body having a first fastener at a first end of said body; a hanger collection and retention chute, said hanger collection and retention chute being dependently supported along the length of said body; and wherein said hanger collection and retention chute comprises:\n a central slot running substantially the length of said chute; \n an open end to said central slot, said open end being provided adjacent said first end of said body; \n a plurality of hanger support slots positioned along said central slot; \n a plurality of pair wise provided protuberances demarking adjacent ones of said hanger support slots, wherein at least one protuberance of each said pair of protuberances is malleable; and \n wherein each said pair of protuberances is adapted to:\n prevent, in the absence of manual force, passage of a portion of a hanger between a first one of said adjacent hanger support slots and a second one of said adjacent hanger support slots; and \n enable, under manual force applied to said portion of a hanger, passage between said pair of protuberances from said first one of said adjacent hanger support slots to said second one of said adjacent hanger support slots.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90667
- Patent Class: 211.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12113787', '10120594', '10820849', '12003521', '15063009']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7686642952654185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4511884735684864
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7369167130957253
- Mean Citation Score: 141.82943200000005
- Max Citation Score: 143.65985
- Similarity Product: 111.44847586542666

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

Dataset: test