PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["280", "438100"]

Abstract:
A fifth wheel hitch is adapted to affix to a vehicle having a vehicle-mounted ball that protrudes from towing vehicle surface. The hitch has a frame with a sleeve portion that is fixed with respect to the frame and a receiver is telescopingly received inside the sleeve portion. The receiver is selectively affixed to the frame with a pin that extends through the receiver and sleeve portion. A ball cage affixes to the vehicle-mounted ball using pins that extend through vertical walls in the cage. The cage includes a threaded fastener that extends outwardly. The frame has an elongate aperture that receives the threaded fastener to secure the ball cage with a nut into a cage pocket. An optional lock overlays the nut with a nut locking aperture that prevents the nut from rotating.

Claim (Index 6):
A single point hitch comprising:\n a gooseneck ball cage having a ball aperture for receiving a gooseneck ball, said ball cage having a transverse aperture adapted to receive a pin to constrain a portion of said gooseneck ball within said ball cage, said ball cage having a ball axis extending perpendicularly through said ball aperture and said ball axis centrally located within said ball aperture, said ball aperture and said ball axis nearer a first end of said ball cage than a second end of said ball cage; a frame having a sleeve portion fixed with respect to said frame and having transverse holes extending therethrough, said sleeve portion having a centrally located sleeve axis extending therethrough; said frame having a cage pocket affixed thereto, said cage pocket adapted to receive said ball cage in a first orientation defined by said ball axis being relatively close to said sleeve axis and a second orientation defined by said ball axis being relatively far from said sleeve axis, a threaded fastener for drawing said ball cage into said cage pocket; and a receiver including a hitch receiving pocket, said receiver being telescopingly received within said sleeve portion, said receiver telescopically moveable with respect to said sleeve portion along said sleeve axis, said receiver having an upper end facing away from said frame, a lower end and including a support wall within said receiver located intermediate to said upper and lower ends, said receiver being selectively lockable with respect to said sleeve portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16923
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15205508', '12148112', '14616052', '12580797', '15851859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8438796908413934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5265903652041006
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.812150758277664
- Mean Citation Score: 306.325844
- Max Citation Score: 359.06274
- Similarity Product: 265.3253932512188

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