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 13):
The spreader controller of  claim 11 , wherein the control knob is indexed so as to indicate a position of the control knob relative to a selection indicator disposed on the front face.

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): 0.7708341493543758
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4773355244799199
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7414842868669302
- Mean Citation Score: 152.377258
- Max Citation Score: 154.2928
- Similarity Product: 101.98103169021608

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