PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["156", "073100"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a tool  10  of the invention for welding a PET gland  12  onto a PET bottle  14  for the fitment of a dispensing tap. The tool  10  is generically indicated as ultrasonic horn or sonotrode in the figure. The ultrasonic horn has a tapered serrated portion  16  which has a lead-in taper section  18  to initiate the melt of the plastics to be welded, and a knife section  20  (when required), being the cutting zone thereof, which in use cuts open a sealed spigot  22  so that the horn can enter into the spigot  24  for the welding operation.

Claim (Index 8):
A tapered ultrasonic welding tool or horn designed to weld a plastics material gland onto a spigot of a plastics material to which said gland can be welded as claimed in  claim 6 , wherein the rate at which the tapered portion of the tool is urged into the spigot opening is adjustable and independent of the cutting tool portion rate of displacement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5493
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14893667', '13857604', '10398939', '14893324', '12593348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8877252839851334
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816046025188012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8471132158385002
- Mean Citation Score: 115.6252838
- Max Citation Score: 125.106964
- Similarity Product: 79.94644445383453

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

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