PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16077048
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["405", "036000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a machine for putting a drain into place in ground, machine comprising: a drive tube presenting a longitudinal axis and having a bottom end; a movement device for moving the drive tube in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis; a drain extending inside the drive tube and having a bottom end extending outside the drive tube; at least one anchor; a fastener device ( 70 ) for fastening the anchor to the drain; and a cutter member for cutting the drain ( 18 ) and arranged under the fastener device.   The machine of the invention further comprises a cutter device ( 60 ) for cutting the anchor from a strip ( 54 ).

Claim (Index 35):
A method of putting a drain into place in ground, the method comprising the following steps:\n providing a rolled up strip; providing a machine for putting a drain into place in ground, the machine comprising: a drive tube presenting a longitudinal axis and having a bottom end; a movement device for moving the drive tube in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis; a drain extending inside the drive tube and having a bottom end extending outside the drive tube; at least one anchor; a fastener device for fastening the anchor to the drain; and a cutter member for cutting the drain and arranged under the fastener device; and a cutter device for cutting the anchor from a\n fastening a first anchor to the bottom end of the drain; \n driving the first anchor connected to the drain into the ground by moving the drive tube vertically into the ground so that the drain presents a first drain portion extending between the first anchor and the cutter member, and a second drain portion located out of the ground and extending the first drain portion, the first drain portion presenting a bottom part arranged in the ground and a top part arranged out of the ground; \n raising the drive tube, while leaving the first anchor and the bottom part of the first drain portion in the ground; \n un-rolling a length of the strip and cutting a second anchor from the strip by using the cutter device; \n fastening the second anchor to the second drain portion by using the fastener device; \n cutting the drain under the second anchor by using the cutter member in order to separate the first drain portion from the second drain portion; \n moving the machine; \n driving the second anchor connected to the second drain portion into the ground by moving the drive tube into the ground; and \n raising the drive tube while leaving the second anchor and a part of the second drain portion in the ground.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18966
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15758780', '15758761', '13240673', '14692187', '12187331']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7316305429285195
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4617681918198565
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7046443078176532
- Mean Citation Score: 135.793848
- Max Citation Score: 154.17973
- Similarity Product: 119.70448527723968

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