PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["015", "182000"]

Abstract:
A brushroll for a surface cleaning apparatus includes a brush dowel defining an axis and having opposing bristle supports and a shroud surface between the opposing bristle supports, and a plurality of bristles protruding from the bristle supports. The shroud surface includes opposing convex curved surfaces extending between the bristle supports which intersect the shroud surface at outside corners.

Claim (Index 1):
A vacuum cleaner comprising:\n a base comprising an agitator chamber and a suction nozzle opening in fluid communication with the agitator chamber; an upright body pivotally mounted to the base and comprising a main support section supporting a cyclonic collection system comprising a cyclone separator; a suction source in fluid communication with the cyclonic collection system; and a brushroll positioned within the agitator chamber for rotational movement about a central rotational axis, the brushroll comprising:\n a brush dowel configured to be mounted for rotation about the central rotational axis, which extends longitudinally through the brush dowel, and comprising:\n opposing bristle supports defining mounting surfaces; and \n a shroud surface comprising opposing convex curved surfaces extending between the opposing bristle supports; and \n \n a plurality of bristle tufts fastened to each of the opposing bristle supports and projecting from one of the mounting surfaces; \n wherein the mounting surfaces intersect the convex curved surfaces at outside corners.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63158
- Patent Class: 15.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15249529', '14289061', '15850928', '14208381', '10117907']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8273381319429882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5010953595749856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7947138547061879
- Mean Citation Score: 287.414666
- Max Citation Score: 335.82068
- Similarity Product: 239.15797246929645

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