PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["056", "010100"]

Abstract:
A plant pushing apparatus for mounting on a reel of a combine where the reel comprises a center shaft rotatably mounted at each end thereof to the combine header, a plurality of contact members mounted to the center shaft in a horizontal orientation radially spaced from the center shaft, and a drive operative to rotate the center shaft such that the contact members below the center shaft move in a rearward direction toward the combine header. For each contact member, a projecting shield member is adapted at an inner portion thereof for attachment to the contact member such that an outer edge of the projecting shield member is substantially horizontal and rearward of the contact member, and such that the outer edge of the projecting shield member contacts plant stalks, particularly sunflower plant stalks, and pushes the plant stalks toward the combine header ahead of the following attached contact member.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the contact member comprises a horizontal finger tube with fingers pivotally mounted to the tubes, and wherein the apparatus comprises a cover configured to attach to the finger tube and cover a rear side of the fingers, and wherein the projecting shield member is adapted at the inner portion thereof for attachment to the contact member by attachment to the cover.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35821
- Patent Class: 56.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14926655', '12805300', '14226796', '13499443', '13779272']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8006478814214988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.482439287966849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7688270220760338
- Mean Citation Score: 182.217596
- Max Citation Score: 195.39583
- Similarity Product: 99.93143399946212

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

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