PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16284403
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["294", "185000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to an operating device for a tube lifter having a lifting tube that has a tube interior and can be shortened by applying a vacuum to the tube interior, and having a suction grip device arranged on one end of the tube lifter, which suction grip device can be supplied with a vacuum through the tube interior, the operating device having a suction port for fluid communication with the suction grip device, a lifting tube port for fluid communication with the tube interior of the lifting tube, and valve means for controlling the fluid communications, the valve means including a control valve which is adjustable between a closed position and an open position, in the open position a flow path from the surroundings to the lifting tube port being open, and in the closed position said flow path being substantially closed, and a control mechanism comprising a manually actuable operating element being provided for adjusting the control valve.

Claim (Index 6):
Operating device according to  claim 1 ,\n characterized in that the operating device is arranged between a lower end of the lifting tube and an upper end of the suction grip device, and in that the rod extends substantially in parallel with the extension of the lifting tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55224
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16281234', '12438260', '15041760', '11403132', '14804812']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7463232071947349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140095387253392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7230918403477954
- Mean Citation Score: 199.34507
- Max Citation Score: 312.518
- Similarity Product: 225.13956159687044

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

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