PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["116", "284000"]

Abstract:
A bulk material storage bin has an upright wall supporting a plurality of vertically spaced indicators providing a person with visual information regarding the level of the bulk material in the bin. The indicators have bright color and dark color surfaces that are selectively displayed to provide a person with information of the level of bulk material in the bin. An actuator located in the bin cooperates with a motion transmission apparatus to move visual members to an ON position displaying the bright color when the bulk material engages the actuator and to an OFF position displaying the dark color when the actuator is free of bulk material. The motion transmission apparatus includes a rod movably retained on an O-ring held on a mount device secured to the side wall of the bin. A yoke supporting an endless flexible member mounted on the rod is connected to the visual members whereby movement of the rod moves the visual members between the ON and OFF positions.

Claim (Index 9):
An indicator for providing information to a person regarding the level of material located within a bin having an upright wall comprising:\n a housing having an internal chamber, a pair of generally cylindrical visual members having first portions and second portions spaced from the first portions, a first color on the first portions of the visual members, said second portions of the visual members having a second color, said first and second colors being visually contrasting colors, a light transparent member joined to the housing enclosing the visual members within the internal chamber of the housing, a boss adapted to be mounted on the upright wall of the bin, an actuator adapted to be located within the bin for movement from a first position to a second position and from the second position back to the first position, a motion transmission apparatus connecting the actuator to the visual members, said motion transmission apparatus having a member for rotating the visual members, a rod having a first section connected to the member and a second section connected to the actuator, a torus mounted on the boss, said second section of the rod extending through the torus to the actuator whereby movement of the actuator from a first position to a second position moves the visual members to locate the first color adjacent the transparent member and movement of the actuator from the second position to the first position moves the visual members to locate the second color of the visual members adjacent the transparent member whereby the first color and second color of the visual members are separate, visible by a person located remote from the bin to provide the person with information regarding the level of material in the bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17949
- Patent Class: 116.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14820706', '13781342', '11934038', '13781406', '12505064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6945583764605681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5502240322384615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6801249420383574
- Mean Citation Score: 230.181878
- Max Citation Score: 465.79807
- Similarity Product: 419.64847863133554

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