PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["239", "684000"]

Abstract:
An improved spray apparatus designed to optimize the pattern of the texture material and the performance of the spray apparatus to look and perform similar to a hopper texture gun or texture spray rig used by professionals. The spray apparatus, has a housing defining a cavity. A transfer wheel is rotatably mounted to the housing, the transfer wheel having a hub defining a hub axis, and a plurality of transfer flaps. A propeller is rotatably mounted to the housing and positioned above the transfer wheel, the propeller having a spindle and a plurality of fins. A firing pin is attached to the housing above the propeller. An actuator is mounted to the housing to cause the propeller to rotate. A gate may be provided to control the flow of the material to the transfer wheel.

Claim (Index 2):
The spray apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the transfer wheel, the propeller, and the firing pin are positioned relative to each other such that actuation of the actuator causes the propeller to rotate in a first direction, rotation of the propeller causes a first fin to abut against the transfer wheel causing the transfer wheel to rotate in a second direction opposite the first direction, while a second fin abuts against the firing pin causing the second fin to bend in the second direction until further rotation causes the second fin to abruptly spring back in the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43333
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15091458', '14852381', '14762973', '13682706', '11153743']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8267851091006571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5467122848042554
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7987778266710168
- Mean Citation Score: 226.337562
- Max Citation Score: 399.7237
- Similarity Product: 398.6166056425155

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