PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["114", "361000"]

Abstract:
A safety enclosure for a boat anchor prevents injury to persons moving about in the vicinity of the anchor when the boat is docked. The enclosure has an openable top, a bottom which is flexible along a longitudinal axis, and sides which open at each end of the opening of the top. An aft end of the enclosure defines an opening for receiving the shaft of an anchor on a boat. The enclosure is formed of a sheet of a durable, pliable material and a padding layer sufficiently strong and thick to withstand repeated flexing and continual contact with heavy, sharp metal of an anchor and to prevent serious harm to a person who movingly contacts the enclosed anchor. Such construction permits opening of the enclosure in a clamshell manner for secure, but quick, facile placement of the enclosure around a boat anchor or removal there from.

Claim (Index 4):
The safety anchor enclosure of  claim 3 , wherein the enclosure bottom has an aft edge, a forward edge, a port edge and a starboard edge, in relation to the position of the safety enclosure in normal use position enclosing the anchor of a boat, the enclosure bottom having an internal hinge extending from the aft end to the forward end along a central longitudinal axis of the enclosure bottom to facilitate longitudinal flexing of the bottom;\n and further wherein the first end of the enclosure and the second end of the enclosure are each divided longitudinally into a first/port end portion and a second/starboard end portion; the first and second end portions of each end are formed of similar sizes and shapes as the other portion of the pair; the first portion and the second portion of each of the first/aft end and the second/forward end having an upper edge, a lower edge, an inner edge, and an outer edge, the inner edges of each end portion pair being adjacent in the operative enclosure position, but selectively separable from one another; the inner edges of the first/aft end portions being substantial mirror images of each other, each defining a half of an opening, so as to form a complete opening when the first/aft end portions' inner edges are adjacent; wherein the upper edge of the first/aft end portion is connected to the aft edge of the first/port top portion, and the upper edge of the second aft end portion is connected to the aft edge of the second/starboard top portion; the lower edges of both the first and second aft end portion connect side by side to the aft edge of the enclosure bottom; the outer edge of the first aft end portion is connected to the aft edge of the port side and the outer edge of the second aft end portion is connected to the aft edge of the starboard side; wherein the upper edge of the first forward end portion is connected to the forward edge of the first/port top portion, and the upper edge of the second forward end portion is connected to the forward edge of the second/starboard top portion; the lower edges of both the first and second aft end portion connect side by side to the forward edge of the enclosure bottom; the outer edge of the first forward end portion is connected to the forward edge of the port side and the outer edge of the second forward end portion is connected to the forward edge of the starboard side; wherein the upper edge of the second/forward end portion connects to the forward edge of the second top portion, and the upper edge of the starboard side connects to the outer edge of the second top portion; the aft edge of the second top portion connects to the upper edge of the second/aft end portion; whereby the safety anchor enclosure includes one continuous selectively separable line of intersection of the two aft end portions, two top portions and two forward end portions contiguous with the internal hinge formed in the enclosure bottom, to thereby permit the safety anchor enclosure to be easily, repeatedly, and selectively opened and closed in a clamshell manner to enclose an anchor on a boat for safety at a boat dock, and to be selectively removed from the anchor when the boat is to leave the dock.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79545
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14211866', '15633727', '14212072', '11799866', '13402950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7638522737474094
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790185976822189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7353689061408903
- Mean Citation Score: 164.837888
- Max Citation Score: 169.45735
- Similarity Product: 121.12362921467422

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

Dataset: test