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 13):
The spray apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the housing comprises a fill hole positioned below the opening, wherein the fill hole is covered by a flexible cover having a center, the flexible cover comprising slits that allow the cover to adopt an open configuration when a pressure is applied to the center of the cover, and to adopt a closed configuration when the pressure is removed the center of the cover.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43333
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15091458', '14852381', '14762973', '13682706', '11153743']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.809585926255517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5434170951891263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7829690431488778
- Mean Citation Score: 226.337562
- Max Citation Score: 399.7237
- Similarity Product: 379.6673921146632

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