PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16366785
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["239", "526000"]

Abstract:
A spray gun includes a valve cartridge configured to be axially installed and removed as a single piece. The valve cartridge includes the wear components of the spray gun. A trigger of the spray gun is configured to actuate a slider of the valve cartridge to control spraying by the spray gun. The trigger includes arms that are mounted to the spray gun by a pivot mechanism. The pivot mechanism can be disengaged from the arms to allow the trigger to slide between a spray position, where the trigger prevents forward axial movement of the valve cartridge, and a repair position, where the valve cartridge can move axially forward. The trigger also includes upper and lower portions that are movable relative to each other, such that the length of the trigger can be adjusted.

Claim (Index 24):
A method of installation, the method comprising:\n aligning a valve cartridge with a spray axis of a spray gun body, the spray gun body including a front end, a back end, and a void disposed between the front end and the back end; shifting the valve cartridge axially along the spray axis, such that the valve cartridge extends into a bore aligned along the spray axis and extending through the front end to the void, wherein the bore includes a chamber, and such that a slider of the valve cartridge extends out of the bore across the void and into a cavity aligned on the spray axis and extending into the back end and such that a side bore through the valve cartridge is disposed in the chamber to receive spray fluid from the chamber; and securing the valve cartridge within the spray gun body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32258
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16366802', '15804783', '15248841', '13042014', '12178229']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8376056514354839
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5383871642611393
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8076838027180495
- Mean Citation Score: 302.77586
- Max Citation Score: 425.42474
- Similarity Product: 327.25196122137544

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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