PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["156", "073100"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a tool  10  of the invention for welding a PET gland  12  onto a PET bottle  14  for the fitment of a dispensing tap. The tool  10  is generically indicated as ultrasonic horn or sonotrode in the figure. The ultrasonic horn has a tapered serrated portion  16  which has a lead-in taper section  18  to initiate the melt of the plastics to be welded, and a knife section  20  (when required), being the cutting zone thereof, which in use cuts open a sealed spigot  22  so that the horn can enter into the spigot  24  for the welding operation.

Claim (Index 16):
A method as claimed in  claim 15 , which includes independently adjusting the rate at which the tapered portion of the welding tool is urged into the spigot opening and the rate at which the cutting tool portion rate is displaced.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5493
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14893667', '13857604', '10398939', '14893324', '12593348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8888710900786866
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4710658291526414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8470905639860821
- Mean Citation Score: 115.6252838
- Max Citation Score: 125.106964
- Similarity Product: 86.83841686246157

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test