PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["414", "745400"]

Abstract:
A rod handling assembly  10  has a surface engagement mechanism  12  capable of engaging an exposed surface of a drill rod R and a holding mechanism  14  coupled to the surface engagement mechanism  12.  The system  10  and more particularly the mechanisms  12  and  14  engage and hold the rod R from a location radially adjacent a circumferential surface of the rod R inboard of its opposite ends, rather than from an end of the rod R. The surface engagement mechanism  12  is a distributed mechanism having two parts  12 a  and  12 b  that act at axially spaced locations on the rod R. The holding mechanism  14  is located and operates on the rod R between these axially spaced locations. The surface engagement mechanism  12  initially operates to engage the surface of the rod R which may for example be lying on a rod tray, to enable the rod to be lifted from a tray. Thereafter the holding mechanism  14  is operable to support and hold the rod.

Claim (Index 3):
The rod handling assembly according to  claim 1  wherein the surface engagement mechanism is arranged engage the rod at two or more axially spaced locations along the rod.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30263
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13887495', '15327363', '14891532', '14255201', '14584877']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8408448541137362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5374125642083154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8105016251231941
- Mean Citation Score: 210.51017
- Max Citation Score: 390.39398
- Similarity Product: 384.4639166430581

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

Dataset: test