PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894029
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["137", "613000"]

Abstract:
Severe service industrial valves having at least one valve ball and seat that can be repaired or replaced while the valve remains connected in-line with inlet and outlet pipe lines.

Claim (Index 1):
An industrial valve comprising a monolithic metal housing body having an inlet, an outlet, and a circular bore extending along an axis in the body, the inlet and outlet being configured to be connected to respective pipes, the bore being closed by a cover releasably bolted to the body, a distal portion of the bore forming a valve ball cavity, a valve ball in the cavity having a hole passing through the center of the valve ball, a downstream valve component between the cover and the valve ball, the downstream valve component having a valve seat engaged with the valve ball, the inlet being connected by a passage in the body to the ball cavity on a side of the valve ball opposite the seat, the downstream valve component having an interior passage connected to the valve seat and having a side port, a stem extending from the ball valve cavity to the exterior of the body for rotating the valve ball, a second circular bore in the body extending from an outer surface of the body and forming a second valve ball cavity, a cover closing the second bore, a second valve seat at the second cavity inner end, a multiple orifice valve ball in the second cavity, the multiple orifice valve ball having an inlet port along an axis of the multi-orifice ball, and multiple outlet orifices distributed circumferentially about said ball axis, a valve stem extending from the second cavity out of the body for rotating the multi-orifice valve ball about the valve axis, the ball inlet being connected to the side port of the downstream valve component and the orifices being selectively connected to the second valve seat, the second valve seat being connected to the outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.06897
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14746978', '15789261', '14540833', '10352329', '11556847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8272597276775002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953159331942465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.794065348229175
- Mean Citation Score: 205.24577600000003
- Max Citation Score: 305.23724
- Similarity Product: 249.1913864657235

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

Dataset: test