PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["024", "284000"]

Abstract:
An improved hose clamp having an annular band having an inner face, tensioning means, and an annular spring liner; the spring liner having a circumferential shoulder near an edge of the liner; and a central, cylindrical, flat, contact portion of smaller circumference than the shoulder, and of smaller width than the inner face of the band. The shoulder is adapted to abut the inner face and the contact portion is adapted to contact a hose or other article to be clamped.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of installing a clamp, comprising:\n positioning the clamp over a hose, the clamp including a band and a spring liner positioned on an annular inner face of the band, the spring liner comprising, a central, cylindrical contact portion having a flat surface section of smaller circumference than the shoulders of the spring liner when viewed in cross-section, and deflecting elastically the spring liner to decrease a gap defined between the annular inner face of the band and the flat surface section of the central, cylindrical contact portion of the spring liner to create a uniform zone of moderate compression in the hose.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06818
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14181892', '13188093', '15270140', '13188103', '11044939']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7427627494099871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4386930046028622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7123557749292747
- Mean Citation Score: 183.886468
- Max Citation Score: 186.53075
- Similarity Product: 150.48799629600347

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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