PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891050
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["239", "650000"]

Abstract:
An electric handheld broadcast spreader with pattern and speed controlling baffled skirt detachably attaches to a conventional spreader mechanism to disperse particles in a controlled, directional manner within a proximal coverage area with two hands. A broadcasting/dispersing skirt receives particulate material from a conventional spreader. The inner volume of broadcasting/dispersing skirt comprises upper layer baffles, with upper gaps forming between each upper layer baffle; lower layer baffles, offset from the upper layer baffles, with lower gaps forming between each lower layer baffle; and multiple vertical deflector vanes disposed perpendicular to lower layer baffles. Discharged particulate material strikes the surface of the baffles, before passing through gaps. The particulate material traveling in a lateral direction strikes the deflector vanes and outlet edge of broadcasting/dispersing skirt. This controls velocity and direction of dispersed particulate material, causing particulate material to be confined within a close pattern coverage area on ground surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A particulate material broadcasting/dispersing skirt and baffle spreader, the spreader comprising:\n a storage hopper defined by a receiving inner volume and forming an inlet aperture; a broadcasting/dispersing skirt adjacent to, and in communication with the storage hopper, the broadcast skirt being defined by a dispersing inner volume having an upper region and a lower region, the lower region terminating at an outlet edge forming an outlet aperture; multiple upper layer baffles traversing the upper region of the broadcasting/dispersing skirt, the upper layer baffles being disposed coplanar to each other, the upper layer baffles forming an upper gap between each upper layer baffle; multiple lower layer baffles traversing the lower region of the broadcasting/dispersing skirt, the lower layer baffles being disposed coplanar to each other, the lower layer baffles further being disposed in parallel, offset relationship from the upper layer baffles, the lower layer baffles forming a lower gap between each lower layer baffle; and multiple vertical deflector vanes disposed in a spaced-apart relationship from the lower layer baffles, the vertical deflector vanes being oriented perpendicular to the lower layer baffles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97561
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14798636', '15237442', '09965260', '10443702', '12614077']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7898817366586869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744354406443219
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7583371070572504
- Mean Citation Score: 189.952422
- Max Citation Score: 198.58966
- Similarity Product: 150.5469452689171

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

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