PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["224", "519000"]

Abstract:
A ratchet mechanism with a pawl slidably mounted on a ratchet bar. Two fingers in the pawl on opposite sides of ratchet bar pinch the bar between them when the pawl is pivoted to a pinch angle relative to the bar. A lever on the pawl pivots the pawl to release the fingers from the ratchet bar. An over-rotation stop on the pawl contacts the ratchet bar in the release position, and prevents the pawl from pivoting past the release position to a position that drags a finger against the ratchet bar. The over-rotation stop may extend from the pawl lever, contact and slide along the ratchet bar in the release position, and maintain an ideal release position of the pawl relative to the ratchet bar during sliding of the pawl on the ratchet bar. The ratchet bar may be toothless, providing smooth selection of stopping points on the bar.

Claim (Index 14):
The ratchet mechanism of  claim 11 , wherein the pinch angle of the pawl is 5 to 15 degrees from a position of the pawl in which the fingers are directly opposed to each other across the ratchet bar on a common perpendicular to the ratchet bar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15924233', '15872065', '15942811', '15396710', '15817718']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9084492869904368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5846797892622869
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8760723372176219
- Mean Citation Score: 523.83277
- Max Citation Score: 585.8647
- Similarity Product: 434.3309670967936

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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