PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "153130"]

Abstract:
A hand pump design that utilizes an actuator with a folding nozzle suitable for use in e-commerce is presented. The folding nozzle equipped pump actuator forms part of a hand pump assembly which incorporates a pump body assembly comprising upper and lower pump bodies and a sliding collar which controls the inlet of fluid to be dispensed into fluid passages in the pump assembly and subsequently into the pump actuator. The hand pump further includes upper and lower check balls to prevent back flowing of the fluid to be dispensed into the dispenser bottle.

Claim (Index 1):
A manually operated dispensing pump comprising:\n an actuator, a chaplet, a closure, a pump body assembly, a compression spring, and a pump housing; wherein the actuator is equipped with a fluid passage in fluid communication with a nozzle and has a fully extended position, a partially depressed position, and a locked position; wherein the nozzle is foldable between a closed position which inhibits fluid flow and an open position which allows fluid flow, and wherein the nozzle is of a contrasting color to that of the actuator, whereby the nozzle acts as an eye mark; wherein the actuator and the nozzle, when the nozzle is folded, lack sharp edges, surface discontinuities or protrusions and therein reduce actuator and closure loosening caused by vibration during shipping wherein the pump body assembly is fixed to the actuator and includes a fluid passage in fluid communication with the fluid passage in the actuator and a sliding collar; the collar slidable between a closed position which prevents fluid in the pump housing from entering a fluid passage in the pump body assembly when the actuator is fully extended and an open position which allows fluid from the pump housing to enter the fluid passage in (he pump body assembly when the actuator is partially depressed; the pump housing being equipped with a check valve at a fluid inlet and wherein the compression spring is disposed in the pump housing; the compression spring engaging a piston of the pump body assembly and the housing at a position adjacent the fluid inlet, wherein the compression spring biases the actuator to the fully extended position; the closure is disposed between the pump housing and the chaplet, wherein the pump housing is fixed to the chaplet; and wherein the actuator and closure, when the nozzle is folded, lack sharp edges, surface discontinuities or protrusions and therein reduce actuator or closure loosening caused by vibration during shipping; wherein the actuator includes a screw thread engagable with a mating thread formed on the chaplet, wherein engagement of the screw threads puts the actuator into the locked position; and means to provide resistance when the actuator is locked or unlocked from the chaplet, wherein the means to provide resistance comprises nubs disposed about an interior surface of the actuator which engage with serrations disposed about an exterior surface of the chaplet,

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76364
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14689569', '11268445', '10691270', '11140707', '10669761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7785433098923923
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4712918808725009
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7478181669904032
- Mean Citation Score: 196.319672
- Max Citation Score: 202.1337
- Similarity Product: 157.2365483085036

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

Dataset: test