PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196371
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["056", "227000"]

Abstract:
A crop harvesting header including a pickup reel mounted for rotation about a reel axis is disclosed and includes a plurality of reel bats peripherally disposed on the reel each having a plurality of outwardly extending fingers and being rotatable about a bat axis. A cam track adjacent to and surrounding the reel axis is immobilized w.r.t. the header and includes a cam surface and a guide surface. A linkage associated with each reel bat has first and second spaced apart cam followers that engage the cam surface at respective points of contact. The cam surface causes displacement of the linkage while traversing the cam track during rotation of the reel, the linkage being coupled to cause rotation of the reel bat about the bat axis for changing an angle of attack of the fingers. A guide follower disposed for engagement of the guide surface at a third point of contact between the first and second points of contact has an offset between the guide surface and the cam surface along the cam track selected to cause each of the first and second cam followers to maintain contact with the cam surface and the guide follower to maintain contact with the guide surface while traversing the cam track.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the offset distance between the guide surface and the cam surface varies for points of contact along the cam track, the offset distance being selected to cause a generally constant loading force on each of the first and second cam followers and the guide follower while traversing the cam track.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72152
- Patent Class: 56.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14226796', '14284346', '13359099', '14814860', '14652534']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8211116517965699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498114097405538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7888118963574666
- Mean Citation Score: 283.145694
- Max Citation Score: 342.02307
- Similarity Product: 224.1681303884053

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