PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["220", "270000"]

Abstract:
An end closure for food and beverage containers is provided. The end closure comprises a central panel with a large opening defined by a score line and a safety fold positioned proximate at least a portion of said score line. The end closure further comprises a ring pull tab operably interconnected to the central panel proximate to a peripheral edge of the central panel. Prior to opening the end closure, a tail end of the ring pull tab is positioned over the tear panel. In some embodiments, the tear panel may completely detach from the end closure upon opening.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of manufacturing a metallic end closure adapted for interconnection to a neck of a container, comprising:\n providing a sheet metal material; cutting a blank from said sheet metal material; and forming said blank into said metallic end closure, wherein said metallic end closure comprises:\n a peripheral curl adapted for interconnection to said neck of said container; \n a chuck wall extending downwardly from said peripheral curl; \n a countersink interconnected to a lower end of said chuck wall; \n an inner panel wall extending upwardly from an interior portion of said countersink; \n a central panel having a perimeter and a center point which is located at an intersection of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, wherein said vertical axis and said horizontal axis form four quadrants, wherein said perimeter of said central panel is interconnected to an upper portion of said inner panel wall; \n a score line in said central panel which defines a tear panel, wherein said score line has a first substantially linear portion on a first side of said vertical axis and a second substantially linear portion on a second side of said vertical axis, wherein an upper portion of said tear panel is on a first side of said horizontal axis and a lower portion of said tear panel is on a second side of said horizontal axis, and wherein said tear panel comprises a rounded, substantially triangular shape with said upper portion having a width smaller than a width of said lower portion; \n a safety fold in said central panel and positioned proximate at least a portion of said score line; and \n a ring pull tab having a nose end opposite a tail end, wherein said ring pull tab is operably interconnected to said tear panel at an interconnection point positioned on said vertical axis between said center point and said perimeter of said central panel, wherein said interconnection point is positioned in only two of said four quadrants and is positioned proximate to said upper portion of said rounded, substantially triangular-shaped tear panel, wherein said ring pull tab is positioned in all four of said four quadrants, and wherein at least a portion of said tail end of said ring pull tab is positioned over an upper surface of said tear panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92727
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14641035', '10656421', '13838478', '14073492', '14198174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8525965554350766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5809207074559215
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8254289706371611
- Mean Citation Score: 406.151922
- Max Citation Score: 486.91727
- Similarity Product: 461.74161751415016

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

Dataset: test