PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["251", "327000"]

Abstract:
A wedge guide has two wedge surfaces. The first angled surface engages a first seat retainer positioned on one side of a gate to lock the first seat retainer in a first pocket. The wedge guide has a second angled surface that engages a second seat retainer on the other side of the gate that locks the second seat retainer in a second pocket. The wedge guide does not affect the movement of the seats that move axially between the gate and the respective seat retainers. Two wedge guides are preferably utilized on opposite non-sealing sides of the gate so that the gate slides between them.

Claim (Index 20):
A wedge guide for a gate valve, comprising:\n said gate valve comprises a valve body that defines therein a flow bore through said valve body and a gate cavity that intersects said flow bore, a gate is disposed in said gate cavity across said flow bore, said gate being moveable to open and close said flow bore, said valve body defining a first pocket in said valve body on one side of said gate and a second pocket in said valve body on an opposite side of said gate, a first seat element that engages said first pocket, a second seat element that engages said second pocket; and a wedge guide, said wedge guide comprising a first angled surface that engages said first seat element to prevent movement of said first seat element with respect to said first pocket, said wedge guide comprising a second angled surface that engages said second seat element to urge said second seat element into said second pocket to prevent movement of said second seat element with respect to said second pocket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13462
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13740607', '12701258', '12248610', '10423257', '11588685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7084756425628799
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.466845784889199
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6843126567955118
- Mean Citation Score: 225.15297400000003
- Max Citation Score: 239.02129
- Similarity Product: 207.58840760483085

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