PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150147
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "538000"]

Abstract:
An actuator for a hand operated foam dispensing pump that utilizes a folding nozzle is presented. The folding nozzle of the actuator is configured so as to lock the actuator in place and prevent operation of the pump when the nozzle is folded. The actuator substantially reduces pump closure loosening (back-off) and nozzle breakage during shipping of a filled product by eliminating trigger handles or other conventional nozzle types which protrude from the side of the actuator. As such, the new actuator is particularly well-suited for use in e-commerce where the shipping of unboxed products is becoming increasingly common. The actuator is configured such that actuator depression (actuation) cannot occur when the folding nozzle is in a folded position.

Claim (Index 11):
An actuator assembly for a hand operated pump comprising:\n an actuator having a hollow body, a nozzle having an inlet end and an outlet end with flow passage therebetween, and a closure having a hollow body; wherein the nozzle is configured to attach to the actuator and fold between an open and a closed position; wherein the actuator is configured with a curved perimeter having a recessed, front surface for receipt of the nozzle when the nozzle is in the closed position, the actuator having a closed end and an open bottom end; wherein the nozzle has a raised semi-circular portion at its outlet end, wherein the raised semi-circular portion functions as a finger tab to allow a user to pull the nozzle open from its closed position; wherein the actuator includes an internal, vertically oriented tube, the tube having a circular interior wall, a radially closed upper end and a radially open bottom end, wherein the tube further includes an opening in fluid communication with the flow passage of the nozzle at its inlet end; wherein the closure includes a curved opening configured to correspond to the curved opening of the actuator, wherein the actuator is slideably received within the curved opening of the closure; means for preventing actuator depression when the nozzle is in the closed position; means for attaching the actuator to a fluid outlet of a hand operated pump; means for attaching the closure to a hand operated pump; and means for retaining tile nozzle in tile closed position to prevent inadvertent opening of the nozzle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946436', '12123117', '16023224', '10276820', '10969801']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.738871410305542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4947502685128223
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7144592961262701
- Mean Citation Score: 206.587892
- Max Citation Score: 269.03198
- Similarity Product: 224.68090446064468

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