PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16003925
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["182", "107000"]

Abstract:
A ladder stabilizer comprises a pair of stabilizer brackets attached to the ladder side rails at the bottom on either side. Each bracket has a C-shaped clamping mechanism that utilizes a toothed gear rack which engages/disengages with mating teeth of a corresponding gear rack on the ladder rail. The gear-like engagement of the teeth provides a positive locking of the attachment member to the ladder. A spring and locking screw allow ease of adjustment and a positive lock at the desired location along the ladder side rail. The rack is attached longitudinally along the length of each rail to provide a range of length adjustment to the feet. This permits one side to be longer than the other to accommodate a laterally sloping terrain. The brackets have rotatable, laterally extending A-frames with ground-engaging feet which self-adjust to a terrain which is sloping from front-to-back or vice versa.

Claim (Index 19):
The device of  claim 16  wherein the effective front-to-back clamping width of a portion of the ladder side rail in a region adjacent the engagement features on each rail is greater than the width of other portions of the ladder side rail such that the bracket is laterally captivated to the side rail only in that region by front and a rear captivation plates each affixed to one of the front and the rear runners respectively, said plates engageable with the inward facing side of the ladder side rail to laterally captivate the bracket to the ladder in said region, said bracket having a lateral opening between the captivation plates through which portions of the ladder rail not in said region can pass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84524
- Patent Class: 182.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14536876', '10923902', '14542788', '12321056', '14581400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7219055848340604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4819616348917963
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.697911189839834
- Mean Citation Score: 172.17303
- Max Citation Score: 182.3343
- Similarity Product: 129.48633396667242

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

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