PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867862
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["114", "048000"]

Abstract:
A system for conveying a barge over a levee in a level attitude providing for safety and avoidance of damage to the barge, the levee, and of persons, where a barge is to be conveyed from a waterway, over a levee, through a floodgate in a floodwall, and into a maintenance building, and the reverse operation, by placing a barge in a drydock, resting on support blocks, aligning the drydock with the floodgate, placing level-raising tractors with tractor controllers underneath the barge, raising the barge off of the support blocks, and rolling and lifting the barge over the levee while keeping the barge in a level attitude, optionally under the additional control of a person using a hand-remote tractor controller.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for conveying a barge over a levee in a level attitude, between a waterway and a maintenance building separated by a levee, the system for conveying a barge over a levee, said method for conveying a barge over a levee in a level attitude comprising:\n (i) providing a system for conveying a barge over a levee in a level attitude, said system comprising:\n (a) a drydock having a submerged position and a floating position, said drydock adapted to move the barge from a water level to a land level and to turn the barge to and from a position in line with a path to the maintenance building; \n (b) a plurality of support blocks arrayed upon said drydock, said plurality of support blocks adapted to support the underside of the barge along the sides of the barge, leaving the medial underside of the barge unblocked; \n (c) at least one level-raising tractor having a plurality of ranks of wheels, and further having a tractor bed, said ranks of wheels being adapted to extend from and retract toward said tractor bed independently one rank from another; and \n (d) a tractor controller for each said level-raising tractor, adapted to control the extension and retraction of said ranks of wheels so as to keep said tractor bed level and to keep different said tractor beds level each with the other; \n (ii) floating said barge in the waterway onto said drydock, where said drydock is then raised so that the barge is supported by said support blocks, and turned to a position in line with a path to the maintenance building; (iii) rolling said level-raising tractors under the barge; (iv) raising the barge off of said support blocks with said level-raising tractors with said tractor controllers, and rolling the barge over the levee and toward the maintenance building while still keeping the barge in a level attitude by extending or retracting each said rank of wheels so as to conform to the slopes of the levee and to raise the barge to a height sufficient to clear the crest of the levee; (v) further rolling the barge into the maintenance building and lowering the barge onto a second set of said support blocks with said level-raising tractors with said tractor controllers; and (vi) rolling said level-raising tractors out from under the barge; and where, in use, the claimed operations are repeated in reverse to convey the barge back into said waterway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10938
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11588641', '11906058', '11906057', '11370074', '14121467']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7113994330679695
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4884477015722899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6891042599184015
- Mean Citation Score: 184.353114
- Max Citation Score: 215.01636
- Similarity Product: 167.76742759238718

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

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