PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "184000"]

Abstract:
A pipe pulling technique where an adaptor is attached to the end of the pipe prior to the pipe being pulled underground, for example through a drilled hole. Attaching the adaptor to the pipe end prior to the pipe being pulled underground is faster and reduces danger to workers compared to the conventional process of attaching the adaptor to the end of the pipe after the pipe has been pulled underground.

Claim (Index 1):
A pull head that is cooperable with an adaptor attached to a pipe to pull the pipe underground from a first location to a second location, comprising:\n two shell pieces that are hinged to one another by two hinges that are spaced from one another, the two shell pieces are moveable between an open position and a closed position, the two shell pieces are cooperable with each other to surround the adaptor in the closed position of the two shell pieces, the two shell pieces include an interior surface that is configured to permit the two shell pieces to engage with a flange on the adaptor when the two shell pieces are in the closed position and when a pulling force is applied to the pull head; and a pull eye that is connected to the two shell pieces, the pull eye is connectable to a pull line that applies a pulling force to the pull head.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15010194', '15493493', '15693006', '11879345', '15348343']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7487434673784155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5256708952424562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7264362101648195
- Mean Citation Score: 227.466604
- Max Citation Score: 350.75705
- Similarity Product: 290.3368370217978

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

Dataset: test