PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["220", "231000"]

Abstract:
A sheet metal lid has a rim portion removably secured and sealed to a container and the lid includes a vent button having a top wall portion surrounded by a side wall portion and an outwardly projecting flange portion. The flange portion of the button has a short arcuate score or shear line extending substantially into the sheet metal, and additional score lines extend into the flange portion at lesser depths to protect a coating on the inner surface of the lid. A resilient sealant material may be bonded to the inner surface of the vent button, and the opposing sheet metal portions of the score line form a small gap for releasing a vacuum or pressure from the container in response to a controlled downward pressure on the top wall portion of the vent button.

Claim (Index 20):
An aluminum sheet metal lid having a vertical axis and including a top wall and a peripheral rim portion with a bonded sealant material, and adapted to be releasably secured to a container receiving a vacuum or pressure enclosed product, the lid comprising,\n a portion of the top wall defining a vent button having a top wall portion, a surrounding side wall portion with an outwardly projecting flange portion extending around the side wall portion below the top wall of the lid, the flange portion having a first arcuate score line projecting into the flange portion adjacent the side wall portion of the button and extending substantially into the thickness of the sheet metal forming the flange portion, the first arcuate score line including a V-shape portion extending less than seventy degrees relative to the vertical axis, and the first score line being effective to rupture without rupturing the second score line in response to a predetermined downward pressure on the top wall portion of the vent button to define a small narrow gap along the first score line for releasing vacuum or pressure from the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95833
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15186997', '15696204', '11444463', '15124408', '14075622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8295238503269446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342699081809453
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7999984561123448
- Mean Citation Score: 232.669336
- Max Citation Score: 399.67963
- Similarity Product: 317.9280092849898

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

Dataset: test