PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["124", "051100"]

Abstract:
A toy projectile launcher for launching projectiles, e.g, toy foam darts, from a hopper. One or more agitating members inside the hopper to enable the projectiles to drop into a firing chamber under the hopper. A hopper cover has a collapsible ceiling with nested members and a ceiling plate to maintain the projectiles toward the bottom of the hopper. A catch coupled to the ceiling plate engages an opening in a hopper wall to prevent the ceiling from collapsing when the hopper cover is closed. Where there are multiple vertically spaced-apart openings in the hopper wall, the catch may disengage from a first opening, and then engage a lower, second opening in the hopper wall, as the number of projectiles in the hopper drops and the ceiling plate descends in the hopper. A rotating track and a push rod advance projectiles from the firing chamber to flywheels for launch.

Claim (Index 1):
A toy projectile launcher, comprising:\n a housing defining an interior recess; and a hopper coupled to the interior recess of the housing, the hopper configured to house one or more projectiles and to provide the one or more projectiles to the housing to be launched from the housing, wherein the hopper comprises: a first wall and a front wall; an agitating member coupled to the first wall and configured to cause the one or more projectiles to move within the hopper; a cover having an underside which faces into the hopper; a plurality of openings in the first wall or the front wall, wherein the openings are spaced apart from one another and extend in substantial alignment from an upper position to a lower position on one of the first or front walls; a ceiling comprising a ceiling plate that is collapsibly attached to the underside of the cover and is expandable downward from the cover into the hopper when the cover is closed; and a catch coupled to the ceiling plate and configured to engage with at least a first opening of the plurality of openings when the hopper is loaded with a first amount of the one or more projectiles to prevent the cover from collapsing back into the underside of the cover when the cover is closed onto the hopper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15850130', '14223208', '12203704', '10945795', '11852760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7185693463046713
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6057184337735536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7072842550515595
- Mean Citation Score: 359.187548
- Max Citation Score: 591.8552
- Similarity Product: 515.15073763237

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

Dataset: test