PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056942
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["222", "207000"]

Abstract:
A dispenser has a body with a variable-volume storage chamber for storing substance, and a dispensing portion defining a dosage chamber in fluid communication with the storage chamber. A first valve includes a valve seat and a flexible valve cover seated thereon defining a normally-closed fluid-tight seam therebetween. The valve cover relative to moves from the valve seat to allow substance through the seam and out of the dispenser. A second valve allows substance from the storage chamber into the dosage chamber and substantially prevents flow from the dosage chamber into the storage chamber. An actuator is manually movable between (i) a first non-actuated position, and (ii) a second actuated position extending into the dosage chamber for compressing a dose of substance therein, dispensing substance through the first valve. The elasticity of the actuator causes it to return to the first non-actuated position upon manually releasing the actuator.

Claim (Index 31):
A dispenser for dispensing a substance, comprising:\n first means for forming a variable-volume storage chamber for storing the substance; second means for forming a dosage chamber coupled in fluid communication with the storage chamber for receiving substance therefrom, and an outlet aperture coupled in fluid communication with the dosage chamber; third means for forming an external portion of the dispenser and for forming a normally-closed, seam defining an interference fit and coupled in fluid communication with the second means and movable in response to the flow of pressurized substance from the second means into the seam to allow the passage of substance through the seam and out of the dispenser; fourth means coupled in fluid communication between the dosage chamber and the storage chamber for allowing the flow of substance from the storage chamber into the dosage chamber and substantially preventing the flow of substance from the dosage chamber into the storage chamber; and fifth means for engaging and elastically moving between (i) a first non-actuated position, and (ii) a second actuated position for compressing a dose of substance within the dosage chamber and, in turn, dispensing the substance through the third means, for being actuated in a direction between the first non-actuated position and the second actuated position that is transverse to an axis of the third means and for elastically returning from the second actuated position to the first non-actuated position upon releasing the fifth means.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11938144', '13419352', '10893686', '11810008', '13362532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8381310415945902
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5719051627838561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8115084537135168
- Mean Citation Score: 394.386164
- Max Citation Score: 472.22528
- Similarity Product: 468.7083348324583

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

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