PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["180", "305000"]

Abstract:
A steerable, self-propelled cart for safely delivering heavy loads, such as concrete, within job sites with unlevel, irregular, or sloped terrain. A cargo bucket is tiltable over front drive wheels for transporting and dumping cargo. Hydraulic drive motors driven by a hydraulic pump propel rear wheels at a selectable speed. Steering handlebars rotate a steering column that turns the rear wheels. A throttle cable extending from the handlebars controls the throttle setting by pivoting a throttle lever mounted on the hydraulic pump. Limiting linkages extend from flanges on an anchor bracket secured to the steering column to a bridge on the throttle lever. As the steering column rotates, the limit linkages are wound partially about it, pivoting the throttle lever by pulling on the bridge, reducing pump speed. Heavy steering displacements will retract the throttle lever to reduce cart speed notwithstanding the previous speed setting chosen by the operator via the cable.

Claim (Index 10):
A self-propelled, steerable batch cart for delivering loads of materials, the cart comprising:\n a cargo bucket for hauling and discharging loads; hydraulically powered drive wheels; separate wheels spaced apart from said drive wheels for steering the cart; an internal combustion engine for powering the cart; a hydraulic pump driven by the internal combustion engine; at least one hydraulic motor responsive to said hydraulic pump for actuating the drive wheels; a steering system accessible from an operator position that can be grasped and turned for actuating said wheels that steer the cart; a throttle lever for controlling said hydraulic pump, the throttle lever pivotal between speed increasing and speed decreasing positions; an operator controlled cable extending to the throttle lever for selecting cart speeds; and, limit linkages extending from the steering system to the throttle lever for deflecting the throttle lever when predetermined steering limits are reached to decrease cart speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78723
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15629408', '14400197', '15092582', '15687798', '11459474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7571662043937154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953241997396977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7309820039283136
- Mean Citation Score: 190.978778
- Max Citation Score: 193.66216
- Similarity Product: 117.91614703355788

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