PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899350
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["030", "162000"]

Abstract:
A bent knife is provided including a handle, a cutting head, and an engaging mechanism configured to removably couple a blade to the cutting head. The blade end of the handle can be tapered up the handle to a predetermined distance. The cutting head can include a housing coupled to a base. The housing can include a recess that can be configured to hold the blade between the housing and the base. The base can include a substantially flattened and a bent portion of the blade end portion of the handle. The bent portion of the base can include a curved portion or an angled bent portion. The engaging mechanism may include a pin configured to fit within a pin hole on the housing and within a reentrant opening on the blade and a leaf spring configured to fit within a depression on the recess. In addition, a method for assembling a bent knife is described herein which can include bending a tube to form a base end and a handle end. The housing may include a recess configured to hold a blade between the housing and the base. An engaging mechanism may be included in the cutting head, the engaging mechanism configured to removably couple a blade to the housing.

Claim (Index 5):
A bent knife according to  claim 1 , wherein the housing further comprises a pin hole and a depression wherein the depression can be substantially oblong comprising of two shorter sides of substantially similar dimensions, two longer sides of substantially similar dimensions, and rounded corners wherein the spring element fits at least partially within the depression.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.21429
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11462208', '11225699', '12104338', '11895942', '13595406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8217192475541545
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799112131513447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7875384441138735
- Mean Citation Score: 175.311576
- Max Citation Score: 183.79245
- Similarity Product: 116.47346274940968

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