PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["108", "054100"]

Abstract:
Pallet adapters configured to attach to a selected pallet type in order to render it compatible with a cargo restraint system that is configured for a larger pallet type. The pallet adapters may include two side rails and two end rails, each rail having a slotted inner face to receive the flanges at the sides and ends of the selected pallet type. Each end of the side rails has a connector that can be coupled by a single fastener to a connector on each end of the end rails so that when connected, the side rails and end rails form a rectangular-shaped pallet adapter with inner slots that secure the flanged side edges of the selected pallet type.

Claim (Index 1):
A pallet adapter, comprising:\n a first side rail and a second side rail, each side rail having an inner face and an outer face, wherein the inner face of each side rail defines a slot running a length of the inner face that is configured to engage a flanged side edge of a selected pallet type; and a first end rail and a second end rail, each end rail having an inner face and an outer face, wherein the inner face of each end rail defines a slot running a width of the inner face that is configured to engage a flanged end edge of the selected pallet type; wherein each end of each side rail and each end of each end rail is equipped with either a clevis or a clevis tang of a clevis fastener, such that when the side rails and end rails are assembled alternately and end-to-end to form a rectangle, each corner of the rectangle includes both the clevis and the clevis tang of the clevis fastener, and each corner can be secured by a single clevis pin to form a rectangular adapter that is configured to enfold, receive, and secure the flanged side edges of the selected pallet type; wherein the clevis fastener at each corner of the rectangular pallet adapter is a pivotable connection, so that a removal of any single clevis pin enables the pallet adapter to unfold and become removable from a pallet secured by the adapter, without requiring the disconnection of all four corner clevis fasteners.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89231
- Patent Class: 108.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15274716', '14513706', '14596364', '16017297', '11270356']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.698545791553097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.502084684027296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.678899680800517
- Mean Citation Score: 203.973242
- Max Citation Score: 218.0164
- Similarity Product: 160.29086555027962

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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